Welcome to our article on the best settings to improve your performance in Apex Legends on Windows 11. As a dedicated gamer, you know the importance of having the best possible setup for your gaming experience. Whether you're a seasoned player or a newcomer to the game, optimizing your settings can make a significant difference in your gameplay.

Apex Legends is a popular battle royale game that has gained a massive following since its release in 2019. The game's intense and fast-paced action requires quick reflexes and precise movements, making it crucial to have the right settings to maximize your performance.

In this article, we'll explore the various settings you can adjust in Apex Legends to enhance your gameplay experience. From optimizing your graphics settings to tweaking your mouse sensitivity, we'll cover everything you need to know to get the most out of your game.

Apex Legends Gameplay Settings

Open up Apex Legends and navigate to your settings. In the Gameplay tab, you can adjust these first settings to your liking, such as Streamer Mode, if you wish player names to be anonymized. Below, Disable the Usage Sharing option, which can reduce network lag while in-game. You should enable the Performance Display setting, as it will show computer and network performance data in the top-right corner of the screen during a match. You can also use another FPS (frame rate) counter, such as the one from Steam, to troubleshoot performance issues. Before making changes to your video settings, look at the Accessibility settings. These can be optimized for Color Blind users, or those with poor eyesight.

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Best Apex Legends Video Settings

After applying your Gameplay Settings, navigate to the Video tab. You will want to play Apex Legends in Fullscreen mode to improve your overall performance while in-game. Set the Aspect Ratio and Resolution settings to your native monitor resolution. In many cases, this will be 16:9 and a resolution of 1920x1080. If you have performance issues after applying your Video settings, you might want to reduce the Resolution setting to 1600x900, for example. This will improve your performance, but the visual quality will also reduce. The Brightness setting will have no impact on your framerate, as well as your Field of View, FOV Ability Scaling, and the Sprint View Shake option. In some rare cases, an increased FOV will reduce your performance but should not be highly impacted. Enabling the FOV Ability Scaling option will make the game more immersive, but we dislike the Normal Sprint View Shake option as it’s shaking a bit too much.

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Advanced Apex Legends Video Settings

In your Advanced Video Settings, disable V-Sync if you have low FPS while in-game, as it will dramatically increase your input lag. For users with a high-end PC, running the game at over 144 FPS, set the option to Adaptive. This will ensure the game locks the framerate to your monitor's refresh rate while reducing Screen Tearing.

For decent NVIDIA graphics cards, enable the NVidia Reflex setting to reduce latency while in-game. The Adaptive Resolution FPS Target setting will ensure the game tries to maintain the FPS target, in my case 100, while reducing the Render Resolution if needed while in-game. Lower the resolution setting above if the game fails to maintain the target framerate.

Adaptive Supersampling will do the opposite. This setting will raise the Render Resolution if you have some performance to spare while in-game. We prefer to disable this setting. If the Anti-Aliasing option is not greyed out, we suggest disabling it entirely. In some cases, this setting will make the game look very washed out and blurry when enabled. Below, set the Texture Streaming Budget option to about two-thirds of your GPU’s entire video RAM if you have no major applications running in the background while in-game. We believe 6GB of VRAM is a decent value, but you might need to reduce it to two or three.

This will come down to how well the game runs on your system and how much VRAM you have to spare. If you don’t care much about perfect image quality and are more about the game’s performance, then set the Texture Filtering option to Bilinear, which will show fewer details when playing Apex Legends and will reduce the VRAM budget needed.

For more details, set this option to Anisotropic 2x or 4x. The same goes for the Ambient Occlusion Quality, Sun Shadow Coverage, Sun Shadow Detail, Spot Shadow Detail, Volumetric Lighting, Dynamic Spot Shadows, and the other detail options below.

We prefer to lower the shadow and lighting settings to a minimum and set the Model Detail setting to High. Shadows are less important to me and can drastically reduce your GPU’s performance, depending on your system. The Model Detail option will change your and other characters' model quality.

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Apex Legends: Optimized Audio Settings

In your Audio Settings, adjust the Master Volume to an appropriate value. In my opinion, you should be able to reduce the intro sound of the game, as it’s always too loud. Below, optimize your Voice Chat settings by setting the Incoming Voice Chat Volume option to 100%. Your Open Mic Record Threshold option should only be set to a high value when using the Open Mic Voice Chat Record Mode. After applying your settings, you should notice an increase in performance.