Hogwarts Legacy Best Settings Guide For PC

Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment and Avalanche Software’s action role-playing game, Hogwarts Legacy, is now available on PC. In this article, Gurugamer is going to showcase the best settings for getting optimized performance on low-to-mid-end system specs.

Before playing, it is recommended to update your GPU drivers and Windows drivers to the latest version. GPU manufacturers tend to release optimization updates for the biggest releases of the year, and Hogwarts Legacy is certainly one of them.

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Display Options

The below settings would work as long as your system meets the minimum requirement to run the game. If your PC already has decent FPS, it might be a good idea to tune up the settings to make the game look better.

Window Mode: Windowed Fullscreen
Resolution: Max resolution of your display
Rendering Resolution: As per the native resolution of your display screen and preference
Upscale Type: Nvidia DLSS
Upscale Mode: Nvidia DLSS Performance
VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise
Frame Rate: As per the native refresh rate of your display and preference (Uncapped on VRR/G-Sync display)

Graphics Options

Overall, Texture quality is the most important setting - you should try to have it at High in order to make the game look better.

Population quality is pretty taxing - it determines the amount of NPC walking around in the game. Even better PCs might have issues at maximum. Don't even touch Ray Tracing if your PC is not a 3000 or 4000 series.

The other quality settings like effect, fog, sky, material, and foliage are not that important - higher settings barely look better than Medium. It is best to just leave them at medium to squeeze as much performance out of the game as possible.

Global Quality Preset: Custom
Effects Quality: Medium
Material Quality: Medium
Fog Quality: Medium
Sky Quality: Medium
Foliage Quality: Medium
Post Process Quality: Medium
Shadow Quality: Medium
Texture Quality: High (or higher, depending on available VRAM)
View Distance Quality: Medium
Population Quality: Medium
Ray Tracing Reflections: Off
Ray Tracing Shadows: Off
Ray Tracing Ambient Occlusion: Off

If you find your system’s still struggling, however, developer Portkey Games has conveniently provided a description of what each setting does in the graphics options menu, as well as whether they affect CPU or GPU performance. The Harry Potter spin-off also supports AMD FSR, Intel XeSS, and Nvidia DLSS upscaling, all three of which help boost fps with minimal impact to image fidelity.

Hogwarts Legacy System Requirements

Hogwarts Legacy Building — The open world of the game looks fairly good

MINIMUM:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: 64-bit Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 (3.3Ghz) or AMD Ryzen 5 1400 (3.2Ghz)
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 85 GB available space
Additional Notes: SSD (Preferred), HDD (Supported), 720p/30 fps, Low Quality Settings

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