The in-game settings, launch options, and cvars.xml file of Destiny 2 can be optimized to increment your FPS and improve your gameplay.

On the web, y'all tin find several configuration files to replace yours and boost the fps. Honestly, I don't similar this arroyo because I desire to know exactly what I am changing, so I decided to review all the options in this article.

These adjustments are useful if you are struggling to reach an acceptable amount of fps equally you are using a low-spec PC, but also if you accept a monitor with a high refresh-rate as you bought information technology to gain an border in a competitive shooter such as Destiny ii.

Video settings

Launch Destiny ii, click the Esc central on the keyboard to enter the Game Options carte, select Open up Settings, and open the Video tab.

Video

  • Window Manner: Fullscreen.

Fullscreen is the best choice operation-wise, merely you might prefer Windowed Fullscreen if you have a multi-monitor setup and you wish to movement quickly on another display.

  • Resolution: use your native one.

Using your native resolution is desirable for a better view, but if y'all badly need a performance heave, decreasing the resolution will greatly improve your fps. 720p is ordinarily a solid compromise between quality and performance.

  • Vsync: Off.

  • Framerate Cap Enabled: On.

  • Framerate Cap: your monitor refresh rate.

This is the fps cap. I suggest keeping it at the aforementioned value equally your monitor refresh charge per unit (60, 120, or 144Hz).

Note that unlocking the frame rate might cause overheating bug if your system isn't cooled properly every bit the game will try to render as many frames as possible.

  • Field of View: it depends on your preferences.

Most of the players prefer a very high FoV in Destiny 2.

A wider field of view (FOV) increases your peripheral vision, but at the aforementioned fourth dimension all the targets are smaller, and it can crusade a fisheye effect. In any case, lower values will better your performance.

Video Settings Destiny 2 best fps config

Advanced video

  • Graphics Quality: Custom.

We volition have a look at each setting individually.

  • Anti-Aliasing: Off.

I suggest enabling at least FXAA if your PC can concur it.

Honestly, I tin can't stand this game without anti-aliasing due to all the jagged edges, simply it does accept a huge bear on on the frames.

  • Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HDAO or Off.

HDAO is a good compromise between quality and performance.

  • Texture Anisotropy: Off or 16x.

Note that nowadays anisotropic filtering has a very modest bear upon on the fps, and then I suggest maxing it because the game will look ameliorate.

  • Texture Quality: Medium/Loftier

This setting depends generally on the VRAM available on your graphic card. Be aware that any value by medium might have a minor affect on the fps.

Generally, y'all should be fine as long as your graphic carte has at to the lowest degree 3GB VRAM

  • Shadow Quality: Lowest.

This is one of the graphic settings with the highest performance loss in Destiny two.

  • Ecology Particular Altitude: High.

  • Character Particular Distance: High.

  • Foliage Detail Distance: Low.

  • Leaf Shadows Altitude: Medium.

Considering the four settings above, Foliage Detail Distance is the only one that is very fps-expensive - the others have a low cost.

  • Depth of Field: Off.

  • Low-cal Shafts: Medium.

  • Movement Blur: Off.

  • Wind Impulse: Off.

Current of air Impulse is the effect of air current on the environment (you can easily notice information technology on the grass). It is not taxing on the game performance, but I advise keeping it disabled as it doesn't actually better the graphic quality.

Advanced Video Settings Destiny 2 best fps config

Additional video

  • Return Resolution: 100% or 90%.

I warmly recommend to not modify this setting unless yous really need more fps. Decreasing the value beneath 100% will grant more than functioning at the cost of blurred textures.

The visual effect at 90% is acceptable, and 75% is the minimum value you should consider. Generally, decrease the resolution first, and use the resolution scale as the terminal resort.

  • Chromatic Aberration: Off.

  • Film Grain: Off.

The settings above generate visual furnishings on your screen that influence negatively both your performance and gameplay, so I suggest disabling them.

  • Click Apply to save the changes.

Additional Video Settings Destiny 2 best fps config

Launch options

How to open the launch options:

  • Open the Steam launcher

  • Become on the Library tab

  • Right click on Destiny ii

  • Select Properties and go on the General tab

  • Click "Gear up Launch Options"

This is the only useful command that may assistance to increase your fps:

-loftier -USEALLAVAILABLECORES

It tells the game to use all your CPU cores, which can improve the performance a flake.

Destiny 2 launch options Steam fps

Cvars.xml file

Equally far equally I know, editing the cvars file is totally legit and won't cause a ban. I don't concord myself accountable for whatever problem, so practice it at your own hazard.

To notice your cvars file, press Win+R and then input the post-obit line:

                  %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Bungie\DestinyPC\prefs

Right click on cvars.xml and open it with WordPad or another text editor. I use Notepad++.

This file contains the same graphic options we take already configured through the in-game settings, so there is actually nothing more than you can optimize to boost your FPS.

cvars.xml path

cvars.xml path

Note: If you still wish to edit manually the file, exercise not forget to mark information technology as Read-Only later.

Right click on the file, go on Properties, General, Attributes, and mark information technology every bit Read-Only. If you lot don't, it will exist overwritten every bit soon equally you outset the game, and y'all will lose all the changes.

If you lot need to alter your in-game settings in the future, it is necessary to uncheck read-only. Afterwards, you can change the settings, edit manually cvars.xml, and set information technology as read-but once again.

If your cvars file becomes corrupted, merely delete or move it elsewhere, and then open the Steam launcher, go on the library tab, correct click on Destiny 2, select Properties, click on Local Files and finally on Verify Integrity of Game Files. The game will automatically download a new default one.

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