Having a high-end PC is not required for all games, and Apex Legends is one of them. With the right settings, Apex Legends can be played even on a Low-End PC. In this guide, we will see the best settings needed to play Apex Legends on a Low-End PC.
Best Apex Legends Settings for Low-End PCs
These settings are not just suited for players who are playing Apex Legends on low-end PCs but can also help if you are facing lag or frame rate issues. Here are the settings that you can change if you wish to play Apex Legends smoothly.
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- Display mode: Full Screen
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 (native)
- Resolution: 1920×1080 (native)
- V-Sync: off
- Anti-Aliasing: off for optimization
- Texture Streaming Budget: Depends on your graphics card, low for low-end cards and mid for high end
- Texture Filtering: Anisotropic 2X
- Ambient Occlusion Quality: Disabled / low
- Sun Shadow Coverage: Low
- Sun Shadow Detail: Low
- Spot Shadow Detail: Off / low
- Volumetric Lighting: Disabled
- Dynamic Spot Shadows: Disabled
- Model Detail: Low / medium
- Effects Detail: Low / medium
- Impact Marks: Low / medium
- Ragdoll: Low / medium
You can adjust these preferences to your liking in the internal settings of Apex Legends and see what works for your system. If you value graphics over gameplay then you can adjust it accordingly. Restart the game after you are done with the settings and test it out.
You can also remove the FPS cap to solve the FPS problem.
- Open Origin or Steam.
- Go to Game Library
- Right-click Apex Legends
- Select ‘Game Properties’ on Origin /‘Properties’ on Steam
- Go to ‘Game Properties’.
- Click Advanced Launch Options on Origin/ General tab on Steam
- Type “+fps_max unlimited” under either Command line arguments/ Launch Options
It will also help if you have the latest drivers and graphics cards to help you with the graphics issues you would face while playing Apex Legends on a low-end PC. You can download the latest drivers off of your graphics card website or the drivers’ section.
You can also check out the settings manually on your Nvidia Graphics Card by going to Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Add: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Apex Legends. Select r5apex.exe
Nvidia Control Panel:
- Image Sharpening: NVIDIA recommended
- Anisotropic filtering: Application-controlled
- Antialiasing – FXAA: Off
- Gamma correction: On
- Mode: Application-controlled
- Transparency: Off
- Background Application FR: Off
- CUDA – GPUs: All
- Max Frame Rate: Off
- Monitor Technology: G-Sync
- Multi-Frame Sampled AA: Off
- OpenGL rendering GPU: Auto-Select
- Power management mode: maximum
- Preferred Refresh rate: High
- Shader Cache: On
- Texture filtering – Anisotropic: On
- Negative LOD bias: Allow
- Quality: High Performance
- Trilinear optimization: On
- Threaded optimization: On
- Triple buffering: Off
- Vertical Sync: Off
- Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames: 1
Nvidia GeForce Experience
- Settings > General > In-Game Overlay: Off
- Settings > Shield > Gamestream: Off
AMD Radeon Settings
- AMD Radeon Settings > Gaming > Select ROE
- Anti-aliasing Mode: application settings
- Anti-aliasing Method: Multisampling
- Morphological Filtering: Off
- Anisotropic Filtering: Application settings
- Texture Filtering Quality: Performance
- Surface Format Optimization: On
- Vertical Refresh: Always off
- OpenGL Triple Buffering: Off
- Shader Cache: On
- Tessellation Mode: Override application
- Maximum Tessellation Level: Off
- AMD FreeSync: AMD optimized
- Frame Rate Target Control: Disabled
You can use these settings to see if the gameplay is to your liking on your PC for Apex Legends. You can also check out our other Apex Legends guides to know more.