Introduction
Fragpunk is a 5v5 hero-based tactical shooter with hints of arena-based shooters added in. It’s a fun and exciting game that also runs exceptionally well, and it’s also free-to-play, meaning that there’s nothing holding players back from trying it out. Its fun mix of different gameplay elements has drawn tons of players in already, and if you’re one of those new players you’ve come to the right place. In this Fragpunk settings guide, we’ll save you the research so that you can get started with optimal settings right away.
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Best Display and Video Settings for Fragpunk
Fragpunk is optimized decently and runs quite well on most modern systems. However, there is still a lot of room for improvement if you want to get consistently high framerates.
The Video section is broken down into three categories. Here are the best settings for each.
Display
| Setting | Setting Value | More Info |
|---|---|---|
| Display Screen | Your main monitor | Usually, this would be your highest refresh rate monitor. |
| Display Mode | Fullscreen or Borderless | Modern games don’t introduce input lag when set to borderless, so if you tab out a lot you can consider going with borderless. |
| Display Ratio | Monitor Default | Changing this can introduce a slight amount of input lag |
| Display Resolution | Monitor’s Native Resolution | You can lower this if you desperately need frames, but it shouldn’t be necessary. |
| FOV | Max (125) | We prefer a wide FOV so that we can see all of the action. However, wider FOVs also require more rendering, which can lower framerates. If you’re struggling for frames, you can turn this down somewhat. |
| Filter | Highlight | This is mostly down to personal preference, but Highlight is a good option, as it brightens up the map a bit. |
| Post Processing Intensity | None | Purely eye-candy. |
| Menu Frame Rate Limit | 60 | No need for extra frames on the menu screen |
| Gameplay Framerate Limit | Unlimited | If you find that unlimited gives you an inconsistent experience, you can always cap the framerate to your monitor’s native resolution. |
| Out-of-Focus Framerate Limit | Unlimited | This is the framerate for when you tab out. Seeing as you’re not going to be tabbing out when actually playing, this setting doesn’t really have any impact. |
| Brightness | Personal Preference | Adjust according to your liking |
| Sharpen | Personal Preference | Consider increasing it if you are using Upscaling technologies like DLSS or FSR. |
| Vertical-Sync | Off | It synchronizes framerate with the refresh rate to reduce screen tearing, but it introduces a lot of input lag, so turn this off. |
| Anti-tearing | Off | Only turn it on if you experience screen tearing that’s ruining your experience. |
| Graphics API | Experiment with DX11 and 12 to see what works best with your system. | Generally, DX12 is better for newer systems, whereas DX11 is for older PCs. |
Visual Simplification
Visual Simplification is a neat feature in Fragpunk. As the name suggests, it allows you to simplify the game’s visual fidelity. But, apart from that there are some important settings hidden in it that you should definitely consider turning on.
First of which is the Dead Effect. Turning it off will disable the enemies death animation which can often be distracting. Similarly, turning On UI Info Simplification and UI Animation Simplification can declutter your HUD.
As for the visual settings, you can choose between three options: Standard, Simplified, and Minimalistic. Simplified is a good balance between performance and quality, but if you want even more performance, set it to Minimalistic.
| Setting | Setting Value |
|---|---|
| Material Complexity | Simplified |
| Light Complexity | Simplified |
| Scene Saturation | Simplified |
| Effects Complexity | Simplified |
| Dead Effect | Off |
| Damage Numbers | Off |
| UI Info Simplification | On |
| UI Animation Simplification | On |
Graphics Quality Settings
Graphics Quality Settings basically controls how your game looks. Generally, we will be disabling or lowering down all eye-candy settings that can eat frames.
| Setting | Setting Value | More Info |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Presets | Custom | Allows you to finetune your settings. |
| Upscaling and Anti-Aliasing | Depends on Your GPU | Choose FSR 2 with Performance for AMD GPUs or NVIDIA Image Scaling with Performance for NVIDIA GPUs. You can also set it to NOAA with 100% if you don’t want to use any upscaling. |
| Mesh Quality | Low | Controls how detailed far-away objects are. Low yields the best performance |
| Shadow Quality | Low | Shadows are useful for spotting enemies, but low shadows still give you all the info you need. |
| Post Processing | Low | Purely eye-candy. |
| Texture Quality | Low | Controls how detailed textures are—another eye-candy setting. |
| Effect Quality | Low | Another eye-candy setting. |
| Screen Space Reflections | High | Reflections can be useful so we’ve chosen to leave them on. |
| Weapon Depth of Field | Off | Blurs the surrounding area when you ADS, which reduces visual clarity. |
| Weapon Dynamic Blur | Off | This adds blur to your weapons. It doesn’t really hinder gameplay, but we find it best to disable all motion blur. |
| Scene Dynamic Blur | Off | This is a motion blur setting. Turn it off to enhance visual clarity. |
| Ray Tracing | Off | Makes things look more realistic, but puts huge stress on your GPU and eats a ton of frames. |
| SSGi | On | Only when Screen Space Reflections is set to High or above. |
| UI Resolution | High | Doesn’t affect in-game FPS. |
| Animation Physical | On | Affects cosmetics. You can leave this off if you don’t really care about cosmetics. |
Best Crosshair Settings for Fragpunk
Much like other tactical shooters, Fragpunk allows you to create, export, and import crosshairs. You can go with any crosshair you want, but if you are having trouble figuring it out, here are some commonly used crosshairs you can try.
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Best Keyboard/Controller Settings and Sensitivity for Fragpunk
The Keyboard and Controller tabs allow you to customize bindings. As with all games, this is down to personal preference. Just make sure to go with settings that you’re comfortable with, and make sure that you can reach all of your useful abilities with ease.
One bind we’d recommend changing is the walk bind, since Fragpunk has an unusual movement system. There are three different walks, the standard shift walk, the default jog, and sprint. In most cases, you will either be sprinting or shift walking. However, the shift walk is on the Alt button by default so you will have to change it to shift. If you enable auto-sprint in your settings, you don’t have a reason to bind a specific sprint key.
Conclusion
Fragpunk has gotten a lot of positive reviews since its release. People have been enjoying this unique mix of arena and tactical shooters. Plus, the game has been nicely optimized and runs quite well even on default settings. These settings are tuned to get you the best performance possible though, so you can frag out at your best potential.
