--- title: Stop enabling DLSS until you've checked these 7 in-game... description: Before enabling DLSS to recover lost frames, seven in-game graphics settings are worth adjusting first. Shadow quality is the top offender, with an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-enabling-dlss-until-you-ve-checked-these-7-in-game-settings-first-zdccj1a20 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stop enabling DLSS until you've checked these 7 in-game settings first | daily.dev og:description: Before enabling DLSS to recover lost frames, seven in-game graphics settings are worth adjusting first. Shadow quality is the top offender, with an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-enabling-dlss-until-you-ve-checked-these-7-in-game-settings-first-zdccj1a20 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZDccj1A20.png og:image:alt: Stop enabling DLSS until you've checked these 7 in-game settings first og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stop enabling DLSS until you've checked these 7 in-game settings first **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Before enabling DLSS to recover lost frames, seven in-game graphics settings are worth adjusting first. Shadow quality is the top offender, with an ultra-to-high drop often recovering 10–15% performance. Volumetric lighting and fog are similarly expensive for their situational visual payoff. Ambient occlusion mid-to-high differences are hard to spot in motion, making it a low-regret reduction. Reflections, especially ray-traced ones, are a known frame sink but more visually noticeable, so a step down rather than full disable is recommended. Anti-aliasing method matters — switching from MSAA to TAA can recover significant frames in older titles. Post-processing extras like depth of field and bloom can cost real frame time. Texture quality is the exception: it's VRAM-bound, not compute-bound, so lowering it rarely helps unless VRAM is saturated. The goal is to optimize native settings before layering upscaling on top. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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