NTE Graphics Settings Guide: Low-End Optimization, Max FPS, Fixing Stutter & Screen Tearing

The short answer: the three biggest stutter killers are “Overall Graphics Quality, View Distance, and city traffic/crowd density” — drop these three first, turn on upscaling (DLSS/FSR/TSR) set to Performance, then lock the frame rate cap and force-enable VSync in your GPU control panel to fix tearing. On low-end rigs, push graphics down to the Performance preset and View Distance to minimum; on high-end rigs you can then chase ray tracing and high resolution.

Neverness to Everness is an open-world city built on Unreal Engine 5. It streams a huge amount of scene data, putting pressure on the CPU, GPU, and storage all at once — if any one link is weak (for example, installed on an HDD, or VRAM maxing out) you will get visible stutter. The good news is that with the right settings, anything from a low-end to a high-end rig can run more smoothly. This article covers “how to tune the graphics settings”; if you first want to confirm whether your machine can even run it, read this alongside the system requirements rundown — specs and settings complement each other.

Note: after game updates, menu names and options may change. The descriptions below are general guidelines, and you should always defer to the current in-game version for the actual options.

First, understand: which settings hit performance the hardest?

You do not need to touch every single option when tuning settings — just grab the few levers with the highest “bang for the buck.” In a UE5 open world like NTE, the ones with the biggest impact are usually:

• Overall Graphics Quality preset (Graphics Quality): a one-click master switch that raises or lowers all the detail options at once — the fastest overall control.
• View Distance: determines how far out the engine has to “draw” the city. On a low-end machine, dropping this gives the biggest payoff, easing the load on both CPU and GPU.
• City traffic / crowd density (Traffic / NPC density): reduces the number of vehicles and NPCs being simulated at the same time, directly lowering CPU/GPU load in open-world areas.
• Frame Rate Cap: locks down a target frame rate, avoiding the jarring feel of FPS swinging high and low.
• Ray Tracing / Path Tracing: adds the most to image quality, but is also the most performance-hungry — not recommended to force unless you have a top-tier GPU.

By comparison, texture maps, post-processing, anti-aliasing, and motion blur have a smaller impact on frame rate, so you can fine-tune them to taste (a lot of people just turn motion blur off).

Upscaling tech: how to choose between DLSS / FSR / TSR

Upscaling is the main workhorse for boosting FPS in modern games — it lets the game render at a lower resolution and then uses AI to scale up to your screen resolution, with small quality loss and a big frame rate gain. It is recommended on nearly every configuration.

Your GPU	Recommended upscaler	Notes
NVIDIA RTX (especially 40/50 series)	DLSS	Can pair with Ray Reconstruction and frame generation for the best results
AMD Radeon	FSR or TSR	In-game FSR may only offer the “Quality” preset
Intel Arc / others	TSR	Built into UE5, highly compatible

Upscaling modes run roughly from high quality to high performance like this: Quality → Balanced → Performance → Ultra Performance. The tighter your hardware budget, the closer you lean toward “Performance”; if you are quality-focused and your hardware is strong enough, use “Quality”.

Frame generation (Frame Generation) is a separate matter: it “fills in” extra frames to make motion smoother, but it requires an NVIDIA 40-series or newer GPU and “Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling” turned on in Windows. Recommendations:

• Low / mid-end: turn it on. Use the interpolated frames to push FPS up to a playable threshold.
• High-end: if you can already hold high FPS natively (e.g. 120), we recommend turning it off — frame generation adds a little input latency, and there is no need to sacrifice that for it.
• Use graphics settings to get your raw frame rate up to around 60 before turning on frame generation for the best feel; and if a 40-series card keeps crashing, the official advice is to turn off frame generation first while troubleshooting.

Recommended presets for low / mid / high-end rigs

The following are “starting points” — fine-tune them based on your actual FPS once you are in the game. Option names follow whatever is shown in-game.

