MP1st is here to bring you the Avatar Frontiers of Pandora best settings on PC and consoles that ensure the best experience from our own testing! Read on for the best graphics, gameplay settings and more that you’ll want to use while playing.

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora Best Settings Consoles – Performance or Quality Mode?

On both the Xbox Series and PlayStation 5, Avatar Frontiers of Pandora offers quality and performance modes. Quality targets 4K resolution while dropping the performance down to 30 FPS. On the other hand, performance targets 60 FPS at the cost of resolution being lower than 4K. 

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora is a gorgeous game, so we can understand why you want to opt for quality mode to get the best visuals possible. However, from our testing, the 30 FPS mode doesn’t feel that smooth of an experience, especially for a first-person shooter. Performance still struggles to hold a solid 60 FPS, but overall, the drop in visuals is worth the sacrifice for a more optimized experience. That smoother framerate is going to help you when the action kicks up.

Motion blur is forced off in performance mode for those wondering, while quality keeps it optional, though we recommend it if you use quality mode. 

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora Best Settings – Nvidia 4090 GPU – Ultra – 4K

With this GPU and a strong enough CPU, you should be able to run Avatar Frontiers of Pandora on its highest possible preset and at 4K. These are my settings, though I did force a 60 FPS lock, 100 FPS or higher is achievable. 

Video

• Windowed Mode – Fullscreen or Borderless Fullscreen
• Aspect Ratio – Whatever suits your monitor. 
• Resolution – Select by monitor.
• Refresh Rate – Select by monitor.
• Temporal Upscaler – If you are using Nvidia, stick with DLSS. No frame gen option, but we found this to be the ideal option. AMD cards use Fidelity FX and frame generation. 
• Frame Generation – ON for AMD cards, off if you notice issues with Nvidia cards.
• Scaling Quality – Ultra Performance – We found this fixed most of the stutter we experienced. 
• V-Synce – On
• Frame Rate Limit – Off for uncapped, On for lock. 

Graphics

• Motion Blur – Off 
• Depth of Field – Off – We noticed it blurred things in the background too strongly, even on the low setting, and it came off as more distracting.
• Shadow Quality – High
• Sun Contact Shadows – High 
• Spot Shadows – High
• Spot Shadows Resolution – Very High 
• Shadow Proxies – Off
• Specular Reflections – Very High 
• Diffuse Reflections – High
• Environment Reflection Quality – High 
• Volumetric Clouds – High
• Volumetric Fog – Ultra
• Extra Streaming Distance – 10
• Object Detail – 25
• BVH Quality – High
• Microdetail Quality – Ultra
• Particle Quality – High
• Scatter Density – Ultra
• Dither Fade – On
• Spotlight Projection Resolution – 512
• Destruction Quality – High 
• Terrain Tessellation – Ultra

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora Best Settings – Nvidia 4070 GPU –  Tested 1080P-4K (Mainly 4K)

Our second build was with a 4070. For the most, it can handle everything on Ultra also. We went with quality rather than performance though on this build. 

Video

• Windowed Mode – Fullscreen or Borderless Fullscreen
• Aspect Ratio – Whatever suits your monitor. 
• Resolution – Select by monitor.
• Refresh Rate – Select by monitor.
• Temporal Upscaler – If you are using Nvidia, stick with DLSS. No frame gen option, but we found this to be the ideal option. AMD cards use Fidelity FX and frame generation. 
• Frame Generation – ON for AMD cards, off if you notice issues with Nvidia cards.
• Scaling Quality – Ultra Performance – We found this fixed most of the stutter we experienced. 
• V-Sync – On
• Scaling Mode – Fixed
• Frame Rate Limit – Off for uncapped, On for lock. 

Graphics

• Motion Blur – Off 
• Depth of Field – Off – We noticed it blurred things in the background too strongly, even on the low setting, and it came off as more distracting.
• Shadow Quality – High
• Sun Contact Shadows – High 
• Spot Shadows – High
• Spot Shadows Resolution – Very High 
• Shadow Proxies – Off
• Specular Reflections – Very High 
• Diffuse Reflections – High
• Environment Reflection Quality – High 
• Volumetric Clouds – High
• Volumetric Fog – Ultra
• Extra Streaming Distance – 10
• Object Detail – 18
• BVH Quality – High
• Microdetail Quality – Ultra
• Particle Quality – High
• Scatter Density – Ultra
• Dither Fade – On
• Spotlight Projection Resolution – 512
• Destruction Quality – High 
• Terrain Tessellation – Ultra

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora Best Settings – Nvidia 3080 GPU – Tested 1080P-4K (Mainly 4K)

Our final build is running a 3000 series Nvidia card. We had to turn down the graphics in order to get a smooth experience, but it’s a smooth one nonetheless, and the game still looks gorgeous. 

