The latest title in the skate series has been released in early access and carries great potential. In terms of graphics and animations, the game offers a realistic feel for players with high-end devices. However, there’s a clash of interests in getting either a high FPS or good performance on less capable devices. As Skate 4 has an always-online requirement and currently lacks a story mode, optimizing the settings for optimal performance is crucial. Therefore, in this article, we have listed a few tweaks you may try to improve the game’s FPS while maintaining reasonable performance and quality.
Skate 4: Best Steam Deck and PC settings for high FPS and performance
Best settings for PC are given below:
- Windows mode: Fullscreen
- V-Sync: Off (if you have G-Sync/FreeSync; otherwise On to avoid tearing)
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Upscaling: None (use FSR/XeSS only if struggling)
- Anti-Aliasing: FXAA
- Global Graphics Quality: Custom
- Texture Filtering: High
- Texture Quality: High (Medium if VRAM is low)
- Global Illumination: Dynamic
- Lighting Quality: High
- Shadow Quality: Medium (High if GPU is strong)
- Mesh Quality: High
- Visual Effects Quality: High (drop to Medium if needed)
- Post Processing: High (Medium if struggling)
- Ambient Occlusion Quality: High (Medium for weaker GPUs)
- Depth of Field Quality: Medium (Off if you dislike blur)
- Motion Blur Quality: Off
Additionally, here are some non-graphics-related settings to make Skate 4 realistic and smoother. These consist of General settings, controls & stance, assist, and more:
- UI elements: OFF
- Follow strength: 2
- Field of view: 80
- Onboard camera offset: 4
- Camera framing: High
- Switch side control: On
- Dynamic side switching: Off
- Camera shake: Off
- Flick sensitivity: Adjust as per controller (default 0–2)
- Hold fakey stance: On
- Push controls: Fixed feet
- Grind assist: 10
- Pump assist: 15
- Allow fall height: 2
- Minimum pop height: 100
- Friendly wipeout threshold: Off
- Trick toggles: On
- Pre wind spin: Hold in the spin direction
Next, we will discuss these settings for Steam Deck. Most of the graphics settings that were either set to medium or remain unchanged. This can help users get a satisfactory gameplay experience along with a smooth experience on the Steam Deck.
That will be all from Digistatement. If you are struggling to find the best settings for your device, please let us know its specifications, and we’ll look into it. In the meantime, you can check other articles on our site for guides, fixes, updates, and more related to several games.