This guide will help you get the correct balance of performance and beauty out of Deadside.

Introduction

The point of this guide is to assist players in finding the correct graphics settings for their systems, and how they can balance the look and FPS (frames per second) of their game. The game is very early access and as of right now, has lived out 3 days on the steam store… Congrats Deadside!

The game looks beautiful even on lower end systems and settings, but boosting certain things will enhance your experience with the game.

I’ll be taking you all through each graphics setting and giving example screenshots with each difference so you can compare the changes in performance and FPS.

Mode and Resolution

As with most games, having the game set to a windowed mode will give you performance slightly less of that of a game in full screen. the difference between full screen and full screen border-less is usually negligible. I personally play my games in full screen border-less as it allows for me to tab in and out of the game to whatever else, very easily. I won’t provide any screenshots here as the differences are too small anyways. My FPS will always be shown in a small box in the top left corner of pictures for the comparisons in performance.

Resolution is easy. The lower the resolution, the better the performance. However, the higher the resolution, the better the image. Most people play on 1920 x 1080 as it is the native resolution of their monitor. If you need the extra performance, play on 1280 x 720.

1080p

720p