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OPTIMIZED SETTINGS / BOOST FPS [2025]
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Optimized graphics settings for the best balance of visibility and performance in KF3.
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Graphics Settings
These are the settings I use for the best balance of visibility and performance in KF3.
The game looks much clearer and sharper while still maintaining solid visuals.
With these tweaks my FPS increased from 120–160 to 190–250.
(Tested on RTX 4070 Ti, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32GB RAM)
Feel free to adjust the settings based on your system.

  • VSync: Off
  • Motion Blur: Off
  • Depth of Field: Off
  • View Distance Quality: High
  • Reflection Quality: Low
  • Post Process Quality: Low
  • Shadow Quality: Low
  • Global Illumination Quality: High
  • Texture Quality: High
  • Effects Quality: High
  • Foliage Quality: Low
  • Shading Quality: Low
  • Bloom: Off
  • Lens Flare: Off
  • Reflection Method: SSR
  • Global Illumination Method: None (very important)
  • NVIDIA Reflex: Enabled
  • Supersampling Mode: NVIDIA DLSS (AMD FSR may work better depending on your system)
  • DLSS/FSR Quality Mode: Quality (or Balanced for AMD FSR)
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Celatra 30 Jul @ 1:51pm 
turn view distance and foliage and effects to low. also you can do some other settings in gameusersettings.ini for more fps on weaker systems, such as mine with a 5600x and 7900gre.
Lampenpam 29 Jul @ 5:18am 
@GerrSwin the CPU optimization in this game is simply poor. You will probably have notable frame-spikes even with a high-end CPU. My point was just that reducing certain graphic settings that only affect the GPU won't affect your performance, which is certainly the case for you with a 4080Ti.
I kinda wish we had hardware-Lumen because of that instead of only software-lumen which runs on the CPU, but I think it wouldn't fix the underlying issue anyway. Anyway, you can try increasing some of the graphic settings and check your performance, most will likely make no difference in performance for you.
GerrSwin 29 Jul @ 4:10am 
@Lampenpam 4080Ti and I9 285K - and FPS just dropping randomly. Is really my CPU or GPU for this game bad?
Lampenpam 27 Jul @ 4:56pm 
@Yung_Sean If you have a high-end card you don't want to change most settings to low, because you are likely CPU-bottlenecked. Use the new Steam performance overview to see if you are GPU or CPU caped
Yung_Sean 27 Jul @ 4:25pm 
Why should we need to change half of the settings to low on HIGH END graphics cards??? Quit praising TripWire for this poorly optimized slop. I have a 4080 and the average FPS I get at the recommended settings is 35...
SMEGHEAD! 27 Jul @ 3:26pm 
Game runs very well with high settings at 4k, no upscaling.
9800x3d 7900XTX.
I always add games to windows defender exclusion list, and disable exploit protection for the .exe.
This seems to fix any fps/stutter issues.
Windows 10 pro.
IJRTSKINS 27 Jul @ 1:29am 
gotta love when games are optimised so poorly that the only option is to make the game look terrible and use upscaling just to get a smoothish frame rate
Luxxid 26 Jul @ 4:48pm 
Game just runs like hot garbage.
Guardian_Angel 26 Jul @ 3:27pm 
Finally I can get semi-stable 60 FPS with my old-ass RTX 5090 gold-plated edition
idima 26 Jul @ 9:26am 
The best guide for FPS is RTX 5090