Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord - Settings for Best Performance

In towns and villages, I would not say that there is a particularly big difference between medium and very high, and the same goes for the conversations of the characters. Yes, Medium doesn't have as much climbing grass as High or Very High settings, but trees and mountains are relatively similar in the distance, as are individual character details such as clothing textures and facial hair.

Instead, it's only when you start playing on Low that the game starts to look decidedly worse. In the cities, the foliage is stripped down to large clumps of dirt, and the lighting starts to look a little wobbly. In terms of character conversations, you can also see the old merchant's beard go from a fairly full chin of curls to an uneven, rather pathetic-looking patchwork quilt. Even the poor man's eyebrows shrink in size. And very low… well, it's more of a horror show than anything else.

The good news is that even my GTX 1060 could issue stable 60 fps on the world map when I played on very high level in 1920×1080 , and often climbed to highs around 75 fps. Riding through towns occasionally caused the figure to drop closer to 50fps (dismounting and walking pushed it closer to 55-60fps), but overall the game was still very smooth and playable.

Naturally, the reduction in quality to high resulted in frame rates well above the 60 mark cadres в give me a sec , on average about 75 frames в give me a sec in the world with maximums of 80 frames per second. Towns and villages were also roughly the same, depending on the complexity of the scene.

However, take a look at Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord's settings menu and you'll find a surprising amount of similarities between High and Very High, making it easy to spot the most demanding settings. Both quality modes have the same Shader, Texture, Terrain, Water and Lighting Quality settings such as (High), and they both have other effects such as Interactive Grass, Sun Shafts, Subsurface Scattering, Tesselation and Bloom included further down the menu. options too, so you would actually be doing yourself a disservice by dropping them further.

Instead, it's the other settings (the ones that are different) where you want to focus your attention. Indeed, a simple change smoothing from Temporal SMAA x2 to normal Temporal SMAA led к to that what's my frame rate in the world exceeded 75-80 personnel in second at a very high level , That is good incentive for one change of setting. Compare this to 5fps increase, which I saw, just changing shadow quality from Very High to High , and I think you'll agree that removing anti-aliasing should be your first port of call if you're having performance issues.

The second thing you should do is set up environmental detail . While it didn't make much of an impact, as I drove around the world map, increasing my average frame rate by about 5 fps or so, I saw it go up by 10-15 frames per second, when I entered a city or village on a very high speeds , averaging about 70fps with Temporal SMAA x2 enabled, and about 83fps with regular temporal SMAA. What's more, I didn't notice a significant drop in overall image quality.

These are the settings that had the most impact during my testing, but another quick and easy way to improve frame rates is to take advantage of Mount and Blade 2: bannerlord resolution scale . You'll find this under the Video tab, not the Performance menu in Settings (as shown above), and it allows you to run the game at a percentage of the desktop resolution, like 90% or 83% of 1920×1080, for example. The game is then scaled to your chosen desktop resolution and can help take some pressure off your GPU without resetting to full resolution settings.

You can also adjust it in steps of one to 20%, which gives you a lot of flexibility - though I would recommend keeping it as high as possible, as 20% of 1920x1080 means you're technically only at a measly 384x216! 90%, on the other hand, will upscale from 1728×972 resolution.