I benchmarked every setting in 0.12 in an Optimization Guide

Can we get a TLDR of this por favor?

Do you have any evidence to show changing the graphics setting in Windows does anything? I feel like these options are so often a placebo which either do nothing or actually decrease performance. For example, in your nvidia optimisation guide (I knew I'd find it because everyone recommends it), changing the power mode to "max performance" will at most do nothing or just throw more watts at the GPU, which ironically only increases the temps which decreases core clock. The GPU knows how to schedule itself, it isn't hiding performance for no reason, so changing that setting is counter productive.

I'm not sure that the settings in the compatibility tab for the games executable do anything either. It seems to be just hearsay that gamers assume to be true because everyone else does it.

Couple thoughts on this:

Lastly, I did a couple benchmarks when I was upgrading from a 3700X to a 5900X and noticed that the improvements in offline mode were rather small compared to actually playing the game online.

The network/overhead when playing online is immense so while it's great that your guide does offline comparisons, a lot of players will run into a CPU bottleneck playing online while having a GPU bottleneck playing offline.

Correct me if I'm wrong but you would have to basically test each setting twice, once with a CPU bottle neck at say 480p or so and once with a GPU bottle neck at 1440p like you did.

Over 10 years ago reducing settings on games could sometimes make them worse as graphical loads were sent to the CPU instead, is there anyway to get Tarkov to use the GPU more? Mine sits at about 40-50% in Tarkov but 90-100% in pubg for example.

It would be a great guide if the testing was done properly. Because this is hardly optimization, although windows tips were great (no disinformation unlike lots of other videos). Imo, the correct way to test performance with cpu strain is applied is to load as a scav for each setting, meaning: scav in and stand still -> record fps -> alt+f4 -> change the setting -> reload into the raid. That way you can see more or less consistently how settings affect performance while being in online raid, since scavs load later into the raid and see what frames you are realistically getting in-game. There is more or less not much going on on the server which makes it even more consistent in terms of performance. I was too lazy to test every settings, but some settings like textures or shadows or mip streaming didn't change my frames what so ever. Lod distance on the other hand has a significant performance impact when you're playing online, so unless you absolutely need it for sniping, I would always keep it at 400.

9700 + 2080 @ fhd, which proves once again, that pretty much everyone in tarkov is cpu bottlenecked + poor thread usage doesn't help while playing online. That's why you see majority of people with more or less modern pc's are having same frames and that's why certain cpu's like ryzens struggle with tarkov. So most helpful points in your guide could actually be windows part, because that can actually help with lowering cpu usage while playing. For example when I load my obs with bunch of scenes, even without streaming it shows about 3-6% cpu load and that load alone would cause about 5-10 fps drop while testing. Basically if you want better performance for tarkov make sure to close everything you possibly can + overclocking should definitely help.

Keep in mind that only certain post FX settings impact your framerate. Simple brightness and vibrance tweaks have zero impact while stuff like adaptive sharpening and clarity will severely hinder performance.

We have these videos every single wipe and after two weeks some man with a phd in unity game design shows up to explain that virtually all aspects of those videos are clickbaity garbage and all performance increases are anecdotal at best from a restart of the client. Let's just skip the shitflinging for like one wipe, please.

There absolutely isn't some toggle in the options, some nvidia control panel change, or some bios adjustment that you can make that suddenly make tarkov run perfectly. This is the grim terrible truth that nobody likes to hear. At the end of the day we just have to wait.

2022 optimization guide

Didn't realize patches were like cars

Imagine calling it 60 -> 144FPS when its more like 35 -> 93 FPS and then you do your first online run and it becomes 35 -> 60 FPS.

I'm just commenting for a TL;DW