In a new blog entry, Nvidia shows settings that should provide more frames per second in the Battle Royale Shooter Playerunknown's Battlegrounds and thus also a competitive advantage.
The background is once again the “Frames Win Games” project, which is dedicated to its name in accordance with the topic, what advantages higher fps can potentially offer with the right hardware and how such fps numbers can be achieved.
It comes as no surprise that Nvidia launched such a campaign – after all, Nvidia itself sells graphics cards, which are mostly responsible for the calculation of images in games.
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What does 240 Hertz bring? Slow motion video from Nvidia
What advantages should more fps offer?
Higher frame and image refresh rates reduce latency, i.e. the time that elapses between the input (for example, a mouse movement or a key press) and the output on the screen. At the same time, movements appear smoother, the higher the fps with a graphics card in combination with the high refresh rate of a suitable monitor.
Is that even noticeable at high fps? Whether and if so how clearly an improvement is perceived in such high fps ranges as about 240 frames per second depends on each individual – so it is highly subjective.
Experience has shown that the jump from 60 fps to 120/144 fps (or Hertz) is most noticeable, while even higher frame and frame rates are often hardly noticed or not noticed by many players.
According to Nvidia, however, there is a measurable relationship between the K / D ratio, i.e. the relationship between killings and own deaths, and high fps, which the above picture is intended to illustrate.
Nvidia's suggestion to improve fps in PUBG
The company's own RTX-2000 graphics cards should already be able to reach the 144 fps stably at 1080p resolution. In the case of AMD, PUBG's official system requirements recommend a Radeon RX 5700.
If you need more or more frames per second, you can use Nvidia's following guide, which achieves more fps with a reduced resolution and lower details.
- Set the resolution to 1920×1080 and make sure that the monitor is set to the highest possible refresh rate.
- Set the rendering resolution in the game to 90 and apply the quality settings (picture below).
To compensate for the lower resolution, it is also recommended to activate Image Sharpening in the Nvidia Control Panel. You have to do this as follows:
- Navigate to »Manage 3D Settings«
- Select the "Program settings" tab
- Deselect "Show only programs found on this computer"
- Find and select both PUBG entries
- Activate Image Sharpening with the preset settings
- confirm and close Nvidia Control Panel
AMD shows in a YouTube video how you can activate the comparable function Radeon Image Sharpening in the current adrenaline driver.
