Main menu background scenery: Anything you want!
Color mode: Computer Monitor
Brightness: 110%
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Resolution: 1280×960
Display mode: Fullscreen
Refresh rate: Max
Laptop power savings: Disabled
Boost player contrast: Disabled – This setting appears to be bugged
Wait for vertical sync: Disabled – Can cause input delay and locks FPS to your refresh rate
Current video values preset: Custom
Multisampling Anti-Aliasing Mode: 4X MSAA – Lower values provide minor FPS gain, look bad
Global Shadow Quality: High – Or Medium, but avoid low
Model / Texture Detail: Medium – Minimal FPS impact
Texture Filtering Mode: Bilinear – Minimal FPS impact
Shader Detail: Low – Improves FPS
Particle Detail: Low – Improves FPS
Ambient Occlusion: Disabled – Improves FPS
High Dynamic Range: Quality – Minimal FPS impact, big visual upgrade over Performance
FidelityFX Super Resolution: Disabled (Highest Quality) – Avoid, causes smudged appearance
NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: Enabled – If you are CPU-bound, use Boost