Best Marvel Rivals PC settings for higher FPS

Marvel Rivals looks great on PC, but here’s how to max out your frames per second (FPS), while compromising on visual quality as little as possible.

Marvel Rivals is a third-person arena shooter set in the Marvel Universe that lets players control over 30 characters from across the Avengers, X-Men, and other Marvel Comics. It’s a competitive game so you’ll always want to be playing your best, and locking in the best controller and PC settings is key.

Fortunately, the game’s interface is user-friendly and simple to understand, so optimizing it for your PC should be a breeze. Below we’ll go over the best settings on PC to make Marvel Rivals maximize frames per second.

Best settings for max FPS in Marvel Rivals

While Marvel Rivals isn’t a demanding game, even those with a high-end PC who easily surpass the recommended requirements have complained that optimization isn’t very good. So, to get smoother frame rates, you will want to tweak the settings.

As of the Season 1 patch, the developers added a setting that allows you to lower your settings even further than you could before. And, with how many optimization issues this game has, you’re going to want to lower your settings almost as low as they can go.

This is unfortunate because Marvel Rivals is a great looking game. However, if you want to maintain a decent refresh rate when Doctor Strange portals or other visually dense abilities go off, you’ll need to keep things low unless you’ve got a supercomputer.

So, for best results, to maintain high FPS and good visibility, switch the settings to the following:

Graphics settings

• Graphics Quality: Custom
  • You don’t need to select this – simply change the settings below and ‘Custom’ will be selected automatically.
• Global Illumination: SSGI – Low Quality
  • You’ll want this enabled, don’t turn this off even if you’re going for the lowest settings. Being able to discern what’s what is important with how much environmental destruction there is, and the game looks extremely flat with global illumination entirely off.
• Reflection Quality: Off
• Model Detail: Performance
  • The game still looks decent even with this setting on its absolute lowest, so you’re not missing out on too much by lowering this.
• Post-Processing: Low
  • This will help FPS a ton, for unnoticeable hit to graphics.
• Shadow Detail: Low
  • This almost completely disables shadows, but this is a good thing. You’ll want as clear a view of the game as possible, and ability AoEs will be much more important to see than shadows.
• Texture Detail: Low
• Effects Detail: Low
  • There’s a genuine advantage to be had keeping this setting on low. It simplifies the look of every ability and makes hitboxes on some things much clearer.
• Foliage Quality: Low

Display settings

• Target Display: Primary Monitor
• Display mode: Fullscreen
• Aspect Ratio: 16:9
• Resolution: Your monitor’s resolution (or, if you’re running 4k, you may want to turn it down to 1440p)
• Anti-Aliasing: TAAU
  • Note: If you can avoid using DLSS or another image upscaling solution, do it. Native resolution has the least input lag, and Low Latency mode is known to cause frame hitching.
• Frame Generation mode: Off
• Low Latency Mode: Off
• V-Sync: Off

Make sure to turn V-Sync off – this setting will cause input lag and sync your framerate to your monitor’s refresh rate. You’ll want to manually limit your FPS.

Frame Generation (with AMD’s FSR 3) does promise “higher FPS”, but often the trade-offs, such as increased latency, or frame drops, are not worth it in a fast-paced arena shooter. Frame Generation works by ‘predicting’ frames too, which means they are not always accurate. But you are welcome to try it out for yourself.

Another option is to tweak the setting for Deep Level Super Sampling (DLSS). This causes a bit less input lag than Frame Generation, but it’s still noticeable. If you want the best competitive experience, run native resolution. If that truly isn’t an option for you, go for Balanced or Performance at high resolutions and Quality at 1080p.

Here’s the kicker: It’s highly, highly recommended to limit your FPS to 90-100. There’s a bug that slows down movement at low framerates, as well as a bug that increases your ping at high framerates. 90-100 FPS is the sweet spot. This will give you a competitive advantage regardless of your monitor’s refresh rate. Trust us on this one.

At the point that these bugs get patched out and optimization improves, we’ll update the article accordingly. For now, though, these settings are your best bet.

How to update graphics drivers

Having out-of-date graphics drivers can cause stuttering, low FPS, and other issues so you should make sure you’re using the latest drivers. Here’s how to update them:

NVIDIA

1. Install NVIDIA App (previously called GeForce Experience) through NVIDIA.com and then launch it.
2. Head to the ‘Drivers’ tab.
3. Hit the ‘Download‘ button in the top right corner.
4. Wait for the download to finish, and then install the drivers. We recommend restarting your PC afterward.

AMD

1. Right-click your desktop.
2. Click on AMD Radeon Settings.
3. Select the Home icon.
4. Go to ‘New Updates’ on the bottom left.
5. Click ‘check for update.’
6. If an update is available, follow the steps.

For more content on Marvel Rivals, check out how to master Season 1‘s new heroes, the Fantastic Four: The Invisible Woman, Human Torch, The Thing, and Mr Fantastic.