Diablo 4 Season 5 has arrived, and to experience the new content in its most visually appealing form, check out these best PC settings for Diablo 4 that grant high FPS, amazing graphics, and more.
While console players have a fixed graphics mode, PC players can tweak the graphics settings of their game to boost performance, visuals, and other aspects of gameplay.
Best PC settings for graphics in Diablo 4
Screen
- Display: Windowed Fullscreen
- Adapter: Your GPU
- Monitor: Your desired monitor
- Resolution: Default
- HDR: On
- Verticle Sync: Off
- Limit Cutscene FPS: Yes
- Lock Cursor: Off
- Peripheral Lighting: On
Performance
- Resolution Scaling: On
- NVIDIA DLSS:Off (Balanced if using an NVIDIA GPU)
- Quality Mode: Quality
- Sharpen Image: 90
- NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: Enabled + Boost (if available)
- Max Foreground FPS: 400
- Max Background FPS: 8
Quality
- Texture Quality: High
- Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
- Geometric Complexity: Medium
- Terrain Geometry Detail: High
- Clutter: High
- Fog Quality: High
- Fur Quality: High
- Dynamic Shadows: On
- Soft Shadows: On
- Shader Quality: High
- SSAO Quality: High
- Clutter Quality: High
- Water Simulation Quality: High
- Anti-Aliasing Quality: High
- Physics Quality: High
- Particle Quality: High
- Reflection Quality: High
- Screen Space Reflections: On
- Distortion: On
- Low FX: Off
Ray Tracing
- Ray Traced Shadows Quality: High
- Ray Traced Reflections Quality: High
- Ray Traced Foliage: On
- Ray Traced Particles: On
Blizzard EntertainmentYou can tweak your screen settings to your liking.
Each system is different, so even though we found these were the best settings for high graphics, it’s a good idea to experiment with what works best for your rig.
This goes doubly for settings like Font and Cursor Scale, as well as Color Blind settings, which are very much about personal preference rather than what is best.
Best settings for performance in Diablo 4
Screen
- Display: Windowed (Fullscreen)
- Adapter: Your GPU
- Monitor: Your desired monitor
- Resolution: Default
- Sharpen Image: 6
- Limit Cutscene FPS: Yes
- Lock Cursor: Off
- Peripheral Lighting: On
Performance
- Resolution Percentage: 100%
- NVIDIA DLSS: Off (Performance if using an NVIDIA GPU)
- Frame Generation: On (if available)
- Max Foreground FPS: 120/60
- Max Background FPS: 8
- NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: Enabled + Boost
Quality
- Texture Quality: Low
- Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Dynamic Shadows: Off
- Soft Shadows: Off
- Shader Quality: Low
- SSAO Quality: Low
- Fog Quality: Low
- Clutter Quality: Medium
- Fur Quality: Low
- Water Simulation Quality: Low
- Anti-Aliasing Quality: Low
- Physics Quality: Low
- Particle Quality: Low
- Reflection Quality: Low
- Geometric Complexity: Low
- Terrain Geometry Detail: Low
- Screen Space Reflections: Off
- Distortion: Off
- Low FX: On
Ray Tracing
- Ray Traced Shadows Quality: Off
- Ray Traced Reflections Quality: Low
- Ray Traced Foliage: Off
- Ray Traced Particles: Off
Blizzard EntertainmentOn lower-end PCs, you may want to use lower settings for better performance.
These settings are best for performance purposes, but they’re also the ideal settings if you are running a lower-end PC that just meets the minimum specs for Diablo 4. As with high graphics settings, make sure to experiment with what works for your specific setup.
Diablo 4 ray tracing explained
Just like in every other game, ray tracing in Diablo 4 aims to improve the overall quality of shadows and reflections, driving a bit toward realism. However, using ray tracing will significantly reduce the overall performance of the game and you will get subsequently lesser FPS than before.
If you have a beefy GPU like an RTX 4090 that can ensure 200+ FPS at 4K resolution, feel free to experiment with ray tracing in Diablo 4. But if you have a mid-range card, you’ll likely get massive performance hits whenever you enable ray tracing on high settings.
Minimum System Requirements for ray tracing
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
- RAM: 16 GB
- Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 2060 with DLSS Super Resolution or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT or Intel Arc A770
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 90 GB available space (SSD)
Recommended System Requirements for ray tracing
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i7-10700 or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
- RAM: 8 GB
- Graphics Card: Any 8 GB Nvidia GeForce RTX card compatible with Direct X 12, AMD RDNA 2 or Intel Arc 7 Graphics
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 90 GB available space (SSD)
Blizzard EntertainmentYou can change ray tracing in the settings menu.
How to update graphics drivers
If you’re still struggling with performance issues, you may need to update your graphics drivers. Here’s how to do it for NVIDIA and AMD cards:
How to update NVIDIA graphics driver
- Download GeForce Experience throughNVIDIA.com.
- Open GeForce Experience.
- Select the ‘Drivers’ tab.
- Click ‘check for updates’ in the upper right corner.
- If an update is available, follow the steps.
How to update AMD graphics driver
- Right-click on your desktop.
- Select AMD Radeon Settings.
- Click on the Home icon.
- Click ‘New Updates’ on the bottom left.
- Select ‘check for update’.
- If an update is available, follow the steps.
System requirements
Lastly, if you’re still not finding joy with performance in Diablo 4, you may want to double check if you meet the system requirements for the game:
Minimum System Requirements:
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD FX-8350
- RAM: 8 GB
- Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 280 or Intel Arc A380
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 90 GB available space (SSD)
Recommended System Requirements:
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K or AMD R3-1300X
- RAM: 16 GB
- Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 6GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 8GB or Intel Arc A380
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 90 GB available space (SSD)
Once you’ve got your settings sorted for Season 5, you should be ready to take on the new endgame mode Infernal Hordes and the new Hellbreach dungeons. The season is also bringing 50 new Uniques and Legendary Aspects, so make sure your PC is in its best shape to start the grind.
