Best The Finals settings for PC

If you're jumping back into this free-to-play shooter for Season Eight, we've got an updated guide to the best The Finals settings that you need to be using. After a ton of optimizations, the game runs so much better than it did at launch, specifically on older gaming hardware, so it's well worth seeing what impact these updates have had on your performance.

A unique game, The Finals is a team-based shooter with mechanics that mostly revolve around mass destruction and money hoarding. Will you need one of the best graphics cards from our buying guide to play it? No, but while it's not the most demanding game, The Finals system requirements can ramp up quite a bit once you look past its minimum specs.

• VSync - Disabled
• Nvidia Reflex Low Latency - On
• Resolution Scaling Method - DLSS (for Nvidia RTX GPUs only)
• DLSS setting - Quality
• RTX Global Illumination - Medium - Dynamic
• View Distance - High
• Anti-Aliasing - High
• Shadows - High
• Post-Processing - High
• Texture - High
• Effects - High
• Foliage - High
• Global Illumination Resolution - Medium
• Nvidia Frame Generation - 2x

With the above settings, we achieved an average frame rate of 205fps, with 1% lows of 78fps while at 1,920 x 1,080. At 2,560 x 1,440, this dropped marginally to an average of 199fps with 1% lows of 75fps. Finally, at 4K, the average frame rate was 131fps with 1% lows of 47fps.

The Finals runs fantastically now compared to at launch, but after eight seasons of updates, it's to be expected. Previously, a lot of stutter was present no matter how you ran the game, but this is now eliminated entirely, even when running the game with Nvidia DLSS and frame generation enabled.

Graphically speaking, the jump between the highest and lowest preset isn't huge, with the main differences being details lost at distance and smoother edges to models. The lighting is where the biggest differences lie, as you can see in the comparison image below (right-click and open in a new tab to see the full image in greater detail). Light is absorbed by the matted textures at the low preset, while it reflects accurately when using the high preset.

The Finals best gameplay settings

There aren't many gameplay settings to consider in The Finals, but here is what we changed in the game, and we'll also highlight some of the key changes.

• Crossplay - On
• Matchmaking Region - Local
• Use Enemy Team Colors - On
• Field of View - 100
• Motion Blur - Disabled
• Lens Distortion - Disabled

Field of View

Key in any shooter to help you fully take in your surroundings, Field of View comes preset at well below 100. We suggest cranking this all the way back up, and in an ideal world, the option would expand to 120 at launch.

Motion Blur

Motion blur is generally the scourge of most competitive shooters or any game where you need to be able to see clearly what's happening on screen and react quickly. As such, you should absolutely turn it off in this game. Some more atmospheric games can make good use of motion blur, such as we found in our Alan Wake 2 best settings testing, but in The Finals, you'll be putting yourself at a disadvantage by leaving it on.

Crossplay

A controversial topic, but for PC players using a mouse and keyboard, why not flip crossplay on and take on our console counterparts? In all seriousness, crossplay in The Finals allows for a larger search when matchmaking, so it's a great option to have on.

How we tested The Finals

At PCGamesN, we use specific gaming rigs to test the best settings for performance and gameplay in the latest releases. Currently, our test rigs include the following components: Intel Core i7 11700F, MSI Ventus Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, 32GB of DDR4 3200MHz RAM in a dual-channel configuration, and an MSI B560 motherboard. We also test using Windows 11 64-bit.

We use the same rigs to ensure that every game we test is done under fair conditions. We will occasionally upgrade these rigs to ensure they don't fall massively behind the market and what typical gamers are using based on Steam's hardware surveys, and this allows us to aim for the highest quality possible in every game we test.

Can you play The Finals on an HDD?

Yes! You can install and play The Finals on an HDD, although, as with any game, there are performance benefits to opting for an SSD instead. As such, opting for one of the best SSD picks from our extensive buying guide is something we strongly advise.

How to monitor performance in The Finals

If you want to keep an eye on performance in The Finals, which doesn't have in-built performance tracking, there's an easy method that works whether you're using an Nvidia or AMD graphics card.

For Nvidia cards, ensure you have GeForce Experience installed and the in-game overlay enabled, and 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.

Or, you can download Frameview, for a cleaner, more simplified benchmarking option that works with any graphics card.

If you're running into Error 500 in The Finals, we may be able to help, but in the meantime, check out the best battle royale games on PC for inspiration on what to play next.

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