Hogwarts Legacy – Best Video Settings (Full Screen Fix, Frame Drop Fix, Best Visual Fidelity, Low-Med Input Lag)

Here’s a list of all optimizations I’ve found.

Guide to Video Settings

All credit goes to g . a . m . e!

Disable Fullscreen Optimizations

Go to SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Hogwarts Legacy, right click .exe, properties, compatibility, disable full screen optimizations, save.

Force Fullscreen Mode

Paste %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hogwarts Legacy\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\ in windows explorer and open GameUserSettings.ini, then replace this:

FullscreenMode=1
LastConfirmedFullscreenMode=1

With this:

FullscreenMode=0
LastConfirmedFullscreenMode=0
PreferredFullscreenMode=0

And save.

Best Display & Video Settings

• Window mode: Fullscreen
• Select monitor: Your primary monitor
• Resolution: 1920×1080
• Rendering Resolution: 100%
• Upscale Type: None
• Anti Aliasing Mode: DLAA
• Nvidia Low Reflex Latency: Off
• Vsync: Off
• Framerate: Uncapped
• HDR: Off
• Field of View: As per preference
• Motion Blur: Off
• Depth of Field: On
• Chromatic Aberration: On
• Film Grain: On

Graphics Options

• Global Quality Preset: Custom
• Effects Quality: Ultra
• Material Quality: Ultra
• Fog Quality: Ultra
• Sky Quality: Ultra
• Foliage Quality: Medium
• Post Process Quality: Ultra
• Shadow Quality: Medium
• Texture Quality: Ultra
• View Distance Quality: Medium
• Population Quality: Medium
• Ray Tracing Reflections: Off
• Ray Tracing Shadows: Off
• Ray Tracing Ambient Occlusion: Off

Play around with replacing DLAA with DLSS according you your rig. I’m playing on a 6gig 2060m and it’s still visually appealing and at the limit of the input delay comfort range.

By doing step 2 alone, you can actually see that the game starts in full-screen mode and takes priority of the primary display.

Full-screen will be displayed as “” in display settings, as the game does not currently support it, probably because of DX12 compatibility issues.