Manor Lords performance guide: best settings, recommended specs, and more

Manor Lords is the most wish-listed game on Steam at the time of this writing, and from my early impressions, it’s an excellent medieval village management simulator. It’s like Banished, but taken up a notch. But as impressive and fun as it is already, it’s still an Early Access game, which means getting it to run at its best requires a little finesse with the settings.

But you don’t need to spend hours painstakingly adjusting your seeings and benchmarking the game, because we’ve done that for you! After our rigorous testing, we’ve found the best settings for Manor Lords to give you peak performance so you can enjoy the grubby details of this dark ages setting.

The best settings for Manor Lords

Manor Lords is an immersive single-player experience, so while our settings recommendations are designed to improve performance beyond just setting everything to the maximum or leaving them at defaults, we aren’t going to make major sacrifices to visual quality just for a few frames per second (fps).

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Part of the charm of Manor Lords is found in many of its little details — the dust kicked up by the oxen pulling logs around, the reflections in the puddles as you walk around your settlement. You can always turn these off if you find your system needs you to, but for the best blend of performance and visual appeal, these are what we’d recommend.

Display mode: Full screen, or borderless full screen if you want to be able to easily interact with something on another monitor.
Anti-Aliasing: If your graphics card supports DLSS, FSR, or XeSS, use those, as they make a big difference to performance and don’t have any obviously negative effects on visuals. Set them to Quality mode. If you can’t use them, TAA gives the best looking experience, while turning it off entirely will boost