Best Rainbow Six Siege settings for high performance on PC
Changing your mouse’s DPI or your in-game sensitivity settings won’t increase your frames in Siege, but you should go over them after making the above changes to your video settings.
R6-da fps-i necə məhdudlaşdıra bilərəm?
Here’s what I did, thanks for the replies in any case.
– In the Nvidia control panel I went to applications and set Vsync “Application controlled” only for Rainbow six siege.
– Ingame settings Vsync is turned off, so my game gets maximum performance ingame, but while in the menu it’s capped to 60, this way my GPU is alot cooler then having the constant 1000+ FPS in the main menu.
If anyone else is having this issue I’d recommend doing this, altough it’s a shame that there’s no option for this in the game itself.
Отредактировано Jordyy; 10 окт. 2017 в 8:19
10 окт. 2017 в 8:31
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Here’s what I did, thanks for the replies in any case.
– In the Nvidia control panel I went to applications and set Vsync “Application controlled” only for Rainbow six siege.
– Ingame settings Vsync is turned off, so my game gets maximum performance ingame, but while in the menu it’s capped to 60, this way my GPU is alot cooler then having the constant 1000+ FPS in the main menu.
If anyone else is having this issue I’d recommend doing this, altough it’s a shame that there’s no option for this in the game itself.
Best Rainbow Six Siege settings for high performance on PC
Most first-person-shooter games, including Rainbow Six Siege, adjust your settings automatically when you first launch the game. While the algorithms behind this process do their best to give you good results, the preset settings are unlikely to deliver optimal performance.
Depending on your gaming rig’s performance and your monitor’s refresh rate, you’ll need to make some adjustments via Siege’s in-game settings. Some changes will help you achieve higher frame rates, and others will optimize the way you play the game. But it may get confusing inside the menus due to the immense number of customization options.
The following settings are optimized for the smoothest gameplay experience, without sacrificing much in terms of graphics. They will allow you to take full advantage of your gaming peripherals, given that you have powerful enough hardware.
Don’t hesitate to make any changes you deem fit since some of the settings can also be up to personal preference. If a setting isn’t mentioned in this article, it’s best not to mess with it, or it may not impact your game’s performance.
Here are the best settings for Rainbow Six Siege on PC.
Screengrab via Ubisoft
Screengrab via Ubisoft
General settings
- Ping: On
- While ping indicating directions from your teammates can be annoying sometimes, they’re the best way to communicate with your squad members who don’t have a microphone. Keeping this on should keep you up-to-date with the latest information around the map, and you can always turn it off if someone starts abusing the feature.
- If the information box doesn’t bother you, keeping this setting will allow you to keep track of your network ping and frame-rates during a game. This will help you pinpoint all issues affecting your game’s performance.
Audio settings
- Voice Chat Record Mode: Push-to-Talk
- Siege is a game of information. Being mechanically talented won’t cut it to get to the highest ranks since you can’t possibly know everything going on around the game’s gigantic maps. Voice chat is the best way to make calls during a game of Siege, and a team that communicates will always be one step ahead of one that doesn’t. Using push-to-talk will spare your teammates the sound of your top-of-the-line mechanical keyboard, which can distract others.
- If you’d like to take a moment before starting a sentence, keeping your voice chat level above zero can give you the time you need after pressing your push-to-talk button. This setting allows Siege to pick up your voice only if it exceeds a certain level.
Display settings
- Monitor: Pick your main monitor
- If you’re running a multiple monitor setup, make sure to pick your dedicated gaming monitor.
- Though running Siege in Windowed or Borderless Window modes will allow you to switch tabs faster, playing in the Display Modes introduces input lag. Playing in Fullscreen will allow your system only to render Siege, thus improving your game’s overall performance.
- VSync can be helpful if you’re struggling to maintain stable frame rates, but the feature also introduces a certain level of input lag. In games like Siege, where milliseconds can matter, disabling any option that introduces such drawbacks will give you the best advantage.
- This is a purely cosmetic setting that adds black bars on top and bottom of your screen to let you have a more cinematic experience while playing Siege. Though it’s a nice idea, it reduces your view area, making it a no-go for competitive players.
- The default Field of View (FoV) setting of Siege is 60, but Ubisoft allows players to push the settings up to 90. Doing so will increase your vertical FoV, and most professional players prefer keeping this setting at least above 80. Keep in mind that you’ll also be rendering more frames when you increase your FoV, so you’ll need to find your sweet spot if you have any concerns about performance.
