When the wipe first came, it was fucking unbearable to play the game for me, but after watching videos and guides on how to get better FPS, i finally figured it out. just don't play… jk.
This is a step by step guide, on how to probably get better FPS, while still having a good looking game.
Step 1: Audio
Turn off Binaural Audio; Makes you stutter like crazy
Step 2:
Turn up your Texture- and Shadows Quality to medium (maybe even high), instead of low.
This utilizes more of your CPU and GPU, understandably, but with the way the game is optimized, it
somehow gives you more fps (maybe not on all PCs, but worth a try).
Put LOD to the lowest (2), and view distance to 1000… 400 if your pc is crap.
Anti-aliasing: TAA High, or TAA if your is crap :)… or just completely off if you u got potato pc
The rest should just be off.
Sharpness 0.4 (This can be personal preference)
And something that works very well for me, is it to limit my game to 60 fps.. not just the lobby!
I do have a 120Hz monitor myself, but I guess I'll just use that for other games, and so can you 🙂
Also don't check anything at the bottom at the settings menu, (Z-blur, Noise, etc.). This can however also be up to personal preference, so if the rest of the guide works for you, you can try and turn on some of those settings, if you like 'em.
Step 3: Overclocking CPU & GPU
In Step 2, I said the CPU and GPU would be utilized more, and of course, you guessed it, this means you might as well Overclock them too, to boost your performance even more.
For the GPU (Nvidia), I used .
Start by turning your "Core Voltage" to +100% and the Fan "Power Limit" to MAX. The Fan Power Limit differs from GPU to GPU.. the highest I can go is 108%, but I've seen people who can go a lot higher.
Next step is increase the "Core Clock" by increments of 10-20 MHz, while running a Benchmarking application, like , in the background. Do this until the app starts to freeze or crashes completely, and then decrease the Core Clock by 5-10 MHz until it's stable.
Do the same for the Memory Clock, but with increments of 50-100 MHz.
For the CPU (AMD), I used , but I bet there's a CPU for almost all overclockable CPUs.
Here you have to be careful, because setting the voltage too high, will literally break your CPU.
For my own CPU (Ryzen 5 2600 | Stock Cooler), I set my Voltage to 1.35 V and my Core Speed to 3900 MHz. The Core Speed can differ a lot from PC to PC (with the same CPU), and I've seen people put it high with the same CPU, but this is the highest stable speed I can do. This can depend on your cooling, thermal paste, etc. I recommend watching a guide on YouTube for this, as I am no expert in this field, and I don't really feel like breaking your CPU :).
Step 4: Turn on XMP
If you didn't know, you're able to increase the speed of your RAM. I'm not completely sure if this is for all RAM, but I believe most new RAM has this feature. First off, download . Here, there should be tab called "SPD", where you can see the speed of your stock RAM, and the proposed XMP speed, as seen . If you then go into the "Memory", you can see your current speed, called "DRAM Frequency", which should be the same as your RAM is advertised as.
To turn on XMP, you have to go into your BIOS, so restarting your PC, and holding a specific button, which differs from motherboard to motherboard. I have ASUS , so for me it's F2 or Delete. In your BIOS, there should be a thing called "Profile", "XMP", or "D.O.C.P.". This is a premade settings for your RAM that turns on XMP, and then all u have to do is to save the settings and restart your PC. Now when you've booted up, open CPU-Z again and check the "memory" tab, and the "DRAM Frequency" should be the same as it's proposed in the "SPD" tab.
Additional Notes
Find your EscapeFromTarkov.exe file, right click and open properties. Go to the "Compatibility" tab, and check "Disable full-screen optimizations" and "Run this program as an administrator".
Next, click on "Change high DPI settings", and check "Override high DPI scaling behaviour". For the "Scaling performed by:", I made it "Application". I'm not sure if the other ones makes a difference.
This might fix some stuttering issues you might be having.
Open up Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+ESC), and try and close programs that you don't use, and programs that use a lot of RAM.
I've also heard that currently Tarkov is experiencing some memory leakage issues, which basically means it keeps using more and more RAM to play the game, which might end up in you stuttering. To fix this, just restart your game once in a while.. kind of a shitty fix, but nothing else we can do about it rn.
Hope this helps 🙂
TL;DR
Follow my , Overclock CPU & GPU and Enable XMP, maybe read Additional notes lol
