Transport Fever 3 Performance Settings: Best Values for Higher FPS

Transport Fever 3 ships a compact graphics menu — a dozen rows, with no upscaling toggle hiding anywhere else. This page turns a launch-week video walkthrough into a written, screenshot-by-screenshot pass over every option it touches, so you can set the same values without scrubbing through footage. If the machine itself is still the open question, settle the AVX2 and SSD gates in our system requirements breakdown before tuning anything.

What the settings menu actually contains

Open the gear icon in the top-right corner of the main menu and the Settings screen splits into tabs: Interface, Mouse, Keyboard, Controller, Graphics, Audio, Advanced. Everything this walkthrough changes sits on the Graphics tab, inside two blocks — Window Settings (Display Mode, Resolution, Resolution Scale, V-sync) and Graphics Settings (Presets, Textures, Terrain Textures, Anti-Aliasing, Ambient Occlusion, Reflections, Geometry, Shadows, Terrain, Grass).

There is no DLSS switch to hunt for. The Resolution Scale slider is the game’s upscaling control, and its own help text names AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution as the upscaler it uses. That matters for how you read the profile below: the author raises the slider to 100% for image quality, which means the same slider is your most direct route back to frames if you need them.

The recommended values at a glance

Map size multiplies every one of those costs, so the map sizes comparison is worth reading alongside this page: a bigger world charges you twice, once in simulation and once in rendering.

Every setting, step by step

1. 1

   Set Display Mode to Fullscreen

   The recorded menu runs Borderless, but the author recommends Fullscreen: the help panel explains that fullscreen uses the entire screen while borderless lets the mouse leave the window.

   

2. 2

   Turn V-sync off

   V-sync is switched to Off here. The author warns it can switch itself back on, so the row is worth re-checking after an update.

   

3. 3

   Raise Resolution Scale to 100%

   The slider starts at 75% and the author pushes it to 100% for a sharper picture. Its help text says upscaling is handled by AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, so this is also the fastest lever back to more frames.

   

4. 4

   Set Textures to Very High

   Texture quality goes to the top of the list. Its help text notes that better quality means more detailed objects but requires more performance.

   

5. 5

   Set Terrain Textures to High

   Terrain textures stop one notch below maximum, at High, and stay there for the rest of the walkthrough.

   

6. 6

   Set Anti-Aliasing to 8x

   Anti-aliasing is raised to 8x. The help text warns that higher values smooth jagged diagonal lines and curves at a performance cost.

   

7. 7

   Turn Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) on

   SSAO is enabled here. The help panel describes it as more natural shadows that require more rendering performance.

   

8. 8

   Set Reflections (SSR) to Medium

   Screen-space reflections sit in the middle of their range rather than at maximum.

   

9. 9

   Set Geometry to Medium

   Geometry detail also stops at Medium, trading object detail for rendering time.

   

10. 10

    Drop Shadows to Low

    Shadows are the one quality row the walkthrough pushes all the way down to Low.

    

11. 11

    Set Terrain to High

    Terrain detail returns to High while the Shadows row above it stays at Low.

    

12. 12

    Set Grass to High

    Grass quality finishes the list at High, the last row of the Graphics Settings block before the Reset to Default button.

    

Which rows to roll back first

If frames are still short after the profile above, the video’s own choices hint at where the cost sits. Shadows is the one row the author drops to its lowest value, so it is the first candidate to lower further. Reflections and Geometry were deliberately capped at Medium instead of left at maximum, and the help text for anti-aliasing, ambient occlusion, terrain and grass all warn that higher values require more rendering performance — those are the rows to step down next.

Resolution Scale is the other big lever. The author picks 100% for sharpness, so moving back below 100% is the most direct way to buy frames back, and that is exactly what the FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling path is for. On smaller hardware, the beginner tips recommend smaller maps and fewer vehicles, and the Transport Fever 3 calculator can help you size a fleet that will not outrun your frame rate.

Source

The screenshots on this page are frames from Transport Fever 3 Best Graphics Settings 2026 | Max FPS & Best Visuals by Fuzzi Official ツ, used to illustrate our own written instructions. Every step links back to the exact second its frame was taken from. The frames were cropped to the settings panel to remove the recorder’s on-screen performance counter; no other editing was applied. All text on this page is original.

Related guides

• Transport Fever 3 system requirements — confirm the AVX2 and SSD gates before you tune settings.
• Transport Fever 3 beginner tips — line design and fleet sizing that keep the simulation load down.
• Map sizes compared — how world size changes what your hardware has to draw.
• Transport Fever 3 calculator — size trains, wagons and lines without overbuilding.