Graphics Settings

The in-game graphics settings are a long list on a single page, I combined it into two images.

• Homeworld 3 supports running windowed, borderless and fullscreen
• You may disable V-Sync
• An optional FPS counter in the top left corner can be enabled
• The FPS limit in-game and in the menus can be set separately, there is no hidden FPS cap, but the game is quite CPU limited
• Motion blur can be disabled completely

• The "Upscale algorithm" menu has three options: "Spatial," "TAAU," "DLSS," "FSR," and "XeSS". Spatial is just bilinear upscaling and looks terrible, TAAU is Unreal Engine's own temporal upscaler
• The Resolution scale menu provides the usual "Ultra Quality," "Quality," "Balanced," "Performance" and "Ultra Performance." On top of that you get a "Custom" setting that lets you set the percentage freely between 33% and 95%, and 100%
• Besides that there are many options to further improve performance and fine-tune everything
• At the end of the list is "Ray Tracing," which renders shadows with RT instead of cascaded shadow maps.

Test System

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

We tested the public Steam release of Homeworld 3. We used the newest drivers from all the GPU vendors, only NVIDIA has Game Ready drivers at this time.