Graphics Settings

• The "Graphics" menu has presets, which are "Low," "Medium," "High," and "Epic"
• Please do note that selecting any one of those profiles will set upscaling resolution to 66%!! This will look terrible at lower resolution, especially when using TAA. I've manually set it to 100% throughout this article
• You may disable motion blur by setting "Motion Blur Strength" to 0%
• Sharpness defaults to 20%, which is a reasonable default
• The upscalers available are "Off," "TAA," "TSR," "NVIDIA DLSS," "AMD FSR," and "Intel XeSS"
• DLAA and FSR Native are supported, by selecting "NativeAA" in "Upscaling quality"
• Both FSR and DLSS Frame Generation are supported. You may enable them separately, so GeForce 30 owners can use DLSS Upscaling with FSR Frame Generation
• In addition to that, there are several options for fine-tuning performance on your system

• You can choose between "fullscreen," "borderless," or "windowed"
• The field of view can be adjusted between 70 and 110 degrees. I found the default of 90° a little bit too narrow and increased it to 100°
• V-Sync can be disabled completely, there is no hidden FPS cap
• The FPS limiter can be set to 30, 60, 120, 240 and unlimited
• If the image is too dark for you, increase the Gamma setting. The default on my system was around 0.4, which made it extremely hard to see enemies and navigate the maps. After switching to 0.7, things were much more enjoyable

Test System

• We tested the public Steam release of Stalker 2, not a press release build
• We used the newest drivers from all the GPU vendors. Intel and NVIDIA have Game Ready drivers, AMD does not. We reached out to AMD and they recommend the 24.10.1 WHQL drivers.