¶ General
¶ Graphics API
Currently, only DirectX 11 is available.
It is planned that DirectX 12 will become available in the future, which should alleviate some performance issues related to CPU-bound scenarios.
At this time, no further information is available.
¶ Render Scale
Allows the game to render a scene in lower resolution and scale the image up to the target resolution.
As 2D User interfaces usually costs less performance and suffers more from lower resolution, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT does not apply this technique to UI.
There is a minor cost for the up-sampling pass, but usually, it is worth the effort.
Our recommendation is 100 (or Off), although in desperate cases you can use it in tandem with NVIDIA Graphics Enhancement to improve your framerate without significantly impacting image quality.
¶ Display Mode
- Windowed
- We do not recommend this mode, as it is the most cost inefficient: your desktop, along other applications, must be rendered in that mode.
- Borderless Windowed
- Since late Windows 10 builds and early Windows 11 builds, this mode can be used with almost no performance repercussions.
- Fullscreen
- The safest way to go for performance (especially with DirectX 11), as it prevents the Operating System from rendering desktop elements, wasting potential performance.
Our recommendation is Fullscreen.
¶ Resolution
Resolution indicates the maximum amount of pixels that can be shown on a digital device's screen.
The resolution is typically given as two units, with horizontal pixels followed by vertical ones: for instance, 1920x1080.
Usually, you'd want this setting to match your monitor's native screen resolution. Although, in specific cases, such as when enabling DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution) or DLDSR (Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution), the game allows the user to go above native resolution.
In this case, setting a higher resolution is probably the way to go if you can use NVIDIA DLSS in combination.
- For normal use cases, we recommend setting the screen resolution to your
native screen resolution. - With DSR/DLDSR enabled with DLSS, we recommend setting the
highest resolution available.
¶ Max Frame Rate
The Max Frame Rate option values will depend on your screen refresh rate.
For example, in the case of a 240Hz and 144Hz monitor, the following options will be available:
| 240Hz | 144Hz |
|---|---|
| 30 | 36 |
| 60 | 72 |
| 120 | 144 |
| 240 | 288 |
| 480 | 576 |
| Unlimited | Unlimited |
This feature is useful to leverage G-Sync/FreeSync technology, as it can be used to cap the framerate below or at the monitor's refresh rate, preventing screen tearing.
If your monitor does not support any of these technologies:
- Enabling V-Sync and uncapping framerate can eliminate screen tearing at the cost of increased input lag.
- Disabling V-Sync and uncapping framerate can add screen tearing at low or close-to monitor's refresh rate, but eliminates it if you can reach high framerate, with the most minimal input lag possible.
Recommendation:
- If you have a monitor that has a refresh rate above
144Hz, and have G-Sync or FreeSync enabled: set the max frame rate to yourmonitor's refresh rate. - In any other cases: set the max frame rate to
Unlimited.
¶ Filter
Available options:
- Default
- Shimmering Waters
- Tender
- Valley Springs
- Wildgrass
This option is personal preference and does not affect performance.
Each filter has a different effect on post-processing effects:
| Filter | Effect |
|---|---|
| Shimmering Waters |
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| Tender |
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| Valley Springs |
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| Wildgrass |
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- To make Focus attacks pop on the screen, consider using
TenderorShimmering Waters. - To increase usable field of view, consider using
Shimmering Waters.
Our recommendation is Default.
¶ HDR Display
This setting is currently unavailable.
It is expected to become usable once DirectX 12 is released in the game.
¶ Brightness
Brightness is mostly a preference setting and depends on your monitor Gamma setting.
Adjust it to your preference.
¶ VSync
VSync, or vertical sync, is a graphics technology that synchronizes the frame rate of a game with a monitor’s refresh rate to prevent screen tearing.
This technology locks the framerate and introduces a buffer that increases input lag.
It is generally not recommended to use this setting if you care about competitivity (decreasing overall input lag at the cost of screen tearing).
Our recommendation is On for G-Sync enabled monitors that have a refresh rate above 144 Hz, otherwise set it to Off.
