Rocket League Video Settings Guide - Best Video Settings for Better FPS and Competitive Games

What is the best Rocket League Video Settings can help you win the best performance out of any competitive game? This is a guide about explained the Video Settings, their impact on gameplay and tips for the best settings to get your Rocket League run as smoothly as possible.

In order to help every player to win in the Rocket League competitive games, we always try to share more useful guides here. Tweaking your game settings to make the game as clear, unobstructed and non-distracting as possible for competitive games is the basic tips you should learn! In our previous guides, we have talked about Rocket League Camera Settings And Controller Settings , today we cover the best Rocket League Video Settings which is shared by player Yuhristeru on the steam community, you can read the original post here. Now let’s check out the details as below.

Best Rocket League Video Settings

Window Settings

Resolution

You should use the native resolution of your screen. There is no real benefit to gain from using different resolutions or aspect ratios in this game. However, if you are having troubles getting to a stable frame rate, you might want to consider lowering this setting.

Display Mode - Fullscreen

Here, the best choice is Fullscreen. Windows 10 has a form of Vertical Sync on the desktop that you can't turn off, which will apply to your game if you run it in Borderless. There are also reports of Borderless bringing input-lag, which we obviously want to avoid at all costs.

Vertical Sync - OFF

Synchronizes your framerate with your display's refresh rate. Reduces screen tearing but may increase input delay.

Vertical Sync or "VSync" synchronize your GPU with your monitor's frame rate. In simple words, it limits the FPS to the Hz of your monitor. This keeps frames from display evenly and prevents screen tearing. I recommend having it always deactivated (unless the screen tearing is utterly unbearable that you cannot play the game any longer), since VSync causes input-lag and we want as many FPS as possible.

Basic Settings

Anti-Aliasing - OFF / FXAA Low / FXAA High

Smooths out jagged lines, but can result in a blurred image. Enabling this can reduce performance.

There are only 3 viable options: OFF, FXAA Low, FXAA High. MLAA takes up a huge chunk of performance and it doesn’t make the game look all that much better when compared to FXAA.
A lot of pro players (ex: Ferra, Squishy) prefer to have this setting set to OFF because they don't want to see things blurred. The graphical differences between off and FXAA are huge.
If you want to go with an Anti-Aliasing effect, there isn't a big difference between FXAA Low and FXAA High in graphical terms. If your system can handle it, I suggest to choose FXAA High but if you want to maximize your FPS, then keep it at FXAA Low.

Render Quality - High Quality

Reducing this setting increases performance by rendering at a lower resolution, then upscaling to your display.

If you're not playing with this setting on High Quality you're playing another game, my friend. Anything lower will make your game look like !@#$ and, while there is something to be said about looks vs performance, you also don't want your game to look too grainy. Change this setting only if it's your last option in terms of FPS.

Render Detail - Custom

Controls the level of multiple rendering settings. Decreasing this may improve performance.

This option just lets you choose from different presets for the Advanced Settings. We want to have this on CUSTOM because we're going to adjust the following settings by ourselves.

Max FPS - Maximum (250)

Limits the maximum framerate the game can run at.

Set this to the highest possible option. The more FPS you get, the smoother your game will be and the better it'll respond to your input.

Advanced Settings

Texture Detail - 100% Player's Preference

Adjusts the quality of displayed textures.

The difference of performance between High Quality and High Performance is minimal, so feel free to set this to High Quality if you want. I could say this setting is based on this question: "How much detail do you want on the textures?". Some people find distractions on High Quality. From my point of view, it's 100% player's preference. Personally, I have it set to High Quality.

World Detail - Performance

Adjusts the level of visible detail rendered in the world.

This is another setting that won't have too much effect on your system performance. The lower you go the less "distractions" there are on and around the field though. Basically, how much unnecessary do you want around the map? You can see some fewer trees, the grass on the field is cut more neatly, less mist in the background etc. I feel like the game becomes less cluttered. A lot of pro players choose Performance to avoid the distraction of additional background details.

High-Quality Shaders - ON

Enables high-quality material rendering. May reduce performance.

Leave it ON unless you absolutely have to squeeze out performance since we lose a lot of quality and we will not gain much FPS by deactivating it. The game looks very grainy and flat with this setting off though.

Ambient Occlusion - OFF

Enables more realistic shadows and lightning. May reduce performance.

This just provides extra shadows. Its effect isn't all that noticeable. Aesthetics for the price of FPS performance. I would recommend to turn this OFF.

Depth of Field - OFF

Enables a depth of field blur effect.

This causes things that are far away to look blurry, making them harder to see, and makes objects closer to you appear sharper. Turning it off makes every object in the game world look equally sharp so you want to turn this setting OFF for clarity.

Bloom - OFF

Increases the luminosity of light sources.

Bloom brings more life into the lights of the game, making them look less flat. Looks fine, but I'd rather be without it, for maps with a lot of lights, like Neo Tokyo, it can be distracting. Turn it OFF. It’s more of an aesthetic change then FPS related.

Light Shaft - OFF

Enables light shafts in the world.

Beams of light that blind you every time when you try to do an aerial. It doesn't have an FPS performance effect, but it may cause gameplay issues, since on certain maps when you do aerials, the sun will not allow you to see well.

Lens Flare - OFF

Enables lens flares from light sources in the world.

Similar to Light Shafts, this is the "blinding" effect you get when staring directly into a light source. While this might make the game feel more realistic, it also limits your vision, so turn this setting to OFF, no matter how good your system is.

Dynamic Shadows - ON

Enables shadows cast by moving objects in the world.

This handles the moving shadows in the game. In a game such as Rocket League, this can be of massive help (ex: you can see the shadow of an opposing player above you) but it does come at a relatively large cost performance wise. Turn this off if you need the FPS but otherwise I’d say it’s worth the tradeoff of leaving it ON.

Motion Blur - OFF

Enables visual blur to simulate realistic motion.

There is no FPS performance impact but we don't want to see blurry things when we're in supersonic speed. We want maximum clarity possible so just disable this setting.

Weather Effects - OFF

Enables weather effects like rain and fog.

It’s the only purpose is to make the game prettier. It distracts you when playing and has affected FPS. It looks nice, but in competitive play, all I care about is optimizing and keeping my FPS from dropping. 

Transparent Goalposts - ON

Enables see-through walls when inside or near a goal.

Turn this ON because when you're in a goal you will want to see where's the ball without the indicator.

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