Satisfactory 1.0 best PC settings
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Satisfactory 1.0 best PC settings

Satisfactory's optimization is way above just satisfactory.

The best PC settings are the ones that will rock a good balance between FPS and quality. For an open-world game like Satisfactory, it becomes even more important as the possibilities of building and expanding your factories are endless, and that can requi🎃re a lot of resources.

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Thanks to a generous set of from Coffee Stain Studios, you can easily achieve that balance even on a bit dated hardware. So, here are some of the best quality and performance settings for Satisfactory 1.0.

Best Quality settings for Satisfactory

To get the best out of Satisfactory, you 💜simply have to set all the graphics settings to Ultra, as that will ensure achieving the highest quality.

Satisfactory best quality settings
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Display

  • Resolution: Native monitor resolution
  • Fullscreen: Fullscreen
  • Graphics API: DirectX 12
  • Max FPS: Unlimited

Performance & Graphics Quality

  • Texture Quality: Ultra
  • Shadow Quality: Ultra
  • Far Shadow Trace Distance: Far
  • Post Processing: Ultra
  • Anti Aliasing: Ultra
  • Foliage Load Distance: Far
  • VFX Quality: Ultra
  • Foliage Quality: Ultra
  • Light Quality: Ultra
  • View Distance: Ultra
  • Cloud Quality: Ultra
  • Motion Blur: On/Off (personal choice)
  • Conveyor Visual Quality: Ultra

Advanced

  • Upscaling Method: Nvidia DLSS
  • Upscaling Preset: Quality
  • Screen Percentage: 90
  • Conveyor Belt Item Frequency: Unlimited
  • Conveyor Belt Render Distance: Far
  • Gamma: 2
  • VSync: Off
  • Hierarchical Z-buffer Occlusion: Off
  • Enable LOD Dithering: Checked
  • Enable Contact Shadows: Checked
  • Global Illumination: Off

Since my system is equipped with an RTX 3060Ti, I went with the DLSS way. If you have an AMD or Intel GPU, you’ll have to choose AMD FSR or Intel XeSS accordingly.

Camera

  • Field of View: 120 (you can keep it lower if you want)
  • First Person FOV Modifier: 1
  • Maintain Y Axis FOV Aspect Ratio: Off

These settings gave me around 90 to 115 frame꧋s consistently, and at the highest quality possible🦹 at 1080p.

Satisfactory best performance settings
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Best Performance settings for Satisfactory

To get the best performance, you must tweak th🥀e quality options a little.

Display

  • Resolution: Native monitor resolution
  • Fullscreen: Fullscreen
  • Graphics API: DirectX 12
  • Max FPS: Unlimited

Performance & Graphics Quality

  • Texture Quality: High
  • Shadow Quality: Medium
  • Far Shadow Trace Distance: Near
  • Post Processing: Medium
  • Anti Aliasing: High
  • Foliage Load Distance: Far
  • VFX Quality: High
  • Foliage Quality: Medium
  • Light Quality: Medium
  • View Distance: Far
  • Cloud Quality: High
  • Motion Blur: On/Off (personal choice)
  • Conveyor Visual Quality: Medium

Advanced

  • Upscaling Method: Nvidia DLSS
  • Upscaling Preset: Balanced
  • Screen Percentage: 75
  • Conveyor Belt Item Frequency: Unlimited
  • Conveyor Belt Render Distance: Medium
  • Gamma: 2
  • VSync: Off
  • Hierarchical Z-buffer Occlusion: Off
  • Enable LOD Dithering: Checked
  • Enable Contact Shadows: Checked
  • Global Illumination: Off

Camera

  • Field of View: 120 (you can keep it lower if you want)
  • First Person FOV Modifier: 1
  • Maintain Y Axis FOV Aspect Ratio: Off

Using these settings, I was getting within ♎the 120 to 160 FPS range. The gameplay appeared smooth and I did not notice a massive drop in quality either.


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