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Nvidia posts incredibly detailed Destiny 2 PC Graphics and Performance Guide

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https://www.geforce.com/whats-new/g...performance-guide?ncid=so-twi-dn2gspfgd-24431

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Destiny 2 Graphics Settings

Destiny 2 includes 14 options that affect game performance and graphical fidelity, along with Resolution, Field of View and VSync options, and toggles for user-preference settings like Chromatic Aberration, Motion Blur, and Film Grain. Below, we've thoroughly examined each of the core 14 options, demonstrating their image quality with interactive screenshot comparisons, and their relative performance impact with benchmarks.

And finally, we've tested overall game performance on our complete line-up of GeForce GTX 10-Series GPUs, revealing the framerates you'll receive at Destiny 2's Highest detail levels, at the three most popular gaming resolutions.

As mentioned above, Destiny 2 is a well-optimized game that runs at a rapid pace on many GPUs. Assuming you have a graphics card capable of running the game at over 60 FPS, our recommendation is to apply SMAA, and increase the game's internal rendering resolution with the "Render Resolution" option. This sidesteps SMAA's lower degree of anti-aliasing, avoids FXAA's blurring, supersamples the image to further decrease aliasing, and increases overall image quality. Essentially, it's the same result that would be seen when increasing the screen resolution, or applying NVIDIA DSR.
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Destiny 2 on PC is a fantastic experience thanks to high rendering resolutions and glorious levels of detail, plus the high refresh rates of PC monitors, the dozens of built-in configuration options, and out of the box support for G-SYNC, GeForce Experience, GeForce Experience Share, DSR, GameStream, SLI, and other PC technologies.
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For the regulars this is just the usual Andrew guide. They're all incredibly detailed.

Not saying that negatively, it's always nice to highlight good work.

Edit: Andrew, not Andy.
 
Shari said:
For the regulars this is just the usual Andrew guide. They're all incredibly detailed.

Not saying that negatively, it's always nice to highlight good work.

Edit: Andrew, not Andy.
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Yea for sure! A shit ton of effort goes into them. As a PC nerd, I love how much detail they contain.
 
It's interesting that most settings have marginal to no effect on FPS with a 1060. The only three (minus resolution) that seem to make a difference are DOF, FOV, and foliage distance.
 
Wish these guides were on video too. Don't get me wrong I still read them, but I like how for example Digital Foundry does videos alongside their written articles.
 
If anyone has a bandwidth cap, or slow Internet, here's some helpful info:

In the guide, each fullsize 4K PNG image ranges from 9MB to 20MB in size, with a total size of almost 1.6GB. To lower that number for folks with caps or slow speeds, I've created nearly-identical .jpg copies of each image that are roughly half the size, which can be accessed by changing any image URL from .png to .jpg.

For example, change https://images.nvidia.com/geforce-c...estiny-2/destiny-2-depth-of-field-001-highest.png to https://images.nvidia.com/geforce-c...estiny-2/destiny-2-depth-of-field-001-highest.jpg

These 4K .jpg images have associated comparisons, too, accessible by adding -jpg just before .html on each link. For example, https://images.nvidia.com/geforce-c...eld-interactive-comparison-001-highest-vs-low-jpg.html

If the files are still too large, we've also made downsampled 1920x1080 .jpg copies of each image, accessible by changing and adding -1920px.jpg to each link. For example, https://images.nvidia.com/geforce-c...estiny-2/destiny-2-depth-of-field-001-highest.png becomes https://images.nvidia.com/geforce-c...estiny-2/destiny-2-depth-of-field-001-highest-1920px.jpg.

And finally, these images have comparisons, too. As before, modify the URL, so any blablabla.html would become blablabla-1920px.html. For example, https://images.nvidia.com/geforce-c...eld-interactive-comparison-001-highest-vs-low-1920px.html
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Long winded, I know...

Wonko_C said:
Wish these guides were on video too. Don't get me wrong I still read them, but I like how for example Digital Foundry does videos alongside their written articles.
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The platform comparison work they do over at DF is great, but video isn't the best choice for a lot of PC setting stuff as there are so many options and detail levels, and often you need freeze-frame, full-res, full-quality comparisons to spot the changes, which you're not going to get in a compressed YouTube video.

Might be opportunities to do a complementary video talking about performance and the more visible/impactful changes, however, and that is something I'd like to explore with our dedicated video team.

Shari said:
For the regulars this is just the usual Andrew guide. They're all incredibly detailed.

Not saying that negatively, it's always nice to highlight good work.

Edit: Andrew, not Andy.
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Thanks :)
 
deoee said:
So the PC version was delayed because they had to write this incredibly detailed guide. right?
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What does nvidia have to do with the delay lol.. the game was delayed cause its not a port and built from the ground up. Even the pc lead tweeted a few weeks back sayin they were working on the game to ship it in time for 10/24
 
Strakt said:
What does nvidia have to do with the delay lol.. the game was delayed cause its not a port and built from the ground up. Even the pc lead tweeted a few weeks back sayin they were working on the game to ship it in time for 10/24
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I really appreciate how these guides end with a clear summary of which settings to lower to get the best performance boost for the least noticeable graphical changes. That's super helpful.
 
Does it have a resoulution scaler, on mobile so watching my data. It's been great since building a PC and playing on a 4k tv to just max basically everything and setting the resolution to 4k. Then simply use the slider till I get the fps I want, most of the time 30 as I use a pad and game on console alot. On some games I switch to native 4k and then set resolution scaler which can be 60 percent on a game where I want 60fps and it still looks close to native. Viewing distance and all. Also yea some of these guides I've already checked out for games like titanfall 2 make you realise how much fps is wasted for a very small improvement.
 
coastel said:
Does it have a resoulution scaler, on mobile so watching my data. It's been great since building a PC and playing on a 4k tv to just max basically everything and setting the resolution to 4k. Then simply use the slider till I get the fps I want, most of the time 30 as I use a pad and game on console alot. On some games I switch to native 4k and then set resolution scaler which can be 60 percent on a game where I want 60fps and it still looks close to native. Viewing distance and all. Also yea some of these guides I've already checked out for games like titanfall 2 make you realise how much fps is wasted for a very small improvement.
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It does - you can select any value between 25% and 200%.
 
Ahh I’ve waited for this game didn’t bother with the PS4 version. Playing destiny 2 in 60fps on pc was just so glorious.

I was gettin 75-80fps on my gtx 970 at highest settings using SMAA.

I play on a single 1080p 144hz monitor.

The game ran buttery smooth.
 
Very neat, kudos to nvidia and Andrew of course for making such guides for major releases, also found the Witcher 3 guide very helpful back in the day.

btw: I like the fact that the GTX 1060 was chosen as a benchmark there, so the people with mainstream gpus can see what to expect(also the ones with an GTX970 from a few years ago, as the 1060 is close to its performance most of the time)
 
AndyBNV said:
It does - you can select any value between 25% and 200%.
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Good I really don't mind losing a bit of resolution to keep other settings high especially as I said there isn't to much of a difference till you go really low. It's a great setting when your using a tv as you can't select resoulutions like 1440p on one,
 
Great guide as always. Too bad the game came so late after the beta, the PC delay and the bad mutliplayer made me lose all interest.
 
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