Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has arrived on PC, with players facing huge waves of Tyranid foes in levels that stress even high-end CPU and GPU hardware to their limits. This title is often CPU-limited, especially in levels where you’re engulfing ripper swarms with flamers, but judicious settings choices can still claw back some extra performance.
One of the most impactful settings is SSR quality, which can be set to off, default or high. Our testing shows around a 10 percent performance advantage from using the default setting rather than high, as measured on an RTX 4060 using DLSS native. This does produce noticeably lower-res reflections, but the extra performance is hard to pass up.
More of a free win is the volumetrics setting, which can be set to medium rather than high for a one percent performance advantage with little visible difference. It’s a similar story with the detail setting, which can be set to medium rather than ultra for another one percent performance uplift. Default SSAO is also worth considering versus the high setting, which does result in lighter screen-space ambient occlusion and some extra aliasing, but frame-rates climb by around three percent.
