Graphics Settings

• The first settings screen deals with the usual monitor settings
• The game supports borderless windowed, windowed (there's no fullscreen option)
• Anti-aliasing modes are TAA low, TAA high and NVIDIA DLAA
• Upscaling technologies support are NVIDIA DLSS 2, AMD FSR 2, Intel XeSS, NVIDIA NIS—so everything that exists is supported.
• V-Sync can be turned off
• The FPS can be set to unlimited or 30, 60, 75, 120, 144, 160, 165, 180, 200, 240, 360 FPS. There's no hidden FPS cap
• There's a Field of View (FOV) setting, that ranges from -20 to +20, in a third-person game, love it. I felt that +10 was more comfortable for me than the default of 0
• Motion blur and other effects can be disabled

• On the "Graphics" page you'll find several advanced options for fine-tuning
• There's four presets: "low," "medium," "high" and "ultra"
• The "Run Benchmark" option doesn't run any benchmark that you would expect. Rather it runs a short 2-second test with no display output that estimates your GPU's performance.
• Ray tracing is disabled by default, even on Ultra, which is good, as it makes sure there's no unexpected performance hits
• There's three options for ray tracing: reflections, shadows and ambient occlusion
• DLSS 3 Frame Generation is available, too. It's not displayed in the menu because the RTX 3080 in the system doesn't support it. There's also a menu bug with DLSS Frame Generation. The developers falsely assumed that FG only works when DLSS 2 is enabled. So to change the DLSS 3 setting, enable DLSS 2, which ungrays DLSS 3, change the setting, then turn off DLSS 2 again.

Test System

Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

We tested the public release version of Hogwarts Legacy, not a press preview version. Neither AMD, nor NVIDIA have released game-ready drivers yet. Intel has released a game-ready driver, which we used.