The Dune: Awakening has finally launched in early access, and here are the best graphics settings you can use to balance out graphics and frames per second.
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Best Dune: Awakening graphics settings
| Quality Presets | Custom |
| Window Mode | Fullscreen |
| Resolution | Your monitor’s native resolution (1920×1080, for example) |
| Custom Resolution Scale | On |
| Resolution Scale | 100 |
Anti-Aliasing / Upscaling / Frame Gen
- Upscaling Quality: High
- Upscaling Method: DLSS
- Frame Generation Method: AMD FSR3
- DLSS Upscaling Quality: Balanced
- FSR3 Upscaler Quality: Balanced
- NVIDIA Reflex: Disabled
Lighting
- Shadows: Medium
- Virtual Shadow Maps: Off
- Global Illumination Quality: Medium
- Enable Lumen: Off
- Reflections Quality: Medium
The Global Illumination Quality has a high impact on both VRAM and GPU performance, so setting it to Medium will be a better choice in most cases.
Quality Details
- View Distance: Medium
- Post Processing: High
- Effects Quality: Medium
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Foliage Quality: Medium
The Texture quality will have a high impact on your graphics card, so setting it to Medium will generate a lot more frames for you without compromising on a lot of quality.
Best Display settings
- VSync: Off
- Gamma: 2.2
- Field of view: 100
- Motion Blur: Off
- Frame Rate Cap: Unlimited
Set the Frame Rate Cap to unlimited and turn VSync off to get the maximum frames while playing Dune: Awakening.
I was playing with the Steam FPS counter turned on, and I was getting frames between 80 to 110 in most cases. My system is equipped with a Ryzen 5 3600, RTX 3060 Ti, and 32 GB RAM.
If you have a beefier system than mine, you will get a lot more frames undoubtedly. You can check the table below to get an idea of the minimum and recommended PC specs needed to play the game.
Minimum and recommended PC specs for Dune: Awakening
| Minimum PC specs | Recommended PC specs |
|---|---|
| OS: Windows 10 64-bit (or newer) | OS: Windows 10 64-bit (or newer) |
| CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 | CPU: Intel Core i7-10700K or AMD Ryzen 5 2600X |
| GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB) or AMD Radeon 5600 XT (6GB) | GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (8GB) or AMD Radeon 6700 XT (12GB) |
| RAM: 16 GB | RAM: 16 GB |
| Storage: 60 GB (SSD required) | Storage: 60 GB (SSD required) |
In the meantime, do check out the current server status of Dune: Awakening.
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