Deadlock Best Settings For MAX FPS & Low Input Lag - 2026

Your frames are fluctuating and the game feels sluggish, which makes it impossible to land shots or react quickly in competitive play. You need to strip away the unnecessary visual processing that is choking your GPU and clean up how your drivers handle frame delivery.

Why this works

Most default settings prioritize visual fidelity over performance, forcing your GPU to render high-quality lighting and shadows that you don't need in a competitive shooter. These tweaks offload that work and force your hardware to prioritize frame delivery over appearance.

What you will need

You will need an NVIDIA graphics card and access to your desktop's NVIDIA Control Panel to complete the driver-level optimizations.

Steps

1. 01
   Open Deadlock settings, navigate to the Video tab, and set your resolution to native with your monitor's maximum refresh rate in Fullscreen mode.
2. 02
   Enable Advanced Settings, then set Upscaling to 'Stretch' and Render Quality to 67 percent.
3. 03
   Set Anti-aliasing to 'FXAA' and ensure Screen Space AO, Distance Field Shadows, Fog, Bloom, Area Lights, Depth of Field, and VSync are all 'Off'.
4. 04
   Set Shadow and Texture quality to 'Low', and cap your in-game and dashboard frame rates to your monitor's refresh rate.
5. 05
   Right-click your desktop, open the NVIDIA Control Panel, and select 'Manage 3D settings'.
6. 06
   Under 'Low Latency Mode', select 'On'.
7. 07
   Set 'Power management mode' to 'Prefer maximum performance' and 'Texture filtering quality' to 'High performance'.
8. 08
   Set 'Shader cache size' to 'Unlimited' and 'Threaded optimization' to 'Off'.
9. 09
   Ensure 'Vertical sync' is 'Off', 'Preferred refresh rate' is 'Highest available', and click 'Apply'.