Playing Honkai Star Rail on PC gives you more control over the game’s graphics and performance settings than you’ll get playing the mobile version. Of course, this makes perfect sense considering the platform, but what are the best PC settings for HSR? Below, we dial in the best configurations we’ve found so far.
Best Performance PC Settings for HSR
If you have a high-end PC or laptop with dedicated gaming GPU, then these settings will provide the smoothest gameplay experience without having to sacrifice too much in terms of quality.
- Resolution: Full Screen
- FPS: 60
- V-Sync: On
- Rendering Quality: 1.4
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Reflection Quality: Low
- Character Quality: High
- Environmental Detail: High
- Bloom Effect: Low
- Anti-Aliasing: TAA
- Light Quality: Medium
If your PC or laptop has an older generation CPU and/or GPU, then you’ll most likely have to lower those settings a bit. Based on our experience, HSR runs really smooth with the graphics and performance settings listed below.
- Resolution: Full Screen
- FPS: 60
- V-Sync: On
- Rendering Quality: 1.0
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Reflection Quality: Very Low
- Character Quality: Medium
- Environmental Detail: Medium
- Bloom Effect: Off
- Anti-Aliasing: Off
- Light Quality: Low
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Best GPU Settings for Honkai Star Rail
We also recommend optimizing your GPU settings on PC for an even better performance of Honkai Star Rail. Note that in many cases, these settings may play an even more important role than the in-game settings based on what we’ve found.
nVidia GeForce Settings
Those with nVidia GPUs can also improve their performance by making these changes in the nVidia control panel:
- Set “Image Scaling” to “ON“.
- Set “Triple Buffering” to “ON“.
- Set “Ambient Occlusion” to “Performance“.
- Set “Anisotropic Filtering” to “Application Controlled“.
- Set “Antialiasing FXAA” to “Off“.
- Set “Antialiasing Mode” to “Application Controlled“.
- Set “Antialiasing Transparency” to “Off“.
- Set “Low Latency Mode” to “Ultra“.
- Set “Optimize for Computer Performance” to “On“.
Laptop users should also set “Power Management Mode” to “Maximum Performance“.
AMD Radeon Settings
AMD GPU owners should apply the following settings:
- Toggle “Anti-Lag” to “On“.
- Toggle “Image Sharpening” to “On“.
- Toggle “Vertical Refresh” to “Off“.
- Set “AA Method” to “Multi Sampling“.
Set the Game’s Priority to High
The last thing we recommend doing is to set the game’s priority to “High” in the Task Manager. Here’s how you can do it:
- Press CTRL+ALT+DEL key combination.
- Select “Task Manager” option.
- Go to “Details” tab.
- Right-click on Honkai: Star Rail.
- Set “High” in the “Set Priority” field.
Those are the best PC settings for Honkai: Star Rail. Stay tuned for more Honkai: Star Rail tips and tricks articles right here.
Featured image via HoYoverse.
