Escape from Tarkov optimization guide

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Guidelines

This guide is designed to improve performance in the game Escape from Tarkov. We aren't responsible for your actions on your computer.

If you think this guide can be improved, please let me know.

Contributing to this project

Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute.

Table of Contents

General recommendations

• Update GPU Drivers
• NVIDIA Settings
• AMD Settings
• Virtual memory
• Power Options
• Graphics settings in the game
• SSD optimizations

For weak PCs

• Full-screen optimizations
• Optimize Background Processes
  • Discord
  • Google Chrome
  • XBOX DVR
• Cleaning Temp folder

Fast decision

If you don't understand or don't want to do everything manually, you can use .reg file. The text guide contains more information.

• Optimization .reg file — Download
• Reset optimization settings — Download

Reboot PC for apply.

General recommendations

Update GPU Drivers

You must have the latest driver for your GPU.

NVIDIA drivers — Download

AMD drivers — Download

NVIDIA Settings

1. Open NVIDIA Control Panel
2. Go to the Adjust image settings with preview
3. Click the Use my preference emphasising and move the value to Performance
4. Apply
5. Go to Manage 3D settings
6. Click the Program Settings
7. Select or add EscapeFromTarkov.exe application
8. Set these settings:

Feature	Setting
Vertical sync	Off
Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames	1
Shader Cache	On
Power management mode	Prefer maximum performance
Triple buffering	Off

9. Apply

AMD Settings

TODO

Virtual memory

1. Press Win+R, type control and press enter key
2. Go to the System and click Advanced system settings
3. Click on the Advanced tab
4. Click the Settings button from under the Performance
5. Click on the Advanced tab
6. Click the Change button from under the Virtual memory
7. Uncheck the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives checkbox
8. Click on the drive on which Windows is installed and set Custom size
9. For EFT, it is recommended to set from 15000-25000, regardless of the size of RAM. Set the same value on both lines!
10. Click Set and OK
11. Reboot PC for apply

Power Options

1. Press Win key and type cmd, right click the first result and select Run as administrator
2. Copy powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61, paste in cmd and press enter key
3. Reboot PC for apply

Graphics settings in the game

Settings for minimum system requirements. If you have a good PC, you can increase the settings.

Setting	Value
Fullscreen mode	Fullscreen
VSync	Disable
Texture quality	low-medium
Shadows quality	low
Object LOD quality	2
Overall visibility	400-1000
Shadow visibility	40
Antialiasing	off
Resampling	1x off
HBAO	off
SSR	off
Anisotropic Filtering	off
Sharpness	0-0.5
Lobby FPS Limit	60
Game FPS Limit	120
Z-Blur	Uncheck
Chrom. aberrations	Uncheck
Noise	Uncheck
Grass Shadows	Uncheck

• Go to the gameplay settings and turn on the auto ram cleaner. This can cause statters! If this is the case, turn off the option to clean the RAM!

Z-Blur, Chrom. aberratins, Noise and Grass Shadows don't affect performance, but may interfere with the gameplay.

SSD optimizations

Escape from Tarkov should be installed on the SSD

1. Open file explorer and select This PC
2. Go to Properties of the Local Disk (C:)
3. In General tab uncheck Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties
4. Apply and OK
5. Press Win+R, type services.msc and press enter key
6. Find SysMain in Services
7. Go to Properties and select Startup Type on Disabled
8. Press Win key and type cmd, right click the first result and select Run as administrator
9. Type powercfg -h off and press enter key
10. Reboot PC for apply

For weak PCs

Full-screen optimizations

1. Go to the root folder of the game
2. Go to Properties of the EscapeFromTarkov.exe
3. Go to Compatibility tab and tick Disable full-screen optimizations
4. On the same tab, go to Change high DPI settings
5. Tick Override high DPI scaling behavior and use the Scaling performed by: drop-down menu, and select Application
6. OK and again OK

Optimize Background Processes

Discord

1. Go to the User Settings
2. Go to the Appearance
3. Uncheck the Hardware Acceleration
4. Go to the Overlay
5. Uncheck the Enable in-game overlay.

Google Chrome

1. Using the address bar, go chrome://settings/
2. Click the Advanced
3. Go to the System tab
4. Uncheck the Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed

XBOX DVR

NVIDIA GPUs are limited to two encoding sessions. Game DVR and Geforce Experience(ShadowPlay) will often consume both of these sessions if enabled, preventing you from recording or streaming(or both simultaneously) when using NVENC. Game DVR can also cause performance issues, it is still recommended to disable Game DVR even if you don't plan on using hardware encoding.

1. Right-click the Start button
2. Click Settings
3. Click Gaming
4. Click Game Bar
5. Set Record game clips, screenshots and broadcast using Game bar to Off
6. Click Game Mode
7. Set Game Mode to Off
8. Click Captures
9. Set Record in the background while I'm playing a game to Off
10. Reboot PC for apply

Cleaning Temp folder

WARNING: If you don't understand what temporary files are, don't do this.

1. Press Win+R, type %temp% and press enter key
2. Delete everything in the folder that opens.
3. Press Win+R, type temp and press enter key
4. Delete everything in the folder that opens.
5. Press Win+R, type prefetch and press enter key
6. Delete everything in the folder that opens.

Files that aren't deleted must be skipped!