How To Fix Low FPS In Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered PC

Window Mode

Exclusive Fullscreen

Although normal full-screen (borderless) mode works well, switching to exclusive full-screen bumps your FPS by 5%.

Aspect Ratio

Auto

Or, you could manually set it to either 16:9/16:10 (widescreen) or 21:9 (ultrawide), depending on your display.

Display Resolution

Native

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Vsync

Off

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Framerate Cap

Monitor’s Max Refresh Rate

Alternatively, players who are comfortable can cap their frame rate to 60.

Anti-Aliasing Mode

Off

Since we’re going to use an upscaler, there’s no need to have an Anti-Aliasing mode enabled.

Nvidia Reflex or AMD Anti-Lag 2

On

Helps reduce latency but may decrease performance slightly.

Frame Generation

Off

The frame generation implementation in The Last of Us Part 2 is really unstable, as it causes unbearable stuttering and weird artifacts.

Upscale Method

DLSS or FSR

Using an upscaler does not impact the quality that much while also improving the average FPS.

Upscale Quality

Quality

Using quality is the best way to go, as the balanced mode does not improve FPS that much.

Upscale Sharpness

Personal Preference

It’s best not to apply too much sharpening as the game already has some sort of sharpness filter. Oversharpness hurts the texture visuals.

Dynamic Resolution Scaling

Off

No need to use it as the GPU-based upscaling is already activated.

Cinematic Pillarboxes

Off

An exclusive feature for ultrawide monitors. Not recommended to improve immersion.

Brightness

Personal Preference

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Level of Detail

High

Mostly improves the look of textures and their loading to avoid texture pop-ins.

Texture Quality

High

This setting depends mainly on the VRAM available on your GPU. Anything over high requires 8GB+ VRAM.

Texture Filtering

8 or 16

Smoothens the textures and improves their look in-game.

Shadow Quality

Medium

Settings that have a high impact on FPS. Anything over medium will reduce FPS significantly.

Screen Space Shadows

Medium

Image-Based Lighting

On

It does not impact the FPS a lot, but it does improve the look of darker scenes with minimal light sources.

Bounced Lighting

On

Ambient Occlusion

Performance

Retains the appearance of occlusion around objects, yet does not impact FPS by a lot. This can be cranked to Quality with minimal FPS impact.

Screen Space Reflections

Medium

Another group of settings with a huge graphical impact. These should be kept to medium or low to avoid straining performance too much.

Real-Time Reflections Quality

Low

Real-Time Clouds Shadow Reflections

Off

Refraction Quality

Medium

Depth of Field

On

The bokeh effect around objects in focus looks visually pleasing and does not lower FPS.

Depth of Field Quality

High

Motion Blur Quality/Intensity

Off

The motion blur looks decent.

Bloom

On

It does not impact the FPS, but it adds a nice visual flair to scenes.

Particle Density

Medium

Reduces the amount of non-critical visual effects, improving FPS.

Volumetric Effects Quality

Medium

Although the fog and other light-based effects look amazing, they bog down the FPS. Medium is a good sweet spot.

Lens Flare

Full Resolution

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Field of View

The default looks good as is, but increasing it may decrease FPS a little.

Camera Shake

5

All these settings are strictly for aesthetics and do not impact overall FPS.

Chromatic Aberration Intensity

5

Film Grain

Lense Dirt

5