Survival title Solarpunk is now available in version 1.0, and you can tweak a fair bit of settings if you’re on PC. This isn’t a graphically intensive game, but almost every new launch has some optimization issues or other.
This guide will help you ensure that you’re running Solarpunk at maximum frames and without any lags.
Best Solarpunk graphics settings
Before I deep dive into the best settings, here’s a summary of my current setup.
- 32 GB of DDR4 RAM
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
- AMD Radeon RT 9060 XT
My system is comfortably above the recommended settings, but yours might not be. Nevertheless, the following list of settings will help you run Solarpunk without any lag or stutters.
- Quality: Medium (This seems like the sweet spot if your PC is old. While you can go lower and get better performance, Medium shouldn’t create much of a problem. Unfortunately, only presets are available in the current build of the game).
- Display: Borderless (I did encounter a stutter or two when it started to rain, and the display was on Fullscreen. Going Borderless seems like the better option).
- Vsync: It’s best to keep this off if you’re not having any lags. If you encounter lags, however, you should enable this. While Vsync will limit the frames you get, it results in smoother gameplay.
- FOV: 80 (This is the lowest you can go, and it’s fine if you want to avoid lag. Having a higher FOV is a luxury since this isn’t Call of Duty, where we will want to detect the enemy from as far as we can).
Overall, Solarpunk goes easy on all modern systems due to its low requirements. The performance also appears to be better compared to the earlier demo, which is a positive.
