Best PC settings for Apex Legends Season 17

Apex Legends is a competitive experience, so players often prioritize performance elements like FPS over graphics quality. Here are the best PC settings for Apex Legends that can improve the game’s FPS and save you from experiencing lag.

Apex Legends is a competitive game where players will want to gain an advantage over their opponents by optimizing their settings, especially on PC.

With all the settings available for players to customize on PC it can be quite daunting. However, one thing that’s important in all competitive first-person shooters is a steady high FPS.

Professional Apex players and streamers spend thousands of dollars building PCs to give them the best performance. Using the optimal settings for your rig, you don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars to get a smooth FPS in Apex Legends Season 17.

• Apex Legends minimum and recommended PC requirements
• Best Apex Legends PC settings for high-end hardware
• Best Apex Legends PC settings for low-end hardware
• How to get uncapped FPS without enabling V-sync in Apex Legends
• Optimize your Discord to boost FPS in Apex Legends
• How to update graphics drivers for Apex Legends
  • NVIDIA
  • AMD

Apex Legends minimum and recommended PC requirements

Minimum:

• OS – 64-bit Windows 7
• CPU – Intel Core i3-6300 3.8GHz / AMD FX-4350 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Processor
• RAM – 6GB
• GPU – NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 / Radeon HD 7730
• GPU RAM – 1 GB
• HARD DRIVE – Minimum 56 GB of free space

Recommended

• OS – 64-bit Windows 7
• CPU – Intel i5 3570K or equivalent
• RAM – 8GB
• GPU – Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290
• GPU RAM – 8GB
• HARD DRIVE – Minimum 56 GB of free space

For more information on the topic, you can check out our detailed guide on Apex Legends PC requirements.

Best Apex Legends PC settings for high-end hardware

If your PC is powerful enough to handle good-quality graphics and grant 60+ FPS consistently, we recommend these Apex Legends settings:

• Display Mode – Full Screen
• Aspect Ratio – Native monitor resolution (probably 16:9, 1080p)
• Resolution – Native monitor resolution.
• Field of View – Personal preference
• Color Blind Mode – Personal preference
• V-Sync – Enabled
• Adaptive Resolution FPS Target – Set to 0
• Adaptive Supersampling – Greyed out
• Anti-Aliasing – On
• Texture Streaming Budget – Medium
• Texture Filtering – Anisotropic 2X
• Ambient Occlusion Quality – Medium
• Sun Shadow Coverage – High
• Sun Shadow Detail – High
• Spot Shadow Detail – High
• Volumetric Lighting – Enabled
• Dynamic Spot Shadows – Enabled
• Model Detail – Medium
• Effects Detail – High
• Impact Marks – High
• Ragdolls – High

Some settings will significantly influence your game’s FPS more than others, such as Ambient Occlusion Quality.

Best Apex Legends PC settings for low-end hardware

Apex Legends players with low-end hardware can tweak their settings this way to get more FPS:

• Display Mode – Full Screen
• Aspect Ratio – Native monitor resolution (probably 16:9, 1080p)
• Resolution – Native monitor resolution.
• Field of View – Personal preference
• Color Blind Mode – Personal preference
• V-Sync – Disabled
• Adaptive Resolution FPS Target – Set to 0
• Adaptive Supersampling – Greyed out
• Anti-Aliasing – Off
• Texture Streaming Budget – Medium or lower
• Texture Filtering – Anisotropic 2X
• Ambient Occlusion Quality – Medium or lower
• Sun Shadow Coverage – Low
• Sun Shadow Detail – Low
• Spot Shadow Detail – Low
• Volumetric Lighting – Disabled
• Dynamic Spot Shadows – Disabled
• Model Detail – Medium or lower
• Effects Detail – Medium or lower
• Impact Marks – Medium or lower
• Ragdolls – Medium or lower

The easiest way to get higher FPS is to turn everything to the lowest possible quality settings, but targeting enemies is more obscure.

How to get uncapped FPS without enabling V-sync in Apex Legends

Here’s how you can get unlimited FPS in Apex Legends through Origin or Steam:

1. Open Origin or Steam
2. Right-click Apex Legends in your Game Library and right-click on Apex Legends
3. Select ‘Game Properties’ on Origin or choose ‘Properties’ on Steam
4. Head to ‘Game Properties’
5. Visit the Advanced Launch Options on Origin or the General tab on Steam
6. Type “+fps_max unlimited” under Command line arguments (Origin) or Launch Options (Steam)

Optimize your Discord to boost FPS in Apex Legends

Discord is commonly used by the Apex Legends community to communicate with their teammates in the middle of a match. While it works great, you can further optimize it to improve the FPS on Apex. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Open Discord.
2. Head to the Settings menu.
3. Click the Overlay tab and ensure ‘Enable in-game overlay’ is unchecked.

You can also turn off Hardware Acceleration, which is at the bottom of the Appearance tab. This will keep Discord from using your graphics card to accelerate the software’s speed and grant you a few more FPS in-game.

How to update graphics drivers for Apex Legends

To run Apex Legends smoothly, it is important to always have the latest version of your PC’s graphics drivers. Here’s how to update them manually:

How to update NVIDIA graphics driver

Follow these steps to update your NVIDIA graphics driver:

1. Download GeForce Experience through the official website and install it.
2. Launch GeForce experience.
3. Select Drivers > Check for updates.
4. Follow the on-screen prompts to initiate and finalize the update.

How to update AMD graphics driver

Follow these steps to update your AMD graphics driver:

1. Download the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition from the official website and install it.
2. Launch AMD Software: Adrenaline Edition.
3. Go to the Home tab and click on Check for Updates from the top-right corner of the screen.
4. Download and install the update by following the on-screen prompts.

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We hope this guide improves your experience while playing Apex Legends. We have similar settings guides to improve the FPS in other major games such as Warzone 2, Overwatch 2, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Fortnite, and XDefiant.

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