Display Mode: Fullscreen
Upscaling: DLSS (NVIDIA), FSR (AMD) – Use Balanced or Performance
Texture Quality: High/Ultra (Only if VRAM ≥ 8GB)
Shadows: Medium
Volumetrics: Low
Reflections: Medium
Post-Processing: Medium
Motion Blur: Off
V-Sync: Off (Unless screen tearing)
FPS Cap: Off or set to monitor refresh rate

📌 For laptops: Keep volumetrics & shadows LOW for less heat.

• 🔋 Power Plan: Set to High Performance or Ultimate Performance
  
  
• 🧠 Game Mode: On (Settings > Gaming > Game Mode)
  
  
• 🎮 GPU Scheduling: On (Settings > Display > Graphics > Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling)
  
  
• 🚫 Disable Background Apps: Settings > Apps > Startup = Off unnecessary apps
  
  
• 🔄 Update Drivers: Use GeForce Experience or AMD Adrenalin

✅ NVIDIA Control Panel:

• Low Latency Mode: On
  
  
• Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance
  
  
• Texture Filtering – Quality: High Performance
  
  
• Vertical Sync: Off

✅ AMD Adrenalin:

• Radeon Anti-Lag: On
  
  
• Radeon Chill: Off
  
  
• Image Sharpening: On (30-50%)
  
  
• Tessellation Mode: Override application settings > 4x

• ❄️ Use a Cooling Pad – reduces CPU throttling
  
  
• 🔌 Always plug in your charger (battery mode limits performance)
  
  
• 📶 Disable Wi-Fi/Bluetooth during offline play
  
  
• 🌙 Enable Windows Battery Saver only when idle

✅ Check if Resizable BAR is enabled (boosts GPU performance by 2-5%)

🔧 Update BIOS & GPU drivers

• NVIDIA Users: Use GeForce Experience > Check Resizable BAR
  
  
• AMD: Use Adrenalin Software > Settings > Advanced

💡 You may need to enable this in BIOS (search: ReBAR + motherboard model)

🚫 Disable junk:

• Steam Overlay (Settings > In-Game > Disable Overlay)
  
  
• Discord Overlay
  
  
• Xbox Game Bar

🧹 Use tools like:

• MSI Afterburner (monitor temps + FPS)
  
  
• Process Lasso (prioritize game performance)
  
  
• Razer Cortex (auto kills background apps)

🚀 Slight GPU OC via MSI Afterburner:

• +100 MHz Core
  
  
• +300 MHz Memory
  
  
• +10-15% Power Limit

⚠️ Monitor temps – stay under 80°C. For laptops, undervolting may be better than overclocking.

MSI Afterburner - FPS & Temp Overlay
CapFrameX - Benchmarking & Frame Analysis
HWiNFO64 - Detailed Hardware Monitoring

🎥 Test scene: fight-heavy, effects-heavy levels for accurate stress testing.

🧾 Backup your settings before modifying.

Look for:

• FoV Mods (for ultrawide monitors)
  
  
• Reduced Particle Effects
  
  
• Custom INI Settings in:

C:\Users\[YourName]\AppData\Local\SpaceMarine2\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

Modify:

• r.ShadowQuality=2
  
  
• r.VolumetricFog=0
  
  
• r.MotionBlurQuality=0

• ✔️ Turn off Volumetrics, Screen Space Reflections, and Motion Blur
  
• ✔️ Enable DLSS/FSR with Balanced mode
  
• ✔️ Use DirectX 12 (DX12) – lower CPU usage
  
• ✔️ Use Borderless Fullscreen ONLY if you switch tabs often
  
• ✔️ Benchmark every change with in-game scenes