¶ Anti-aliasing Algorithm
Anti-aliasing is a display technique to make diagonal edges appear smoother by setting pixels near an edge to intermediate values according to where the edge crosses them.
The game implements two different techniques:
- SMAA (Subpixel Morphological Anti-Aliasing) is a technique for minimizing the distortion artifacts known as aliasing when representing a high-resolution image at a lower resolution.
- This technique is pretty good for still images but ignores the temporal aspect, leading to significant jaggies during movement. This technique also is not very cost-efficient in deferred rendering engines such as NARAKA: BLADEPOINT.
- TAA, on the other hand, almost completely solves the jaggies issues but introduces significant blur: it is a post-processing effect and is fairly cost-efficient.
Recommendation:
- If you're using DLSS: set to
Off. - If you cannot bear the jaggies and are unable use DLSS: set to
TAA.
¶ Motion Blur
Motion Blur enhances the sense of motion by introducing artificial blur when moving the camera and your hero.
Our recommendation is Off.
¶ NVIDIA DLSS
Available only for NVIDIA RTX GPUs.
DLSS stands for Deep Learning Super Sampling.
It's a type of video rendering technique that looks to boost framerates.
It renders frames at a lower resolution than native to improve performance and then upscales it back to native by using Deep Learning (a type of AI) so that they can look as sharp as native resolution.
This setting disables AA settings and includes in-house anti-aliasing which results in-par to what TAA can achieve with significantly less blur.
Our recommendations depending on your native (or DSR/DLDSR) resolution are:
| Resolution | Recommended Setting |
|---|---|
| 1080p | Quality |
| 1440p | Balanced |
| 4K | Performance |
| 8K | Ultra Performance |
¶ NVIDIA Graphics Enhancement
This setting leverages NVIDIA Image Scaling (NIS) as a driver-based spatial upscaler and sharpener.
This can be used in tandem with Render Scale and will deliver better results while upscaling back to native resolution.
Our recommendation is On.
¶ NVIDIA Reflex
Available only for NVIDIA GPUs.
NVIDIA Reflex delivers a low-latency mode that enables just-in-time rendering and optimizes system latency (click-to-display).
Available options are:
- Off
- Reflex
- Enables NVIDIA Reflex.
- Reflex+Boost
- Enables NVIDIA Reflex, sets pre-rendered frames to 0 and forces GPU to run in Maximum Performance mode.
Our recommendation is Reflex+Boost.
If you are on a laptop and battery efficiency and/or thermals is a concern, then you may consider using Reflex instead.
¶ NVIDIA Highlights
Toggles the automatic recording feature.
Our recommendation is Off.
¶ Graphics
¶ Quick Set Graphics
Available options are:
| Lowest | Low | Medium | High | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Our recommendation is to customize the settings instead of using the Quick Set Graphics feature.
¶ Modelling Accuracy
Available options are:
- Lowest
- Low
- Medium
- High
Modelling Accuracy greatly impacts overall system performance as it significantly increases draw calls and the amount of polygons drawn by the GPU.
- This setting greatly affects environment assets such as grass and debris: it reduces their view distance (meaning that the objects are no longer drawn from a shorter distance) and their complexity (patches of grass are thinner).
- This setting also affects culling distance on various meshes. This usually gives little to no competitive advantage as important objects such as players, Morus Blessings, etc. are only drawn at a maximum of
100mno matter the setting set.- The only exception being the
Lowestsetting which will cull quite important meshes under the100mthreshold, which may give out an enemy position.
- The only exception being the
Our recommendations:
- From a purely competitive standpoint, our recommendation is
Lowestas it reduces visual clutter and culls some big objects under100m. - If you care about graphics, you can safely set this value to
Low.
Note: This setting does NOT affect interactibles view distance such as Celestra's Water Wheel, Bells, Wells and even Characters. The view distance for these entities are always a fixed value of 100 meters.
¶ Tessellation
Available options are:
- Off
- Low
- Medium
- High
Tessellation splits triangles into smaller triangles at runtime to increase the surface detail of a mesh: the world position of the new vertices using the normal map and displacement map can create new surface details.
