[Top 10] Metro Exodus Best Settings For Great Gameplay

Hubert Kachniarz

Updated:

24 Jun 2021

10. Make sure your PC can run the game

If your PC specifications don't meet minimum requirements then Metro Exodus won't be able to run.

Upgrade your PC specs, buy a new graphics card or Cpu or more RAM to meet requirements accordingly.

Metro Exodus Requirements:

MINIMUM:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 7/8/10
Processor: Intel Core i5-4440 or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 670 / GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon HD 7870
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 59 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

RECOMMENDED:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770k or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 1070 / GeForce RTX 2060 / AMD RX VEGA 56
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 59 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

9. Update Graphics Drivers

If Graphics Drivers installed are out of date and not optimized for Metro Exodus, performance will be affected.

How To Apply update drivers:

Download New Graphics Drivers from NVidia official site for NVidia Graphics cards and AMD official site for AMD Graphics Cards.

8. Adjust Nvidia Control Panel Settings

NVidia Control Panel Settings may be preset to a setting that affects performance.

How to adjust them:

Click on Adjust image settings with preview under 3D settings.
Select Use the advanced 3D image settings.
Next, open the Nvidia Control Panel.
Click on Manage 3D settings.
Then select Global Settings.
Now, adjust some of the additional settings:
Turn off Image Sharpening
Turn on Threaded Optimization
Power Management: Prefer Maximum Performance
Low Latency Mode: Off
Texture Filtering Quality: Performance

7. AMD Radeon Control Settings

AMD Radeon Control Settings may be preset to a setting that affects performance

How to adjust them:

Click on Global Graphics.
Disable Radeon Anti-Lag
Disable Radeon Boost
Image Sharpening: Off
Anti-Aliasing Mode: Use Application settings
Set Anti-aliasing Method to Multi-sampling
Morphological Filtering: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: Disabled
Texture Filtering Quality: Performance
Surface Format Optimization: Enabled
Tesselation Mode: AMD Optimized
Turn off Wait for V-sync
OpenGL Triple Buffering: Off
Shader Cache: AMD optimized
Turn off Maximum Tesselation Level
GPU Workload: Graphics
Radeon Chill: Off
Frame Rate Target Control: Disabled

6. Repair Game from Steam Client

If the game is not launching, file corruption may have happened or game files are missing.

How to fix:

Launch Steam Client
Click on Metro Exodus from the left sidebar
Now, click on Game Options
Choose Scan and Repair

5. Clean Temporary Files to fix Metro Exodus Lag

By cleaning temporary files, game performance will be improved.

How to clean files:

Open the Steam Library by logging into the account.
Right-click on Metro Exodus
Click on Properties
Select the Local Files tab
Then click on Verify Integrity of Game Files
Wait for the process and then restart the game to check whether the issue has been fixed or not

4. Disable Steam Overlay

Steam Overlay can also affect game performance, switching will fix the problem.

How to switch it off:

Open Steam on your Windows.
Head over to the Settings > Click on the In-Game option.
Click on the checkbox to disable “Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game“.
Once the checkbox mark is removed, click on OK.

3. Adjust Discord Settings

If you are using Discord while playing the game that will also hinder performance.

Adjusting settings like disabling overlay will fix this.

How to adjust settings:

Launch Discord > Click on User Settings.
Select Voice & Video from the left sidebar.
Scroll down a bit and click on Advanced.
Next, disable OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco System, Inc.
Then disable Enable Quality of Service High Packet Priority.
Click on Overlay.
Disable in-game overlay.
Next, click on Appearance.
Scroll down to the bottom Advanced.
Disable Hardware Acceleration.
Once done, restart the Discord or restart the system.
Finally, check whether the Metro Exodus Lag is fixed or not.

2. Close Google Chrome!

Google Chrome uses a lot of RAM.

Make sure to close any background processes that eat up RAM.

1. Best Ingame settings for performance

Depending on your PC Specs this will work better or worse for you.

Nvidia GTX 970ti or better Low quality at 1080p 60fps settings:

Low Quality
Texture Filtering: AF 4x
Motion Blur: Low
Tessellation: Off
Advanced PhysX: Off
HairWorks: Off
Ray Tracing: Off
DLSS: Off (you can put it on On if you have an RTX 2060 or higher graphics card)
Shading Rate: 50%

Nvidia GTX 1070 or better Medium quality at 1080p 60fps settings:

Medium Quality
Texture Filtering: AF 4x
Motion Blur: Low
Tessellation: Full
Advanced PhysX: On
HairWorks: Off
Ray Tracing: Off
DLSS: Off (you can put it on On if you have an RTX 2060 or higher graphics card)
Shading Rate: 100%

Nvidia 1070ti or better High quality at 1080p 60fps settings:

High Quality
Texture Filtering: AF 16x
Motion Blur: Low
Tessellation: Full
Advanced PhysX: On
HairWorks: On
Ray Tracing: Off
DLSS: Off (you can put it on On if you have an RTX 2060 or higher graphics card)
Shading Rate: 100%

Nvidia GTX 2080 or 2080Ti Ultra quality at 4K 60ps settings: