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60+ FPS | BOOST YOUR ASA!
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This guide will show you, how to improve your FPS in ASA!
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Before we gonna start, make sure to know you have to enable console option in ASA settings. Settings>ADVANCED>Console Access turn ON

A quick note for the players who wants to play ASA, make sure to have these specs min for the game.

● LOW Settings: i5-10400F or more, GTX 1080 or RTX 2070 with 8x2 total 16 GB Ram as long as with SATA SSD.
● MEDIUM Settings: i7-11700K or more, RTX 2080 Ti or 3080 with 16x2 total 32 GB Ram as long as with M2 SSD.
● ULTRA Settings: i9-12900K or more, RTX 4070 or more with 16x2 32 GB Ram as long as with M2 SSD.

Even the game have some optimization problems as you guys know. Use these codes to improve your FPS more than 60 in the game!

● 1 - grass.densityScale 0 (First of and all most for the PVP players and improve FPS, minimize leafs all around the world!).
● 2 - grass.enable 0 (Disable most grass particles!).
● 3 - r.VolumetricCloud 0 (This code will turn off your clouds. It will improve your FPS insanely).
● 4 - r.Fog 0 (Get rid of the fog (Disable soggy clouds on ground... xD) ).
● 5 - r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4 (Reduce nanite mesh).
● 6 - r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution 16 (Lumen optimization).
● 7 - r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 2 (For disable Lumen).
● 8 - r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0 (Disable Water reflections).
● 9 - r.ShadowQuality 0 (Disable all shadows, shadow particles).
● 10 - r.Streaming.PoolSize 0 (Most important one! Boost maximum of your GPU VRAM usage for game!).

New options where you can directly copy all of them and paste at the same time in to ASA console while you are in game, server

Slight boost for FPS
● r.VolumetricCloud 0 | r.VolumetricFog 0 | r.Lumen.AsyncCompute 1 | r.Streaming.PoolSize 0 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 2

Mid FPS with better quality
● r.VolumetricCloud 0 | r.Lumen.AsyncCompute 1 | r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 1 | r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0 | r.ReflectionMethod 2 | r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow 1 | r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.DiffuseIntegralMethod 1 | r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 1 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 2 | r.AntiAliasingMethod 2 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 2 | r.lightshaftquality 1 | r.LightShaftDownSampleFactor 4 | r.BloomQuality 0 | r.contactshadows 1 | r.Streaming.PoolSize 0

MAX FPS with potato quality
● r.VolumetricCloud 0 | r.Lumen.AsyncCompute 0 | r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution 8 | r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 3 | r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0 | r.ReflectionMethod 0 | r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow 0 | r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.DiffuseIntegralMethod 1 | r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 1 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 1 | r.AntiAliasingMethod 2 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 2 | r.lightshaftquality 0 | r.LightShaftDownSampleFactor 1 | r.BloomQuality 0 | r.shadowquality 0 | r.contactshadows 0 | foliage.DensityScale 0 | grass.enable 0 | r.Streaming.PoolSize 0

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Sonicthehog_47 19 Jan @ 1:55pm 
i just use fsr and framegen and the game looks good with 60+ fps
Sonicthehog_47 19 Jan @ 1:53pm 
my other specs are a ryzen 5 5500, 16.0gb ram, rx 6700xt, 2tb m.2 nvme, and an asrock b450m pro 4
Sonicthehog_47 19 Jan @ 1:51pm 
i have a 6700xt and i get 60 fps on 1440p ultra with upscaling
DXDDY CRY 19 Jan @ 9:33am 
on release i have played this game with a GTX 1080 and a Ryzen 5 2600 whithout problems on high and 40-60 Fps. Now i got a RTX 5070 with an Intel Core 9 Ultra and i cant play it normal on medium wtf is happening.
Gambler 8 Sep, 2025 @ 8:40pm 
i have a question whenever i get on i js got the game m y mouse is so delayed on that game and only that game i dont understand
Hogramm 17 Jun, 2025 @ 4:46am 
Since the update i cant play the game.... stuttering
BlackIce 4 Jun, 2025 @ 4:41am 
Looks like yall are Dropping the Ball
Krampus 3 Jun, 2025 @ 9:22pm 
Specs:
14900K, RTX 4080, 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM, M.2 SSD, 4K 144Hz HDR OLED monitor.

I got the biggest performance increases by:

Updating NVIDIA drivers to something after March 18, anything past April or may 2025 should work. (massive improvement, don't remember what %)

Go into the Nvidia App, and go into ASA specific settings. Set DLSS override for SuperRes and FrameGen to Latest (These 2 got me +30-50% FPS)

use the steam command line argument "-high", i think this made my game more "smoother" without adding FPS, just better.

I also use -USEALLAVAILABLECORES too

I use DLSS Balanced

You can turn Foliage Interaction/Dentiy/Quantity to their lowest (0.25 or 0.5)

Disable HI LOD

Disabled clouds with r.VolumetricCloud 0 always adds like 20 FPS

This is all for scorched earth. Despite having 16GB of VRAM, i think my 4080 runs out of VRAM and gets very suttery on other maps. Tons of FPS drops and instability on any map except scorched earth.
milordas75 29 May, 2025 @ 12:28am 
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod = 0
r.Lumen.Reflection.Allow = 0
r.Nanite.MaxPixelPerEdge = 4
r.VolumetricCloud = 0
r.VolumetricFog = 0
the most important settings.
if you want to make them permanent, without every time use console commands, put them in engine.ini under [SystemSettings] marker
jakethe44 28 May, 2025 @ 9:05pm 
Wait... Hold on. I thought they ported this to a new engine, delayed it for several months, then charged full price for a game we already own because it was suppose to increase performance. Their whole justification was the graphical and performance boosts. We just ignoring the massive false advertising and borderline criminal negligence this game is? And I have a i9-13K and 4090. You are absolutely not getting 60fps with ULTRA settings on official servers. Which is how 97% of the player base plays this game. The came is a scam. And in a couple years it'll be in the same place ASE was. Except a lot less people will care