This setting only impacts GPU performance.
- From a purely competitive standpoint, our recommendation is
Off. - If you care about graphics and have a fairly modern GPU[1], you can safely set this value to
Medium.
¶ Effects
Available options are:
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Highest
This setting impacts overall system performance.
Due to how effects are optimized, using Low can reduce visual clutter at the cost of important clues such as Justina Gu's V3 frost fog effect and some Focus Attacks.
Even if this setting increases visual clutter and negatively impacts system performance, using Medium or High helps in many combat circumstances.
Our recommendation is Medium.
¶ Textures
Available options are:
- Lowest
- Low
- Medium
- High
This setting only impacts GPU VRAM allocation along with a slightly higher GPU usage.
- From a purely competitive standpoint, our recommendation is
Lowest. - If you care about graphics and have a fairly modern GPU[1:1], we recommend
Medium.
¶ Shadows
Available options are:
- Lowest
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Highest
Shadows have a fairly negative impact on the overall system performance.
Unfortunately, shadows can be fairly distracting if they lack transparency.
- From a purely competitive standpoint, our recommendation is
Lowest. - If you care about graphics and have a fairly modern GPU[1:2], you can safely set this value to
Low.
¶ Volumetric Lighting
Available options are:
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Highest
Volmetric Lighting simulates mid-air lighting effects (i.e. Godrays).
This setting increases visual clutter and negatively impacts GPU performance.
Our recommendation is Low.
¶ Volumetric Clouds
Available options are:
- Off
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Highest
Volumetric Clouds increases cloud and light scattering details.
This setting greatly impacts GPU performance.
Our recommendation is Off.
¶ Ambient Occlusion
Available options are:
- Off
- Low
- Highest
SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion) is an effect that approximates the attenuation of light due to geometric occlusion.
This is a subtle effect that increases the depth of the scenes.
This setting:
- Only impacts GPU performance and is fairly low, especially on modern GPUs[1:3].
- Should be heavily considered in order to improve shadows without impacting performance by a significant margin.
Our recommendation is:
- From a purely competitive standpoint, our recommendation is
Off - If you care about graphics, our recommendation is
Low(orHighestfor modern GPUs).
¶ Screen Space Reflections
Available options are:
- Off
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Highest
SSR (Screen Space Reflections) alters the reflection that appear on the surface of materials within scene view.
This effect affects only reflective surfaces such as water.
This setting only impacts GPU performance and is fairly low.
Our recommendation is:
- From a purely competitive standpoint, our recommendation is
Off. - If you care about graphics, our recommendation is
Low.
¶ Anti-aliasing
Available options are:
- Low
- Medium
- High
When SMAA is set as Anti-aliasing Algorithm:
- This setting increases the sample rate
- A high value will negatively impact CPU performance
When TAA is set as Anti-aliasing Algorithm:
- This setting introduces a trade-off where the lowest the value set the faster it is to settle but jitter caused by the effect will be more pronounced.
- A high value should have no impact on system performance.
Note: Anti-aliasing quality has no impact if NVIDIA DLSS is enabled.
Our recommendation is:
- From a purely competitive standpoint, our recommendation is
Low. - If you care about graphics and have Anti-aliasing Algorithm set to SMAA, our recommendation is
High. - If you care about graphics and have Anti-aliasing Algorithm set to TAA, our recommendation is
Low.
¶ Post-processing
Available options are:
- Lowest
- Low
- Medium
- High
This setting has a slight performance impact and introduces visual clutter such as bloom, color fringing and blur.
Low and Medium adds a perceivable bloom effect on Focus attacks.
Our recommendation is:
Lowestfor the least amount of clutter.Mediumto make Focus attack stand out more, at the cost of additional clutter.
¶ Light
Available options are:
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Highest
This setting enables dynamic global illumination on High and Highest.
Our recommendation is Medium. On very low-end specs, set to Low.
