Battlefield 6 is a surprisingly well-optimized game, but on PC, getting the most out of its performance can be tricky. With a long list of complicated settings, you'd be forgiven for not knowing which ones are impacting your frame rate the most. Thanks to Digital Foundry, however, there's now a clear answer to this quandary.
A Digital Foundry YouTube video confirms that the two biggest performance offenders are Sun Shadow Quality and Screen Space AO & GI. In both cases, the highest settings result in significantly lower frame rates with minimal visual returns.
For Sun Shadow Quality, Digital Foundry recommends the High setting for GPUs equivalent to the RTX 3070 and above, and Medium for GPUs below this threshold. For Screen Space AO & GI, high-end GPUs can use SSGI Low, and lower-end GPUs can use GTAO Low.
Both of these Battlefield 6 settings deal with complicated aspects of shadows, which makes their performance impact unsurprising. Even without ray-tracing, lighting and shadows can be some of the most intensive settings in any game. In Battlefield 6, turning down Sun Shadow Quality to Medium or High will save between six and eight frames, and turning down AO & GI will...
