Graphics Settings

• The main settings menu lets you select from "Low," "Medium," "High," and "Ultra." On top of that there's "Auto" and "Custom"
• Ray tracing has four modes "Off," "Medium," "High," and "Ultra." RT seems to affect shadows, ambient occlusion, reflections and global illumination
• The "Additional Options" dropdown is where you can enable DLSS/FSR and XeSS. An additional option "Epic Games" lets you enable Unreal's own temporal upscaling algorithm
• When an upscaler is enabled, you can select the quality level ("Performance" or "Quality" etc.), but the sharpening can't be controlled here, a slider for sharpening is available in the display settings
• DLAA and FSR's NativeAA are supported
• You may enable DLSS Frame Generation or FSR Frame Generation. FSR Frame Generation requires FSR Upscaling (NativeAA is possible, just not "off")
• Mixing DLSS and FSR Frame Generation isn't possible
• V-Sync can be disabled completely, there is no hidden FPS cap
• An FPS limiter is available with the following steps: 30, 40, 60, 95, 120, 144 FPS
• Besides that there are several additional options for performance fine-tuning
• At the end of the list you can disable Motion Blur. Unfortunately the game still looks very soft, no matter what you do (a manual .ini edit helps)

• The display settings menu has the usual options for "windowed," "borderless," and "fullscreen."
• You can also adjust the field of view here, I found 90° to be quite decent, and I usually complain about too narrow FOV
• Sharpness can be adjusted here, too

Test System

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

We tested the public Steam release of The First Descendant. We used the newest drivers from all the GPU vendors, which all have Game Ready support for the game.