Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is finally out for PCs, allowing a large section of players to play the second entry into Square Enix’s FF7 Remake trilogy. Like most PC ports, the game also features a few settings to further fine tune and tweak for tinkerers, in order to squeeze as much performance and image clarity from the game as possible.
A list of optimized PC settings for the RPG can be found detailed below – taking into consideration both image quality and frame rates.
Optimized Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth settings
- Display Mode: Borderless Full Screen; can choose to keep the game at Windowed if you wish to multi-task
- Target Display: Select your game’s GPU and target display (you wish to render the game at)
- Screen Resolution: 1920×1080; swap to your display’s native resolution
- Framerate: 120 FPS; can be dropped to 60 or even 30 FPS for handheld gaming devices that are power constrained
- Display Sync Technology: Use VRR if you have a display capable of VRR, otherwise use V-Sync
- Brightness: 0; leave at default value
- Graphics Quality: Custom; we will be using our own presets here
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling (Maximum): 100%
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling (Minimum): 50%
- Background Model Detail: Medium
- Ocean Detail: Low; higher presets drop FPS
- Character Model Detail: High; makes models look crisp
- Effect Details: High
- Texture Resolution: High, can be dropped to Low or Medium for cards with low amounts of VRAM
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Fog Quality: High
- Anti-Aliasing Method: TAAU; use this over TAA
- Characters Displayed: 4
- Character Shadow Display Distance: 6
- Low-Resolution Font: Disabled
Overall, Rebirth has been optimized decently well, despite having some rather high barrier points for entry. For starters, the game uses DIrectX 12 Ultimate, which many older cards do not have support for.
The port, while solid, is admittedly basic, offering very minor tweakable options. The lack of ultrawide support, FOV sliders and any upscaler (bar DLSS) is also quite disheartening to see.
