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.
