Avowed: Best Settings for Optimization

Avowed is a new game so these settings will be subject to change. I will do my best to change them when an update comes out. If I miss a notable change please let me know! I will do my best to test it myself and add it to this guide. I try my best to update all of my guides as frequently as needed.

As far as overall performance goes, Avowed seems to be a pretty well optimized game but it still suffers from some of the usual Unreal Engine 5 issues and quirks.

Window Mode – Windowed Fullscreen
VSync – Off (On for some users)
Ray Tracing – On if you can afford it, Off for most users
Upscaling – AMD FidelityFX 3 / NVIDIA DLSS3/4
FSR Super Resolution (AMD)– Quality is the best bang for buck. Balanced is fine too. Anything lower and the image begins to degrade heavily.
FSR Sharpness (AMD) – 100%
DLSS Super Resolution Quality (Nvidia) – Balanced
Reflex Low Latency (Nvidia) – On
View Distance – High
Shadow Quality – Medium
Texture Quality – High
Shading Quality – Medium
Effects Quality – High
Foliage Quality – High
Post Processing Quality – Medium
Reflection Quality – Low
Global Illumination Quality – High

Unfortunately while Avowed is certainly playable at around 30 FPS the image quality takes a monumental hit on the deck. My recommendation would be to follow the below settings, however if you would like to increase performance at the cost of some frames tinker with Texture Quality and Post Processing Quality a little bit and that could help.

Window Mode – Windowed Fullscreen
VSync – Off
Ray Tracing – Off
Upscaling – AMD FidelityFX 3 / NVIDIA DLSS3/4
FSR Super Resolution (AMD) – Balanced or Performance
FSR Sharpness (AMD) – Player choice here, start at 50% and move your way up.
View Distance – Low
Shadow Quality – Low
Texture Quality – Low
Shading Quality – Low
Effects Quality – Low
Foliage Quality – Low
Post Processing Quality – Low
Reflection Quality – Low
Global Illumination Quality – Low

Finally be sure that you do the following:

1. Enter the game’s properties
2. Head over to the “Compatibility” tab
3. Enable “Proton Hotfix”

This will ensure that if there are any deck oriented fixes you will get them first.

If you’d like to skip the intros on Avowed you can do the following:

1. Head on over to this link[www.nexusmods.com]
2. Select ‘Files’ next to ‘Description’
3. Select ‘Manual Download’
4. Unzip the file and head on over to where your game is downloaded, normally located at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Avowed
5. Copy the ‘Alabama’ file in your download and paste it in the above location.
6. When asked to replace the files located in this location, select ‘Replace the files in the destination’