Best Delta Force settings for PC and Steam Deck

With changes coming thick and fast to this free-to-play first-person shooter, finding the best Delta Force settings for PC can quickly become a time-consuming task. In-depth menus are intimidating, but we've taken on the task of figuring out the best graphics and display settings to give you the best balance of visuals and performance, saving you time and getting you playing much sooner.

As a taut, team-based, tactical first-person shooter, Delta Force is all about balancing enough detail to keep a keen eye on the battlefield, while also maximizing your frame rate for a smooth feel and accurate aiming. All that means you'll be wanting a decent GPU to get anywhere with the game. However, the Delta Force system requirements aren't as demanding as you might imagine, so you don't absolutely have to have the very latest and best graphics card in your system to still have a great time.

• Graphics Preset: Custom
• Graphics Style: Default
• Weapon Motion Blur: Off
• Reflections: High
• Texture Filtering: High
• Ambient Occlusion: High
• Particles: High
• Distortion: High
• Scene Details: High
• Scene View Details: High
• Rendering Scale: 100
• Depth of Field: Off
• Global Illumination Quality: High
• Shaders: High
• Textures: High
• Streaming: High
• Shadows: High
• Shadow Map: High
• Post-Processing: High
• Volumetric Fog: High
• Animation: High
• Super Resolution Mode: Off
• Super Resolution: Off
• Nvidia Reflex: On (if you have a Nvidia graphics card)

Display

• Monitor: Your preferred gaming monitor
• Display Adapter: Auto
• Display Mode: Fullscreen
• Display Refresh Rate: Your monitor's maximum refresh rate.
• Show Aspect Ratio: Auto
• Brightness: 50
• Frame Rate Cap: Unlimited
• Sharpness: 50
• V-Sync: Off
• Default FOV: 120
• Scope Magnification: On

While Delta Force Black Hawk Down is more of a single-player focused experience, Delta Force is, at its heart, a competitive multiplayer first-person shooter. As such, while the game looks good if you turn on all the graphical details, getting a solid frame rate of well above 60fps - ideally over 120fps - should be your priority.

Thankfully, for our RTX 4070-equipped test system, that was achievable with the game's graphics detail settings mostly maxed out, when running the game at 1080p. We recorded an average frame rate of 134fps with a decent 74fps 1% low frame rate, netting us a consistently smooth-feeling experience.

However, in an ideal world, we'd want to run the game at a slightly higher resolution. That's because the long draw distances and precision required to get the most from this game benefit from a few extra pixels. It's very much like CoD Warzone in this way.

Thankfully, after turning up the resolution to 1440p, we still achieved an average frame rate of 118fps, which is close enough to our target frame rate. The 1% low didn't drop at all either, suggesting the occasional dips in frame rate are more CPU-dependent than a strain on your graphics card.

When we cranked the resolution up to 4K, though, the game took a big hit to performance. It registered just a 71fps average with a 47fps 1% low, and the game felt noticeably difficult to play because of it. It's at this point that you might want to consider turning on DLSS upscaling or frame generation. However, we'd recommend sticking to 1440p instead of running at 4K with upscaling or frame generation. That's because these technologies can introduce visual oddities and slight lag to the game, which can affect your aim.

Meanwhile, if you're struggling to hit the frame rates we're getting, we recommend turning down most of the in-game detail settings before opting to try upscaling or frame generation in this title.

There are a few settings we'd also just always recommend leaving turned off in a competitive shooter such as this one, mainly motion blur and depth of field effects. These effects can look cinematic for single-player first-person shooters, but can get in the way when you're competing. You should always keep V-Sync turned off, too, to avoid stutter, though do use AMD Freesync or Nvidia G-Sync if they're available to you.

Best Delta Force settings for Steam Deck

Delta Force isn't currently playable on the Steam Deck when running SteamOS; this is due to the anti-cheat being incompatible with Linux. This is also the case for games like Destiny 2 and Apex Legends, but there is a way around it.

You can opt to dual-boot your Steam Deck with Windows 11, which will create a workaround for Delta Force to run despite the anti-cheat implementation. This anti-cheat issue is recent, according to player reports on ProtonDB, with the mid-season update being the cause of this change.

Delta Force graphics presets

Below are the six Delta Force graphics presets and the VRAM usage of each one with no DLSS/FSR/XeSS selected.

• Low - 2.61GB
• Medium - 2.91GB
• High - 3.59GB
• Ultra - 4.07GB
• Extreme - 5.13GB
• Ultimate - 5.69 GB

Delta Force has quite an in-depth settings menu, covering a ton of graphics and display options. This can quite understandably be a bit intimidating, which is why we've assembled our best settings guide. A VRAM calculator is included in the menu, and this splits usage between what Delta Force requires and what other active programs on your PC are using too.

However, if you find that you're not getting the performance you desire from our custom settings, you can check out the above presets to see whether these are more appropriate for your gaming PC.

How we test Delta Force

At PCGamesN, we use dedicated gaming rigs to test the best settings for performance and gameplay in the latest releases. The test rig used for Stalker 2 includes the following components: Intel Core i7 11700F, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 12GB, 32GB of DDR4 3,200MHz RAM, MSI B560 motherboard. We also test using Windows 11 64-bit.

We always run our testing first at 1,920 x 1,080 to identify the best settings at the most commonly played resolution, then again at 2,560 x 1,440 and even 4K using the same setup to gauge the difference in performance. We use CapFrameX to capture frame data and compare testing sessions.

Does Delta Force require an SSD?

Delta Force doesn't require the best gaming SSD, or any SSD at all, for that matter. But given that some in-game loading times on our WD Blue SN580 SSD are a little longer than we'd like, particularly when loading into matches, using a mechanical drive would likely see this wait extended even further.

How to monitor performance in Delta Force

If you want to keep an eye on performance in Delta Force, you can follow these instructions to find an easy method that works whether you're using an Nvidia or AMD graphics card.

For Nvidia cards, ensure you have GeForce Experience or the Nvidia App installed and the in-game overlay enabled. Then hit Alt + R in-game to bring up your performance monitor. With AMD cards, you can enable performance monitoring via the Radeon overlay using the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + O.

Alternatively, you can download free software such as CapFrameX or Nvidia FrameView to get a cleaner, more simplified benchmarking tool that works with any graphics card.

If you need to upgrade your hardware to start playing Delta Force, follow our handy guide on how to build a gaming PC, which takes you through the process step by step from start to finish.

And that concludes our best Delta Force settings guide. If you're looking to find out more about the game, check out our Delta Force weapons and Delta Force operators guides, which each explain these crucial features of the game.

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