Fortnite performance guide: best settings, fps boost, and more

Fortnite continues to be one of the most popular games in the world, with a strong competitive scene, and like any competitive game, players want every possible advantage they can get. One of the best ways to improve your chances of winning is to tweak the game’s settings so it runs at higher frame rates, lowering your input lag and helping you to react faster.

Fortnite is a slightly more demanding esport than some of its older rivals, but that just means there’s more scope for performance improvements if you select the right settings. Here are the most important performance-enhancing tweaks you can make to Fortnite.

The best settings for Fortnite

We played around with Fortnite’s settings to find the most optimized Fortnite settings for the best performance and clarity. As this is a competitive game, the focus of tweaking settings is mostly designed to make the game run as fast as possible without making it look so terrible that it’s a distraction. We also considered turning down any settings that might make it harder to spot your opponents. Immersion isn’t as important when you’re trying your best to win.

Since there’s some element of personal preference with in-game settings, I’ll also include a few nods to settings that I just can’t do with, or without, but you can do with those what you will.

Window mode: Fullscreen
Resolution: Set to your monitor’s native resolution, probably 1920 x 1080 or 2560 x 1440
VSync: Off
Frame rate limit: Unlimited, or match it to your monitor’s refresh rate
Rendering mode: DirectX 12 or Performance
Anti-aliasing and super resolution: FXAA or off, depending on your preferences
Temporal Super Resolution: N/A
3D resolution: 100%
View distance: Medium
Shadows: Off
Global Illumination: Off
Textures: Low
Effects: Low
Post processing: Off
Hardware ray tracing: Off
Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: On + Boost if you have an Nvidia GPU
DLSS: On if you have an Nvidia GPU