Adjust your Apex Legends settings to improve your game’s performance and better battle your opponents in the Ring.
If you’re new to playing Apex Legends and need help choosing your video settings, use these suggestions as a starting point.
To increase FPS in Apex Legends, you’ll want to lower the majority of your Video settings without sacrificing your ability to spot enemies. If you’re unsure where to start, try lowering a few options at a time to see how it impacts FPS.
If you don’t see a setting listed here, it’s because it won’t impact your game performance.
Apex Legends Video Settings
All the options above Advanced are based on personal preference. Here’s what we recommend as a starting point.
- Display Mode: Full Screen if you have one monitor, Windowed if you have more than one.
- Aspect Ratio: Set to monitor default.
- Resolution: Set to monitor default.
- Brightness: You can increase this slightly to improve visibility.
- Field of View: 90–110.
- Sprint View Shake: Minimal, or personal preference.
Advanced
- V-Sync: Disabled unless you're experiencing screen tearing.
- NVidia Reflex: Enabled if you have a NVidia GPU.
- Adaptive Resolution FPS Target: Disabled unless you're having frequent drops in FPS.
- Adaptive Supersampling: Increase if you have settings turned down so low that you think the game looks bad.
- Anti-aliasing: None.
- Texture Streaming Budget: Low or Medium.
- Texture Filtering: Bilinear Filtering.
- Ambient Occlusion Quality: Disabled.
- Sun Shadow Coverage: Low.
- Sun Shadow Detail: Low.
- Spot Shadow Detail: Low.
- Volumetric Lighting: Disabled.
- Dynamic Spot Shadows: Disabled.
- Model Detail: Low.
- Effects Detail: Low.
- Impact Marks: Low or Disabled.
- Ragdolls: Low.
Apex Legends Mouse/Keyboard Settings
- Mouse Sensitivity: 3.0–5.0, or personal preference.
- ADS Mouse Sensitivity Multiplier: 1.0.
- Mouse Acceleration: Off.
- Mouse Invert: Personal preference.
- Lighting Effects: Personal preference.
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