007 First Light PC Settings Guide

While 007 First Light is the archetypal really bully James Bond crippled successful rather immoderate time, developer IO Interactive has been making well-optimized PC games for years. It’s not surprising, then, that 007 First Light runs highly well, astatine slightest erstwhile you wide its somewhat steep strategy requirements.

The crippled requires conscionable an AMD Radeon RX 5700 oregon a GeForce GTX 1660 to run, but its recommended spec is an RTX 3060 Ti oregon a 6700 XT. That’s rather a difference, but I volition accidental that aft investigating the 3060 Ti astatine 1080p, it runs incredibly well, though the debased VRAM means you’ll astir apt privation to crook down the texture prime a bit, adjacent astatine that little resolution.

In fact, the textures successful this crippled are similar a small sponge for video memory, and if you privation to max it retired astatine immoderate resolution, you’re going to privation to marque definite you’re packing a GPU with astatine slightest 12GB of the stuff. And, astatine higher resolutions, you’re astir apt going to privation to bump that request up to 16GB if you truly privation to debar immoderate stuttering.

No Presets

Unlike a batch of PC games these days, 007 First Light doesn’t person graphics presets. There is simply a fastener successful the settings paper that’ll acceptable everything to default, but astatine slightest connected the pre-release physique I was testing, this conscionable acceptable everything down to its minimum setting.

While this isn’t a immense woody for anyone that’s going to beryllium tinkering with the settings anyways, it does mean you can’t conscionable prime an enactment and commencement playing close retired of the gate. Or astatine slightest you can’t if you don’t privation to beryllium staring astatine aliased handrails for 20 hours (or nevertheless agelong this crippled is, I didn’t decorativeness it yet).

There truly aren’t that galore idiosyncratic settings to tweak, though, truthful uncovering the saccharine spot for your PC shouldn’t instrumentality too much time. And, for astir radical who conscionable the recommended setting, it mostly comes down to mounting astir things to precocious and past conscionable deciding if you privation to prioritize framework complaint oregon a higher basal resolution.

The Settings

Just similar with Forza Horizon 6’s PC settings, I acceptable retired to marque 007 First Light tally arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable connected the RTX 5070 astatine 4K. Unlike Forza, though, getting to 60 fps astatine a autochthonal 4K successful First Light with the RTX 5070 is fundamentally impossible. Even with everything acceptable to low, I got astir 40-45 fps. That mightiness beryllium capable for immoderate people, but this is 1 of those games wherever I’d urge upscaling for beauteous overmuch everyone. The crippled looks incredible with higher prime settings, and arsenic agelong arsenic you person immoderate benignant of upscaling, a GPU similar the RTX 5070 oregon the Radeon 9070 tin easy tally astatine 60-70 fps.

Even the much-weaker RTX 3060 Ti tin easy deed a precocious framework complaint astatine 1080p, conscionable arsenic agelong arsenic you usage DLSS astatine the Quality preset. The 3060 Ti tin adjacent agelong up to 1440p, but it volition beryllium overmuch harder to support 60 fps. Just get acceptable to crook things down a spot if you privation to determination up to a higher resolution.

007 First LIght volition tally connected the Steam Deck, too, but I wouldn’t really urge it. You tin get the crippled moving astatine astir 30 fps astir of the time, but it comes with immoderate beauteous terrible stuttering problems, particularly erstwhile you’re playing it connected artillery power. More almighty handhelds similar the Xbox Ally X volition fare a spot better, but this is simply a crippled that is decidedly intended much for fully-fledged gaming PCs than handhelds.

While 007 First Light does tally good connected modern hardware, you’re going to privation to dial successful the settings to find the cleanable equilibrium betwixt representation prime and performance. And, well, I went up and recovered that saccharine spot for some the RTX 5070 and the RTX 3060 Ti.

Transfer Function: This conscionable affects however representation information is encoded for your monitor. For astir people, I’d urge mounting it to 2.2 and forgetting astir it. If you tally into ocular glitches, you tin acceptable it to sRGB to troubleshoot, but you’ll get lighter blacks. And since this is simply a stealth game, you’ll beryllium looking astatine acheronian scenes a lot. Mid-Range PC and Handheld: 2.2

Resolution Scaling: These are conscionable upscaling methods. As of close present lone 2 are selected, DLSS and FSR. For Nvidia users, usage DLSS, everyone other should usage FSR. Hopefully IO Interactive adds XeSS sometime soon.

DLSS Super Resolution and AMD FSR Upscaling resolution: This is simply the upscaling origin for whichever method you’re using. As a wide regularisation of thumb, I’d urge Performance for 4K, Balanced for 1440p and Quality for 1080p. However, if you person capable breathing room, you tin crook it up to marque the crippled look a spot nicer.

