Apex Legends Best Settings and Options Guide (2024)

Introduction

Apex Legends is a game that seemed to come out of thin air completely, and the developer have struck gold with this game. With high and steady player counts that reach(ed) all-time highs even years after release, it’s clear as day that Apex Legends is one and the most popular Battle Royale games in the world, and the best part is that everyone can join in on the fun since the game is free to play. This also means that there is going to be tons of competition if you want to become the best though, so you’ll want to make sure to use the best Apex Legends settings.

In this article we’ll be going over the settings and gear that the Apex professionals are using, supplying you with averages and interesting statistics throughout. Getting the right settings will increase the performance of your game, and with that your own performance will also increase, so this article should be useful for new players and veterans alike.

Best Apex Legends Video Settings

Best Resolution for Apex Legends

When it comes to resolution, pros think the same as they do with refresh rates: more frames = better. That’s why the majority of professionals are playing at the standard 1080p resolution.

Lowering the resolution is always an option if you’re struggling to get frames, but going too low can obviously cause the game to look very grainy, so we do recommend 1920×1080 for most gamers.

Best Mouse Settings for Apex Legends

If you want to become a consistent and reliable aimer, getting a good gaming mouse is only half the battle. You’ll want to make sure that you’re using it correctly, otherwise it’ll be like casting pearls before swine.

It’s an often repeated myth that a higher sensitivity equals better aim, but that is not the case at all if you look at our data. In fact it’s quite the opposite. The averageoverall sensitivity of professional gamers is way lower than what most newer or casual gamers would expect. A lower overall sensitivity is simply way better for precision and making tiny micro adjustments when aiming, which is why the vast majority of professional gamers are using large gaming mousepads. Regular pads simply cannot support the large sweeping motions that you have to make when playing at lower sensitivities.

In order to compare the true sensitivity of players who are using different hardware settings, we use eDPI. This is simply your mouse DPI multiplied by your ingame sens. Note that this isn’t universal: different games use different sensitivity parameters, so you can’t directly compare the eDPI of an Apex player with the eDPI of a Fortnite player, for example. eDPI is a great way to compare within one game though, and if you find that your eDPI is a whole lot higher than what most professionals are using, we strongly encourage you to consider lowering yours as well. It’ll take some time to get used to the lower sens, but it will be absolutely worth it.

In case you’re interested, you can also read our article on how to find the best sensitivity for you.

Fun Facts

Best Mouse DPI and eDPI for Apex Legends

Peripheral companies like to boast about their mice being able to reach absurdly highDPIcounts, but the reality is that that’s mostly for marketing purposes. As you can see in our data, the vast majority of professionals are on 800 DPI. A low percentage of professionals use a DPI that’s higher than 1600, and none at all have their DPI set to something higher than 2500. That should tell you all you need to know about absurdly high DPI counts.

Best ADS Mouse Sensitivity Multiplier for Apex Legends

The ADS (Aim Down Sights) sensitivity in Apex Legends is a bit of an odd one. A lot of people note that aiming down sights somehow feels ‘off’ in this game, and that’s because setting the ADS sensitivity to 1 in the game doesn’t mean that your ADS sensitivity matches your hipfire sensitivity 1:1.

In other words; aiming down the sights of your gun means that your aim is slowed down a bit if you’ve set the ADS sensitivity to 1. To further complicate the issue, there’s a variety of different scopes with different zoom levels in the game as well. Respawn has added the option to use per optic ADS sensitivities (this wasn’t an option when the game first released) but a lot of pros tend to use the one ADS sensitivity.

Most pros opt to leave their ADS sensitivity at 1. If you want to experiment with different scope settings, it can also be useful to know that the ‘1:1’ settings for the different scopes depend on things such as your FOV. There are various scope calculators out there that’ll help you achieve 1:1 settings for the different zoom levels, but things can get very complicated this way.

Best Refresh Rate for Apex Legends

We’ve been saying it for a while now, but if you ask us (and the overwhelming majority of professionals that we analyze) 144frames per secondis the absolute minimum standard for competitive gaming refresh rates, with 240Hz being the standard at this point in time.

Entry-level 144Hz monitors are getting cheaper and cheaper, and something like theBenQ Zowie XL2411is an ideal esports monitor for people on a tighter budget. Do be wary that in order to get the best out of a higher refresh rate monitor you’ll want to make sure that your PC can handle pushing the required amount of frames. There’s no need to have a state of the art 360Hz gaming monitor if your PC is only pushing 40 frames per second to said monitor.

Regardless; professional gamers are always out to get the most fluid experience possible, which is why almost every professional (in every game) that we’ve analyzed is using a monitor that’s capable of pushing at least 144 frames per secondanda system with a dedicated graphics card that push enough frames to said monitor.

Getting a high framerate is pretty much essential if you’re looking to play games at the competitive level, not only because you’ll want to be running a 144Hz (or higher) monitor to get that smooth image but also because of the fact that higher framerates give less input latency. Someone who’s gaming at 60 frames per second will experience end to end latencies between 55 and 75 milliseconds while someone who’s gaming on a rig that’s pushing 240 frames per second has a latency between 20-35 milliseconds (regardless of what kind of display you’re hooked up to).

NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency Technology

As we’ve explained already, lowering the overall system latency of your setup is one of the primary goals when you’re playing at a competitive level. For that reason, NVIDIA has their Reflex Low Latency platform, and given the fact that their GPUs are used by almost all professional players we thought it would be a good idea to add a small section to this guide on the tech.

The Low Latency Mode (which is available for all 900 series and newer cards) reduces the overall system latency between the user and the game. It’s something that developers actively have to put into their game so it’s not available for all games out there (clickherefor a list) but Apex: Legends is one of those games, meaning that this tech can drastically (depending on your setup) reduce your system latency by forcing the GPU and CPU to sync up in a more efficient way.

The second part of the Reflex platform is the Latency Analyzer. This allows you to measure your system latency (as long as you’ve gotcompatible gear) and can be really handy to determine if there are any bottlenecks somewhere in your setup.

This is of course all explained in nutshell, so if you want to read more about Reflex you can check outNVIDIA’s articleor read ourown article.

Apex Legends Best Settings and Options – Conclusion

Apex Legends isn’t the most demanding game out there, but once the game gets going and the fights start showing up on screen it can get deceptively difficult to run. As with any competitive game, you will want to make sure that you’re not being held back by your gear and you’ll want to get as many frames per second as possible if you’re truly looking to be competitive.

We hope that this guide has helped you get a baseline for your own ingame settings or that it has been helpful to you in some other way.

If you have any questions or remarks, please feel free to reach out to us!