Arena Breakout Infinite settings for best performance/clarity

Here is my updated guide for the official release of Arena Breakout Infinite.

This guide will focus on two things:

1. Getting the most fps and the lowest latency

2. Best visual clarity in the game

First we will look at the game settings, then other Windows/drivers related settings which can help you gain more performance out of the game. As usual, make sure you are up to date with your graphics drivers and Windows updates. I would recommend Windows 11 if you want the best performance, once de-bloated and configured it works very well. If you need help with this and want me to also look at your computer in general, update your bios, overclock your CPU/RAM/GPU and make recommendations you can visit my website, or email me if you have any questions.

In game settings

This part is pretty straight forward, simply copy the settings below.

This will in no way make the game look "pretty". Some textures might look mushy or slightly pixelated. In the distance, a lot of clutter will be removed for better clarity.

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Field of View is a personal choice, but I prefer the highest to see as much as possible in front of me.

Field of View: use whatever you are comfortable with, this will not effect performance overall but the higher this number, the wider view you will get.

Head Shake: to Low, who wants head shake anyway?

Border Brightness Settings: to High, this will make lootable items easier to spot.

Firing Blur: Off, we don't want blurriness when we shoot, do we?

Focal Point: this is also a personal choice, it will show a dot in the center of the screen. It will not represent where your bullets really go when you are hip firing which can distract you from actually hitting your target.

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Aspect Ratio: use whatever you like but I would recommend sticking to your actual monitor ratio.

Screen Resolution: you should always use your native monitor resolution. Playing in another resolution than your native one can make the image blurry.

Screen Mode: Windowed Full-Screen 

On Windows 11, this will give you the best performance/latency.

Monitor: Use your best monitor!

Max FPS: 240 

We want as much FPS as possible. If your PC is not struggling too much with bottleneck this will always give you the best latency. If your FPS fluctuate too much and feels inconsistent to the point where it bothers you then you might want to cap it to your average. This might happen if your CPU is not able to keep up with your GPU (CPU bottleneck or temper ature issue).

V-Sync: Off 

V-Sync is extremely bad for performance and will greatly increase latency. It will fix screen tearing but at a heavy price. Using G-Sync/Freesync is a better option but I would generally avoid using any variable refresh rate option.

Enable Main Screen Frame Rate Limit: Off 

Personal choice, I prefer my menus to be super fluid but it will make your GPU work more during your menus idle time.

Variable Rate Rendering: On 

This setting will focus rendering performance at the center of the screen/important parts of the scene and can make the image at the edges a little bit blurrier. Increases FPS with little to no visual impact.

Super Sampling Settings (NVIDIA)

Super Sampling Type: Nvidia DLSS 

Using DLSS can improve performance and improve visual clarity and sharpness. DLSS4 is known to add a lot of sharpening already, so take this into account when you tweak the Post-Processing Sharpness.

Super Sampling Quality: Quality or Balanced

If you have a really decent GPU go with Quality

Frame Interpolation: Disable 

This setting is frame generation to insert "fake frames" between real frames to increase perceived smoothness. This will dramatically increase input lag and will cause artifacts and blurriness in the image. In an online multiplayer game like ABI I would not use FG at all.

NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency: Enhanced or Low Latency

Greatly reduce latency overall, one of the best setting to improve responsiveness. Go with Enhanced if you have a really good CPU/GPU combo.

Super Sampling Settings (AMD)

For AMD, I would prefer to only use FSR if we can use FSR4. The reason being that the older FSR can add quite some blurriness to the game.

If you have an AMD GPU that is older and you are really struggling with frame rate you might still want to use it to gain some performance.

FSR4 should be available with the latest driver updates if you are using a 7000 series or a 9000 series AMD GPU.

Super Sampling Type: AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution or None

Super Sampling Type: Quality or Balanced

With FSR4, if you have a decent GPU, definitely go for Quality.

Frame Interpolation: Disable 

this setting is frame generation to insert "fake frames" between real frames to increase perceived smoothness. This will dramatically increase input lag and will cause artifacts and blurriness in the image. In an online multiplayer game like ABI I would not use FG at all.

