Best Settings for Stalker 2 on PC - STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Guide - IGN (2024)

The system requirements to run Stalker 2 well are a fair range from older GTX 1060 graphics cards to the latest RTX 4080s. However, even with the newest graphics card and CPUs, you may find yourself wanting to optimize Stalker 2 further to ensure you maximize the frames per second and eliminate gameplay lag or hitches. Here are the best settings you should utilize for your PC build in Stalker 2.

PC Spec Requirements

First, check to see that your rig is able to run Stalker 2 at the lowest settings by confirming the minimum system requirements. These settings were listed by the System Requirements guide on Stalker 2'sofficial website.

Minimum

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600x or Intel Core i7-7700K
• Ram: 16 GB DDR4 Dual Channel
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB or NVIDIA GeForce 1060 6 GB or Intel Arc A750
• OS: Windows 10/11

Maximum

• CPU: Intel Core i7-13700KF or AMD Ryzen 7 7700X
• Ram: 32 GB
• GPU: Nvidia RTX 4080 or AMD 7900 XTX
• OS: Windows 10/11

Best Settings

While you can always set Stalker 2 to the preset graphical settings, we highly recommend following these specific selections for the best performance for your PC build while maintaining fair quality.

Lowest Settings for Performance

These settings are the best for lower end PCs that may struggle with higher quality tweaks to improve graphics. While this may sacrifice some texture quality, your framerate should stay more consistent and raise performance.

Graphics

• Overall Quality: Custom

Object Quality

• Texture Quality: Medium
• Hair: Low
• Object Details: Medium
• Effects Qualtiy: Medium
• Materials: Medium

Post Processing

• Post Processing: Medium
• Antialiasing: Low
• Motion Blur Strength: Low
• Depth of Field: Low
• Light Shafts: disabled
• Sharpness: 20%

Performance Boost

• Upscaling Method: DLSS
• Upscaling Quality: Performance
• DLSS Frame Generation: Auto
• FSR 3 Frame Generation: Disabled

Shading Quality

• Shading Quality: Low
• Global Illumination: Low
• Reflections: Low
• Shadow Quality: Low

Environment Quality

• Clouds: Low
• Fog: Low
• Sky: Low
• Foliage Quality: Low
• Environment Draw Distance: Near

Display

• Graphics Card: Installed Card
• Display: Main Display

Display Mode

• Screen Mode: Fullscreen [Exclusive]
• Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080

Viewport

• Aspect Ratio: Auto
• Field of View: 100

Frame Control

• V-Sync: Disabled
• Frame Rate: 60

Mid to Higher Settings for Performance

These settings are the best for mid to higher end PCs that can handle more taxing graphics. While these don't boost textures and graphics to the max, this selection of settings balance quality and performance for mid tier PCs and for players who may want to stream Stalker 2 on the same PC (single PC build).

Graphics

• Overall Quality: Custom

Object Quality

• Texture Quality: Epic
• Hair: Medium
• Object Details: High
• Effects Quality: High
• Materials: High

Post Processing

• Post Processing: High
• Antialiasing: High
• Motion Blur Strength: 0%
• Depth of Field: Low
• Light Shafts: Enabled
• Sharpness: 20%

Performance Boost

• Upscaling Method: DLSS
• Upscaling Quality: Balanced
• DLSS Frame Generation: Auto
• FSR 3 Frame Generation: Disabled

Shading Quality

• Shading Quality: High
• Global Illumination: High
• Reflections: High
• Shadow Quality: High

Environment Quality

• Clouds: High
• Fog: High
• Sky: High
• Foliage Quality: High
• Environment Draw Distance: Medium

Display

• Graphics Card: Installed Card
• Display: Main Display

Display Mode

• Screen Mode: Fullscreen Borderless
• Display Resolution: Native Resolution

Viewport

• Aspect Ratio: Auto
• Field of View: 100

Frame Control

• V-Sync: Disabled
• Frame Rate: 120

Highest Settings for Quality

These settings are the best higher end PCs that can handle more taxing graphics. These settings are ideal for PCs with updated CPUs and Graphics cards.

Consider these settings for your set up if you're looking to just play on your updated PC build without streaming simultaneously on the same PC. However, if you plan to use a dual PC streaming build, these settings are the best to utilize for the gaming PC which your streaming PC will use a capture card to record gameplay.

Graphics

• Overall Quality: Custom

Object Quality

• Texture Quality: Epic
• Hair: Epic
• Object Details: Epic
• Effects Quality: Epic
• Materials: Epic

Post Processing

• Post Processing: Epic
• Antialiasing: Epic
• Motion Blur Strength: 0%
• Depth of Field: Low
• Light Shafts: Enabled
• Sharpness: 20%

Performance Boost

• Upscaling Method: DLSS
• Upscaling Quality: Quality or DLAA
• DLSS Frame Generation: Auto
• FSR 3 Frame Generation: Disabled

Shading Quality

• Shading Quality: Epic
• Global Illumination: Epic
• Reflections: Epic
• Shadow Quality: Epic

Environment Quality

• Clouds: Epic
• Fog: Epic
• Sky: Epic
• Foliage Quality: Epic
• Environment Draw Distance: Epic

Display

• Graphics Card: Installed Card
• Display: Main Display

Display Mode

• Screen Mode: Fullscreen Borderless
• Display Resolution: Native Resolution

Viewport

• Aspect Ratio: Auto
• Field of View: 100

Frame Control

• V-Sync: Disabled
• Frame Rate: Unlimited