In recent times, Escape from Tarkov, has become one of the most popular games on Twitch. This online first-shooter game has received recent updates, which has made it more interesting to play.
However, many people have been complaining of issues that cause the game to not run as it should. In this guide, we will show you what you need to do in order to boost the performance of the game.
1. Close the unnecessary programs running in the background.
Some programs may conflict with your game leading to poor performance. To fix, you need to close all the programs running in the background.
This will dedicate all your device resources to the game and boost its performance. You can use the task manager to identify the running programs.
2. Update your graphics drivers
Running Escape from Tarkov on outdated graphics cards can affect the game performance. Therefore, you need to update your graphics drivers.
To update the graphic drivers manually, follow these steps;
- Go to the driver manufacturer’s official website
- Check for any driver updates
- Click Install
To update automatically, use driver updater tools like Driver Booster, Driver Easy, etc. Such tools will check the available driver updates for you. You can then click on Install to complete the process.
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3. Enable high-performance power plan
A low power plan restricts some operations that may lead to high power consumption. This may affect your game performance. To fix, enable a high-performance power plan. Here is how to do it:
- Click on start
- On the search bar, type powercfg.cpl then press enter
- Select the high-performance
4. Enable game mode
Windows 10 has Game mode settings. This will optimize your device for playing games when enabled. To enable it:
- Open start
- Search for Game mode setting
- Turn it on
5. Turn off Discord hardware acceleration
Quite a number of users use Discord for voice-over chat with family and friends. If you notice FPS drops in your game, turn off Hardware Acceleration. It will help boost your game performance. To do so:
- Go to preferences
- Select Appearance
- Click on Hardware acceleration
- Turn it off
6. Turn off Google Chrome Hardware acceleration
Most gamers use Google Chrome as their primary web browser. Just like Discord, Chrome has an option of Hardware acceleration, turning it off will improve your game performance. To turn it off:
- Go to settings
- Click on advanced
- Turn off Use Hardware Acceleration when available.
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7. Reset your graphics settings for Escape from Tarkov
You can boost your game performance by resetting your graphic settings as follows:
- Open Escape from Tarkov
- Go to Settings
- Click on Graphics
- Set;
- Screen resolution to your native monitor’s resolution
- Screen mode to fullscreen
- Texture quality to medium
- Shadows quality to low
- Object LOD quality to 3.5
- Overall visibility to 75
- Antialiasing to TAA
- Resembling to 1x off
- HBAO to off
- SSR to off
- Anisotropic filtering to per textures
- Sharpness to 1.3
- Lobby FPS limit to 60
- Game FPS limit to 120.
- Uncheck the following;
- Grass shadows
- Noise
- aberrations
- Z-blur
- Vsynch
I hope the above works to boost your Escape from Tarkov performance. Any different opinion about the same is invited.