God of War (2018) — Tips & Tricks

It is worth roughly a 55% frame gain for a small sharpening trade, and it is the hardest change of the list to actually notice. Enable it before you touch anything else.

Texture Quality Ultra costs about 1% of frame rate if it fits your VRAM, and anisotropic filtering at 16x is essentially free. Shadow Quality Low alone is worth around 10%.

Shadows about 10%, Reflections about 8%, Ambient Occlusion about 6%, Atmospherics about 6%, Model Quality about 5%. Drop them in that order and keep textures high.

God of War fluctuates regardless of settings on some configurations. Locking 60 FPS and using adaptive sync smooths the dips more effectively than chasing a higher average.

High Performance power plan, close Chrome, disable fullscreen optimizations on the executable, and raise process priority — together worth roughly 5–8 FPS on weak laptops.

Before any reinstall, driver sweep or mod change, copy the save folder for God of War (2018). Cloud saves are convenient but they can also sync a corrupted file back onto your machine — knowing where the local copy lives is what actually protects you.

Launch options, config file edits and INI tweaks are easy to forget. A short note means you can undo a change six months later instead of reverse-engineering your own setup.

Pick a demanding area in God of War (2018), load the same save and play for the same duration after each change. Judging performance by feel is how people conclude a real improvement did nothing.

Right-click the God of War (2018) executable, open the Compatibility tab, tick Disable fullscreen optimizations, then open Change high DPI settings and set the scaling override to Application. This resolves black screens, low-resolution output and alt-tab freezes across a large number of Unreal Engine 3 and older DirectX 11 titles.

All three sit in Settings > Gaming. They cost RAM and GPU resources and interfere with fullscreen rendering. Some newer titles do benefit from Game Mode, so test rather than assuming — but start with it off.

Balanced and silent profiles let the CPU and GPU downclock under load. Select High or Ultimate Performance, and monitor temperatures — crashes that appear ten minutes in rather than at launch are very often thermal rather than software.

Several engines rely on virtual memory even with ample RAM, and disabling the page file is a recurring cause of "out of memory" errors on machines with 32 GB installed. Leave Windows in control of it.