Detailed Settings

Texture Quality: Basic or higher

If you have a decent GPU you can definitely use Quality or Maximum, this will make the game look much better and it may not impact FPS that much. Depending at which resolution you are playing (1080p,1440p,4k) this can have major impact on performance if you go above your GPU memory. If you simply want the best performance and you don't care about the overall graphics then simply set this to Basic

8GB-: Basic

12GB: Quality or Maximum16GB: Maximum

View Distance: Quality or Maximum

Can be adjusted but I would use Quality or Maximum. This will impact two things, first, how far some objects will render, second, the level of detail which will be loaded the closer you get to the objects. If you feel like you are still struggling with FPS you can try to lower this but I would try to keep it at Quality.

Post-Processing

For the Post-Processing Settings, you should not copy exactly settings from someone else. Your monitor could have completely different colors from another person's monitor.

You should play with this to your satisfaction. Your monitor could be way darker or less colorful than somebody else monitor so there is no "right" settings here.

Just know that for AMD or Nvidia you can also tweak the colors in the Nvidia Control Panel or the Adrenaline software. You can also tweak colors directly on your monitor. If you have a monitor that has Black Equalizer or Dark Stabilizer function, you could definitely try to up those settings (will make darker regions less intense).

I personally don't use the Post-Processing options in ABI but most people will use Sharpness between 1 to 3.

If you have and Nvidia GPU I would first change the the Digital Vibrance for more vibrant colors.

Play with this setting as you please, some people with set this to as high as 100%

Enabling DLSS4 and FSR4

For NVIDIA graphics card follow this tutorial for the best settings overall then continue with the next steps below.

For AMD graphics card go to this section

(NVIDIA) Enabling DLSS 4 for the game

DLSS4 is very nice tool to enhance your game. First, it can potentially give you more performance if you are GPU bound. Second, it can make the game look much better and sharper in my opinion. By default the game uses an older version of DLSS if you enable it but you can force the newer and better version by doing the following:

Download Nvidia Profile Inspector here (v.2.4.0.27) you can download latest releases here.

Unzip the archive and then execute "nvidiaProfileInspector.exe" as administrator.

Select Arena Breakout Infinite up top.

Then go to section 5 (5 - Common)

On DLSS - Enable DLL Override , select "On - DLSS overridden by latest available".

You can also set DLSS - Forced Preset Letter to "Always use latest".

Don't forget to click on "Apply changes".

(AMD) Enabling FSR4 and other useful settings

First, make sure your drivers are up to date in the Adrenaline software.

Then head in the Gaming section up top and select Arena Breakout Infinite.

With the newest driver you can enable FSR4 for your game if you have a 7000 or 9000 series AMD GPU. Just as with DLSS, this setting should give you better performance if you are already using 100% of your GPU in game. FSR4 should also give you better clarity and overall image quality (way better than older FSR versions). Try it out and see if you like it, even if it would not increase performance in general, you might like the visual difference.

Enable FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 to use the latest FSR version.

If you are using 100% of your GPU, Radeon Anti-Lag can give you better latency. If enabling this setting introduce stuttering, disable it.

Instead of using the in game sharpening in the Post-Processing menu, you can use the Radeon Image Sharpening 2 to sharpen your game. Tune it to your liking and set the in game sharpening to 0 if you use it.

Enable FSR in game and you should be using FSR4 from now on (7000 and 9000 series only for now).

Windows and other driver settings

Make sure these options are enabled in the windows graphics settings (need a restart to apply):

Then enable these options for the game. If the game is not present in the list, make sure to add it manually via the "Add desktop app" button. The game .exe should be named "UAGame.exe" (situated in the game installation folder wherever you installed it).

Other considerations

Recording gameplay can cause performance issues. Make sure not to make the quality too high for your videos if you use the nvidia overlay, Medal, Moments (Steelseries) or any other recording software. If you have more than one drive, you can record videos on a different drive than the one where your game is installed to reduce the performance impact.

Overlays on top of your game can sometimes cause issues. If they are not entirely needed I would disable them. Here are a few examples.

Discord overlay

NVIDIA overlay

Make sure to disable the automatic Nvidia optimizations

AMD overlay

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