Video

• Windowed Mode – Fullscreen or Borderless Fullscreen
• Aspect Ratio – Whatever suits your monitor. 
• Resolution – Select by monitor.
• Refresh Rate – Select by monitor.
• Temporal Upscaler – For this build, we noticed that AMD Fidelity FX offered a smoother experience than Nvidia DLSS, though DLSS is still great to use.
• Frame Generation – ON for AMD cards, off if you notice issues with Nvidia cards.
• Scaling Quality – Ultra Performance 
• Scaling Mode – Fixed
• V-Sync – On
• Frame Rate Limit – Off for uncapped, On for lock. 

Graphics

• Motion Blur – Off 
• Depth of Field – Off – We noticed it blurred things in the background too strongly, even on the low setting, and it came off as more distracting.
• Shadow Quality – High
• Sun Contact Shadows – Medium
• Spot Shadows – High
• Spot Shadows Resolution – High 
• Shadow Proxies – Off
• Specular Reflections – Medium
• Diffuse Reflections – Medium
• Environment Reflection Quality – Medium
• Volumetric Clouds – Medium
• Volumetric Fog – High
• Extra Streaming Distance – 5
• Object Detail – 15
• BVH Quality – High
• Microdetail Quality – High
• Particle Quality – High
• Scatter Density – High
• Dither Fade – On
• Spotlight Projection Resolution – 512
• Destruction Quality – High 
• Terrain Tessellation – High

Noticing Avatar Pandora Frontier Stuttering?

During the review process, we noticed some micro stuttering occurring and, in rare cases, heavy dips during cutscenes. The micro stuttering was a consistent issue until I started messing around with the in-game and Windows FPS options. If you notice some stuttering, for Nvidia cards, you can force the FPS to 60 FPS, while in-game, you’ll want to set the FPS limiter to 120 FPS. I had initially set it to 60, which still had stutters, but sliding it to 120 FPS while the software locked the frame game was a rock-solid 60FPS experience. 

As mentioned, there is no DLSS Frame Generation support, only from AMD cards. You’ll either need to wait for a mod or Ubisoft to add it officially. 

There you go, our graphic best settings for Avatar Frontiers of Pandora on PC. 

Avatar Frontiers of Pandora Best Settings for PC and Consoles – General Settings

Gameplay 

• Quest Guidance – Guided – The waypoint system in the game is pretty annoying as is, so guided does help navigate the world a tad better.
• Field of View – 90-95
• Exit Photo Mode When Taking Damage – On
• Auto Complete Sid Lock – I recommend keeping it as is for a while to enjoy the feature, though you may want to turn it autocomplete as the mechanic can get old and boring.
• Auto Complete Sid Hacking – I recommend keeping it as is to enjoy the feature, though you may want to turn it to autocomplete as the mechanic can get old and boring.
• Memory Painting Difficulty – I recommend keeping it as is to enjoy the feature, though you may want to turn it to autocomplete as the mechanic can get old and boring.
• Gathering Complexity – When you pick up plants, a mini-game plays out. This game determines the quality of the plant, offering you higher-quality crafting materials. I turned this off, as gathering is essential to the game, meaning you’ll do it a lot. That can get very annoying, so skipping the game and just going straight to picking up plants is the better way to play, even if your crafting quality suffers. 

Display 

• Dither Fade – Off

The rest is user preference, such as accessibility options and HUD options. Play around with what you think is best for you in those settings. Otherwise, most of what I recommend above are the major ones you should change. 

There is nothing too complicated here outside of PC configurations. We generally found Avatar Frontiers of Pandora to be a decently optimized game. No significant performance dips were had outside the initial stuttering fixed with the above steps. But these are the best settings we found for Avatar Frontiers of Pandora on consoles and PC. 

If there are any major changes or issues we see players having, we’ll update the guide with more tips. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out our full Avatar Frontiers of Pandora review, just in case you need convincing on whether the game is worth playing or not.