PUBG: Battlegrounds Settings Guide: Screen Scale, View Distance and More

PUBG: Battlegrounds is a game about information. The player who spots the other first usually wins, whether that's a helmet over a ridge on Erangel or a shape in a window on Taego. Your graphics settings play a big part in that. Some options make the image cleaner and sightlines longer; others add atmosphere while quietly hiding people.

Display

• Display mode: Fullscreen.
• Resolution: Native.
• FPS cap: Custom, matched to your refresh rate or a bit above. Unlimited only if you're far above it.
• V-Sync: Off.
• NVIDIA Reflex: On if available.
• FOV (first-person): 90–103. Higher shows more but makes distant players smaller.

Screen scale: keep it at 100

Screen Scale changes the internal render resolution. Anything below 100 makes the image blurry, which is a big deal when you're scanning a treeline for a single pixel of helmet. Going above 100 sharpens things further but costs a lot. For most people, 100 is right. If you need more frames, lower other settings before touching this one.

Graphics settings

Keep higher

• Anti-aliasing: Medium to Ultra. It's fairly cheap and stops distant edges from shimmering.
• Textures: Medium to Ultra depending on VRAM.
• View distance: Medium to High. Buildings and players at range render more reliably.

Lower

• Post-processing: Very Low. Higher settings add bloom and haze.
• Shadows: Very Low to Medium. Very Low removes a lot of shadow noise; some players prefer Medium for depth cues.
• Foliage: Very Low. This reduces grass and bush density at distance, which also helps FPS.
• Effects: Very Low. Smoke and explosions cost frames and can hide people.
• Motion blur: Off.

Sharpening

If the game offers a sharpen option, turning it on helps counter the softness from anti-aliasing. It's cheap and makes distant details a little crisper.

Audio

Footsteps, vehicles and gunshot direction matter enormously. Use headphones, turn the lobby and in-game music down, and test whether a spatial audio option helps with directional sound on your headset.

PC basics

1. Install on an SSD. It helps a lot with the drop into the map and texture loading when landing.
2. Keep your GPU driver updated.
3. Close background apps, especially video in browsers.

Recap

Screen scale at 100, healthy anti-aliasing, textures and view distance, and everything that adds haze or clutter (post-processing, foliage, effects) turned down. You'll get a cleaner image and more frames at the same time. For another open-map game, see our ARMA Reforger guide, or the rest of the PentaSharp blog.