Fortnite is a game that scales exceptionally with your PC hardware. Depending on your rig, you can squeeze a lot of performance even with the game’s most demanding graphical features on.
To make things simpler for you, here’s our guide on the best graphics settings for Fortnite on PC.
Fortnite Graphics Settings For High-End PCs
If you are on a high-end PC, you can naturally have the best of both worlds: visual fidelity and high FPS. While you want to have as much FPS as your PC can deliver on a competitive game like Fortnite, the tradeoff is minimal except for a few options like raytracing and Lumen.
Display
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: Should be set to your monitor’s native resolution
- Frame Rate Limit: Unlimited
Graphics Quality
- 3D Resolution: 100%
- View Distance: Epic
- Shadows: Off
- Anti-Aliasing: High
- Textures: Medium
- Effects: High
- Post-processing: High
Advanced Graphics
- V-Sync: Off
- Motion Blur: Off
- Rendering Mode: DIRECTX11
- Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
- Ray Tracing: On
This is based on the game’s preset medium settings with a few options changed. However, you can certainly make your own tweaks depending on your preferences.
While Fortnite looks noticeably prettier with raytracing, the FPS hit (depending on your rig) might be a dealbreaker for most of you. I recommend turning it on for a few matches and decide for yourself whether you really want it.
Fortnite Graphics Settings For Low-End PCs
As I have mentioned earlier, Fortnite scales wonderfully with your hardware—which means, the game is still very performant on low-end PC hardware. You can check out the minimum, recommended, and epic quality system requirements on the official Fortnite website.
Given your PC matches the recommended requirements for Fortnite, you can still achieve playable FPS numbers with our settings below:
Display
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: Should be set to your monitor’s native resolution
- Frame Rate Limit: Unlimited
Graphics Quality
- 3D Resolution: 100%
- View Distance: Epic
- Shadows: Off
- Anti-Aliasing: Off
- Textures: Low
- Effects: Low
- Post-processing: Low
Advanced Graphics
- V-Sync: Off
- Motion Blur: Off
- Rendering Mode: DIRECTX11
- Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost
- Ray Tracing: Off
Should I Use Fortnite Performance Mode?
If your PC barely meets Fortnite’s minimum system requirement, the Performance Mode is your last option to try.
How Do I Turn On Performance Mode In Fortnite?
- Open Settings in the game.
- Scroll down to Rendering Mode.
- Select Performance (Alpha).
- Restart Fortnite.
As the associated tooltip suggests, Performance Mode is an experimental new feature that lowers visual quality to reduce memory usage and puts a much lesser load on your CPU and GPU.