¶ Swapping DLSS DLL
In order to improve DLSS performance and visual quality you can swap the DLL with a more recent version.
Approved DLLs can be downloaded from TechPowerup DLSS Archives.
Just overwrite nvngx_dlss.dll in the game main folder (for Steam the default path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\NARAKA BLADEPOINT).
This method has been confirmed to be legitimate by the developers.
The recommended versions to swap to are either:
2.4.13if you prefer a very sharp image with occasional ghosting.2.5.0seems to have the least ghosting while still having the sharpening effect.2.5.1for the clearest non-aliased image possible.
¶ Players graphic settings
| Player Name | Render Scale | Display Mode | Resolution | Max Frame Rate | Filter | VSync | Anti-aliasing Algorithm | Motion Blur | NVIDIA DLSS | NVIDIA Graphics Enhancement | NVIDIA Reflex | NVIDIA Highlights | Modelling Accuracy | Tessellation | Effects | Textures | Shadows | Volumetric Lighting | Volumetric Clouds | Ambient Occlusion | Screen Space Reflections | Anti-aliasing | Post-processing | Light |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rivelia | 100% | Fullscreen | 2560x1440 | 240 | Tender | On | Off | Off | Auto | Off | Reflex+Boost | Off | Lowest | Off | Medium | Medium | Low | Low | Off | Low | Off | Low | Medium | Medium |
| zay | 100% | Fullscreen | 1920x1080 | Unlimited | Default | Off | Off | Off | Off | Off | Off | Off | Lowest | Off | Medium | Medium | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | Low | Lowest | Medium |
| yacque | 90% | Fullscreen | 2560x1440 | 144 | Default | On | Off | Off | Balanced | On | Reflex+Boost | Off | Lowest | Off | Low | Lowest | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | Low | Lowest | Low |
| Shioka | 99% | Fullscreen | 1920x1080 | Unlimited | Default | Off | Off | Off | Performance | On | Reflex+Boost | Off | Lowest | Off | Low | Lowest | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | Low | Lowest | Low |
| LongNotes | 90% | Fullscreen | 1920x1080 | Unlimited | Default | Off | Off | Off | Performance | Off | Off | Off | Lowest | Off | Low | Lowest | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | Low | Lowest | Low |
| TJ | 100% | Fullscreen | 1920x1080 | Unlimited | Default | Off | SMAA | Off | Off | Off | Reflex | Off | Lowest | Off | Low | Lowest | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | Low | Lowest | Low |
| Kizana | 100% | Fullscreen | 1920x1080 | Unlimited | Shimmering Waters | Off | Off | Off | Balanced | On | Reflex+Boost | Off | Lowest | Off | Low | Lowest | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | Low | Lowest | Low |
| Sachiko | 80% | Fullscreen | 1920x1080 | 288 | Default | Off | Off | Off | Performance | Off | Reflex+Boost | Off | Lowest | Off | Low | Lowest | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | Low | Lowest | Low |
| Plom | 100% | Fullscreen | 1920x1080 | Unlimited | Wildgrass | Off | Off | Off | Auto | Off | Reflex | Off | Lowest | Off | Medium | Lowest | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | Low | High | Medium |
| PastDue | 100% | Fullscreen | 1920x1080 | Unlimited | Default | Off | SMAA | Off | Off | Off | Off | Off | Lowest | Off | Low | Lowest | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | Low | High | Low |
| C7SPER | 90% | Fullscreen | 1920x1080 | Unlimited | Default | Off | Off | Off | Off | Off | Off | Off | Lowest | Off | Low | Lowest | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | Low | Lowest | Low |
| Eraldos | 100% | Fullscreen | 3440x1440 | Unlimited | Default | Off | Off | Off | Super Performance | On | Reflex+Boost | Off | Lowest | Off | Low | Lowest | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | Low | Lowest | Low |
| Kishi | 100% | Fullscreen | 1920x1080 | Unlimited | Default | Off | SMAA | Off | Off | Off | Off | Off | Lowest | Off | Lowest | High | Lowest | Low | Off | Off | Off | High | High | Low |