What are the best settings for RoboCop: Rogue City? Old Detroit has never looked as striking as it does in RoboCop: Rogue City, with the same token extending to the titular cyborg lawman. Yet, its streets paved with gritty, ultra-violent combat can push even the most futuristic of gaming PCs.
The RoboCop: Rogue City system requirements are more-or-less par for the course, and you won’t need the best graphics card to get the game running. However, our testing shows that you’ll need relatively modern hardware to hit a stable 60fps while keeping the game looking good.
Here are the best settings for RoboCop: Rogue City on PC:
Best video settings for RoboCop: Rogue City
- Field of view – 80
- VSync – Off
- Upscaling – Nvidia DLSS or AMD FSR 2.2
- Nvidia DLSS Super Resolution – Balanced
- AMD FSR 2.2 – Balanced
- Nvidia sharpness – 0.34
- Graphics – Custom
- View distance – Far
- Post processing – Epic
- Shadows – Medium
- Textures – Epic
- Effects – High
- Chromatic aberration – On
- Motion blur – On
- Framerate – Unlimited
- High quality lumen reflections – On
RoboCop: Rogue City has four graphics presets — Low, Medium, High, and Epic — if you can’t be bothered to tweak individual settings. We got around 82fps on average with Low, 71fps with Medium, 64 with High, and 59 with Epic.
Medium or High are the best balance between performance and aesthetics from our testing. Low looks very flat, with very little in the way of shadows or reflections, whereas Epic takes us below the hallowed 60fps barrier with little appreciable improvement looks-wise.
However, we played through the opening 20 minutes of RoboCop: Rogue City with the above settings, and got an average of 70fps without DLSS upscaling. That’s only one frame less than the Medium preset, despite most settings being on High or Epic. These are the best settings if you want steady frames while keeping the gameplay looking great.
Upscaling
If you’ve got an Nvidia graphics card, you’ll want to enable DLSS upscaling. In our view, Balanced is always a sensible choice for Super Resolution, and the same holds true here. Those of you with AMD or Intel cards should test out both AMD FSR and Intel XeSS to see which boosts frame rate the most.
Shadows
We recommend turning Shadows down to Medium for best results. While this makes the game look less realistic, it’s well worth it for the substantial gains to fps, and the difference isn’t too noticeable.
Effects
This is the big one. Turning Effects down to Low will see a dramatic increase in fps, but will also make your game look very flat. Our best settings have Effects at High, since it makes the game look so much better. But if your fps is struggling, turning this down will make the biggest difference out of all these settings.
Anti-aliasing
Unusually, anti-aliasing doesn’t have much of an impact, either on frame rate or looks. Even so, we recommend having it on Epic since it makes the game look slightly better while barely compromising fps.
Motion blur
This one comes down to personal preference. We prefer it enabled in RoboCop: Rogue City, as it doesn’t seem to impact performance at all and makes rapid turns in the grimy city streets feel a little smoother. But if you’re not a motion blur fan, just disable it.
Best gameplay settings for RoboCop: Rogue City
There aren’t many gameplay settings to tweak in RoboCop: Rogue City, but here are some worth adjusting:
- Hud preset – Custom
- Objective markers – Limited
- Combat hud – Limited
- Health bar visibility – 50
- Weapons bar visibility – 50
- Running – Hold
The first five of these settings are just aimed at clearing up the hud somewhat, as it can be slightly overwhelming if you have everything on and set to max.
Reducing objective markers and combat hud to limited, and health and weapons bar visibility to 50, makes RoboCop: Rogue City feel more cinematic, without compromising your combat effectiveness. Ideal.
The last setting can be found under ‘controls’ and then ‘mouse and keyboard’. The default for sprinting is to toggle it using the Shift key. If like me, you’re used to holding to sprint, this will feel a lot more intuitive.
How we test RoboCop: Rogue City
At PCGamesN, we use specific gaming rigs to test out the best settings for performance and gameplay in the latest releases. Currently, our test rigs include the following components: Intel Core i7 11700F, MSI Ventus Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, 32GB of DDR4 3,200MHz RAM, and an MSI B560 motherboard. We also test using Widows 11 64-bit.
We use the same rigs to ensure that every game we test is done under fair conditions, but will occasionally upgrade these rigs to ensure they don’t fall behind the market. This allows us to aim for the highest quality possible in every game we test. RoboCop: Rogue City was tested in 1440p on an HDD, so you can expect better results than this in 1080p and on an SSD.
Can RoboCop: Rogue City
run on an HDD?
Yes, RoboCop: Rogue City runs fine on an HDD. While we don’t doubt an SSD will help with loading times, these results were all measured using a mechanical hard drive.
So it’s fair to say you don’t need to rock one of the best SSDs for gaming, but an upgrade definitely won’t hurt if you’re still using an HDD. I’d buy that for a dollar!
How to monitor performance in RoboCop: Rogue City
If you want to keep an eye on performance in RoboCop: Rogue City, which doesn’t have in-built benchmarking, there’s an easy method that works whether you’re using an Nvidia or AMD graphics card.
For Nvidia cards, ensure you have GeForce Experience installed and the in-game overlay enabled, and then simply hit ALT + R in-game to bring up your performance monitor.
With AMD cards, you can enable performance monitoring via the Radeon overlay using the shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + O.
If you’re looking to run this crime-solving caper on Valve’s portable handheld, these best settings probably won’t be all that useful. Luckily, our RoboCop: Rogue City Steam Deck guide has you covered, so don’t forget to check it out.
Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.