DLSS Frame Generation: It seems similar the lone benignant of framework gen that’s supported present is Nvidia’s mentation of the tech. Whether oregon not you usage it is wholly up to you, but it tin unlock highly precocious framework rates astatine the outgo of latency and immoderate insignificant ocular artifacts. Luckily, 007 First Light supports Dynamic Multi Frame Generation close retired of the box, truthful you won’t adjacent request to messiness with the Nvidia app to usage it.

Texture Quality: Texture Quality changes the solution of each the textures successful the game. In my testing, this is by acold the biggest interaction connected VRAM. If you’re moving up against the limit, and luckily there’s a useful small barroom successful the little close country of the surface that’ll archer you that, I’d little this mounting first. But for the astir part, you’re astir apt going to beryllium GPU constricted earlier you’re VRAM limited. Mid-Range PC: Ultra, Handheld: Low

Texture Filter: No substance what crippled I’m playing, texture filtering is 1 of the past things I touch. Even maxing this retired won’t impact show that much, and the crippled volition commencement looking precise level erstwhile you commencement turning it down. Mid-Range PC: 16x, Handheld: 4x

Level of Detail: This affects exemplary resolution, and successful 007 First Light IO Interactive has worked immoderate benignant of magic to marque this mounting hardly impact performance. Going from Low to Ultra hardly touches the VRAM meter, and lone made for a quality of 2 fps connected the RTX 5070. Mid-Range PC: Ultra, Handheld: Medium

Terrain Quality: 007 First Light is afloat of beauteous environments, and this mounting mostly affects however bully the crushed looks astatine immoderate time. This volition impact immoderate scenes much than others, but I volition accidental that determination are plentifulness of driving scenes successful this crippled wherever having this mounting cranked up truly improves however the crippled looks. And due to the fact that it hardly impacts VRAM oregon your GPU performance, conscionable permission this cranked until you’re moving into show issues. Mid-Range PC: Ultra Handheld: Low

Shadow Quality: The lighting motor successful 007 First Light is wherever astir radical are going to tally into show issues. Shadows are ray traced, and maxing them retired volition person a immense interaction connected some your show and your VRAM consumption. I’d permission this astatine precocious for the astir part, but if you’re connected a weaker GPU, this (along with the adjacent fewer settings) are the archetypal things I’d cut. Mid-Range PC: High Handheld: Low

Volumetric Fog Quality: This makes fog thicker and much realistic, but it tin interaction show rather a spot successful peculiarly foggy scenes – similar the opening mission. Volumetric Fog makes definite scenes look incredible, but this should beryllium 1 of the archetypal things you chopped if you’re falling abbreviated of 60 fps, particularly if determination are a batch of atmospheric effects going connected erstwhile your fps drops. Mid-Range PC: High Handheld: Low

Volumetric Effects Quality: You’d deliberation that Volumetric Fog would beryllium a Volumetric Effect, but it's abstracted for immoderate reason. Instead, this mostly affects volumetric lighting and smoke. This does look large maxed out, what with each the explosions successful the game, but it does travel with a beauteous precocious show cost. Mid-Range PC: High, Handheld: Low

Reflection Quality: This is conscionable me, but 1 of my favourite ray traced effects is reflections. Even 7 years aft I archetypal saw the noisy reflections successful Battlefield 5, I’m inactive blown distant by truly bully reflections. And 007 First Light has immoderate perfectly gorgeous reflections. This is 1 of the past lighting effects I’d crook down from a purely aesthetic perspective, but it does travel with a precocious capable show outgo that I’d urge turning it down a spot anyways. Mid-Range PC: High (Ultra if you’re adventurous) Handheld: Low

What follows each of these is simply a clump of toggles for post-processing effects, and nary of them truly interaction show each that much. In the descriptions for immoderate of them, developer IO Interactive warns that turning disconnected fullscreen blur effects and radial blur effects volition marque definite gameplay states harder to distinguish. I’ve spent astir 8 hours with this game, and each this means is that it’ll beryllium harder to archer erstwhile you’re debased connected life. That’s capable for maine to support these settings connected but if you really hate the effect, you tin astatine slightest crook it off.

Out of each the games I’ve tested truthful acold this year, 007 First Light is astir apt the astir demanding. That’s not to accidental that it’s not good optimised, though. Even connected the RTX 5070, you tin get an mean of astir 63-70 fps passim astir of the crippled pursuing these settings, and that fig volition lone spell up if you usage framework procreation – though that volition travel with a spot of a bump to latency.

As agelong arsenic you person a caller graphics card, you should person nary occupation moving astatine precocious settings with a decent framework rate. But dissimilar games similar Crimson Desert and Resident Evil Requiem, upscaling is simply a necessity for 4K, unless you’re packing thing similar an RTX 5080 oregon a Radeon RX 9070 XT.