While Pacific Drive may not immediately strike players as graphically demanding, its intricate details and procedurally generated areas can strain PC resources, even on high-end rigs. Despite not aiming for hyper-realism, traversing through the intricately detailed Olympic Exclusion Zone can challenge even powerful systems to maintain a stable framerate.
Improving PC Performance in Pacific Drive
It’s important to adhere to the game’s minimum and recommended system requirements, which can be found on the official Steam page. However, even with hardware exceeding these specifications, achieving a consistent 60 fps framerate can be elusive. To optimize your gaming experience, consider adjusting the following settings:
- Brightness: No impact on performance; adjust to personal preference.
- Motion Blur: Personal preference; does not affect performance.
- Windowed Mode: Switch to Fullscreen for better performance.
- Screen Percentage: Reduce to 80 if struggling with performance.
- Vertical Sync: Preferably enabled.
- Anti-Aliasing Method: FXAA for performance boost, despite potential blurriness.
- DLSS: Opt for Performance or Ultra Performance based on frame rate.
- DLSS Sharpening: Set to 1.0 for Ultra Performance.
- View Distance: Medium.
- Shadows: Medium.
- Anti-aliasing: High.
- Textures: Medium.
- Effects: Medium.
- Post Processing: Medium or Low.
- Foliage: Low.
- Shaders: Medium.
- Headlights Cast Shadows: On.
- Mirror Shadow Quality: Medium.
- Mirror Fog Rendering: Off.
- Mirror Grass Rendering: Off.
- Mirror Distant Shadows: Off.
- Mirror Resolution Scale: Medium.
- Mirror Detail Distance: High.
- Mirror Draw Distance: High.
- Cascade Shadow Distance Scale: Medium.
- Screen Space Shadows: Off.
After experimentation, we found this configuration ideal for users with lower-end systems or those prioritizing framerate over graphical fidelity. Adjusting settings to medium significantly improved performance in Pacific Drive, though finding the right balance may require further tweaking. As a last resort, lowering resolution can dramatically boost framerate, albeit at the cost of visual quality. We remain hopeful that ongoing updates will further optimize performance in Pacific Drive.