Setting	Low-end (smoothness first)	Mid-end (balance quality and FPS)	High-end (quality first)
Overall Graphics Quality preset	Performance / Low	Balanced / Medium	High / Ultra
Render resolution	1080p	1080p–2K	2K–4K
Upscaling (DLSS/FSR/TSR)	On, Performance	On, Balanced / Quality	On, Quality (or off, depending on quality)
View Distance	Minimum	Medium	High
Texture maps	Low	Medium	High
Shadows / post-processing	Low	Medium	High
Traffic / crowd density	Low	Medium	High
Ray Tracing	Off	Off or Low	On (depending on GPU)
Motion blur	Off	To taste	To taste
Frame generation	On	On	Mostly off
Frame Rate Cap	Lock 30 / 60	Lock 60	Lock within screen refresh rate

The key principle: if your FPS is below 60 and you want it smoother, start with “Overall Graphics Quality + View Distance + Upscaling”; if tuning those three is still not enough, then push traffic density and shadows down.

Fixing screen tearing: how to set up VSync

When the image looks like it gets “sliced horizontally” as you swing the camera, that is screen tearing — it usually gets more obvious after you enable upscaling or frame generation. The fix is to sync the game’s output frames with your screen refresh rate:

• Force-enable VSync: the most direct fix. The in-game toggle sometimes does not take effect, so we recommend force-enabling it from the NVIDIA App / Control Panel (or your GPU’s equivalent settings).
• Pair it with a frame rate cap: after turning on frame generation, also lock your “final target frame rate” within the screen refresh rate, to avoid overshooting and causing tearing.
• Low-latency focus: if you really care about input latency and have no tearing, you can also turn off VSync and rely purely on a frame rate cap — the controls feel more responsive during fast-paced combat.
• If you have a G-Sync / FreeSync monitor, enabling variable refresh rate gets you both “no tearing” and “low latency,” which is the more ideal solution.

NVIDIA players can also set the “Low Latency Mode” to “Ultra” in the control panel to push latency down further.

System-level prep to reduce stutter

Beyond settings, your system environment matters just as much — a lot of stutter is not “graphics set too high,” but some other bottleneck:

• Install on an SSD, not an HDD: the official requirements call for an SSD. City scenes stream a huge amount of data, and an HDD will cause severe stutter and texture pop-in.
• Increase virtual memory: if you have 16GB of physical RAM or less and get stutter/crashes, the official advice is to set virtual memory to roughly 1.5 to 2 times your physical RAM.
• Leave enough VRAM headroom: maxed-out VRAM causes “hitching.” Lowering texture maps and resolution can ease it.
• Close background programs: browser tabs, streaming software, and download tools are all competing for memory — close them before you play.
• Update your GPU drivers: new driver versions often optimize for popular new releases (NTE already supports newer DLSS versions).
• Clear cache / restart: a corrupted cache can cause random frame drops; restarting the game or system clears temp files and rules out small issues.
• Watch your cooling: long play sessions that overheat cause thermal throttling, and FPS drops with it — make sure your machine is well-cooled.

Recommendations for different visual priorities

• For the best visuals: high-end rig with ray tracing + 2K/4K + DLSS Quality; only a top-tier GPU should chase Ultra, otherwise FPS drops a lot — and the “Balanced/Smooth” presets actually look about the same.
• For the highest FPS (competitive feel): push graphics low, turn off ray tracing, set upscaling to Performance, and turn off frame generation as needed, driving latency as low as possible.
• Laptop / low-end: Performance preset + View Distance minimum + upscaling Performance + lock 30 or 60 FPS, prioritizing stability over beauty.

Once you have your visuals dialed in, do not forget to first confirm whether your hardware itself meets the bar — see the NTE system requirements rundown, and understand how “specs” and “settings” complement each other so you can squeeze every bit of potential out of your machine. New players who want to get fully up to speed can also check the beginner’s getting-started guide.

Frequently Asked Questions

The optimization principles in this article are compiled from Bahamut players’ hands-on PC graphics settings testing, iwplay’s official notes on performance issues, Geekerwan’s cross-platform performance benchmarks, and several PC optimization guides. The exact in-game menu names and options will change with each version, so please defer to the current in-game version.