Graphics settings
Image via Ubisoft
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Setting the texture quality to low will give you the highest frame-per-second (FPS), but the difference between low and medium texture quality is highly noticeable in Siege. Go for medium if your PC can still run the game at smooth frame rates since it will also make spotting enemies easier.
- This setting has the lowest impact on your overall game performance. Texture filtering fixes the blurring that can occur when you look at specific objects in Siege from different angles. You can also experiment with higher volumes to find the best configuration for your setup, but 4x offers the best of both worlds.
- LOD quality adjusts the distance that lower level of details start rendering. Operator’ heads are one of these details, and keeping this setting at Low can cause them to be rendered in a triangular shape that can make aiming even harder. Go with one of the higher settings to give yourself the best competitive advantage.
- Siege rounds play out slowly, and you’ll need every piece of information you can get. Enemy shadows are essential to spot enemies before they start peeking at you and setting shadow quality to low disables operator shadows. Set this setting to at least medium to take advantage of dynamic shadows.
- Shading quality adjusts rendering’s visual fidelity by tweaking settings like skin subsurface scattering and lightning quality. None of the two provide any competitive advantage in Siege and can be considered as eye-candy. Set this to Low for higher framers.
- Reflection quality is another eye-candy setting that doesn’t offer any competitive edge. Adjust it to Low to give yourself an FPS boost.
- Ambient occlusion is one of the graphical settings that have the most impact on how Siege looks. While it makes the game look beautiful in terms of colors and lighting, it reduces its performance by a considerable margin. If you’re struggling to get your frames up, this should be the first setting to turn off.
- Lens effects help Siege simulate real-world optical lenses by adding effects like blooming into the game. It drains a ton of resources, however, so we recommend keeping it off.
- This setting blurs the edges of your scope when you aim down sight. It’s a visual gimmick that makes Siege more realistic, but you should keep it off for performance’s sake.
- Anti-Aliasing makes games look sharper but is also a performance hog. Turning it off will give you a nice frame boost.
Honourable mention: Adjust your sensitivity settings
Changing your mouse’s DPI or your in-game sensitivity settings won’t increase your frames in Siege, but you should go over them after making the above changes to your video settings.
Sensitivity settings and keybinds often depend on personal preference, meaning there isn’t a best layout that works for all players. Check your favorite professional players’ settings and test if their layouts work for you. You can also tune them to your liking with further adjustments.
Considering you’ll be optimizing your in-game settings by applying the settings above, doing it so for your sensitivity settings can help drastically when it comes to boosting your in-game performance as a player.
Other methods to increase in-game performance in Rainbow Six Siege
Optimizing your settings may not always yield the most feasible results in terms of FPS. Though each graphical setting is taxing in one way, you could be experiencing a lackluster performance due to an issue surrounding your PC.
Overheating hardware is usually the first offender, and you should work with a professional to investigate what’s wrong if you haven’t done something similar before.
Here’s what you can do on your own, though.
Rainbow Six Siege – R6 Network Icons
Will appear when your ping is high. A yellow latency icon means your ping is high enough for additional validation steps to be triggered by the server (around 100-140 ms of ping). These additional validation steps come into play when treating your shots, and determining whether or not they are a hit. You might notice some of your hits are not registering. Having a high ping also means you could encounter unpleasant situations such as dying behind cover. A red icon means your ping is bad (around 400-500 ms of ping). Being in that state for a long time could result in player being kicked from the game server. When the latency red icon is visible, almost all of your hits will be rejected by the server. This is intended.
Connection Icon
The connection icon appears when you are experiencing packet loss or latency instability (for example, when some of your packets are being redirected on another internet route). When this icon is triggered, you can experience rubber banding, hits being rejected by the game server, and abnormal induced latency. The probability of experiencing those situations is far higher when the red icon is visible.
FPS Icon
FPS or Update rate icon appears when your frame rate is dropping or is unstable and the number of packets sent by your game client to the server is not high enough. You might experience hits being rejected by the game server and abnormal induced latency (this latency is induced by the game server to prevent other players from seeing your character stuttering). You could also experience rubber banding when the icon is red.
Host Icon
The host icons appears when the server is experiencing issues and is unable to preserve the stability of the simulation. All players connected to that game server will see the icon appearing at the same time. When you see this icon, you can experience rubber banding, abnormal latency or hit registration issues. Those situations will be more noticeable if the icon is red.
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