XCOM: Chimera Squad PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide

Optimising XCOM: Chimera Squad – How to get more performance from your PC

The easiest way to gain performance in XCOM: Chimera Squad is to lower the game’s graphical presets. This can yield great results but come at the cost of some major graphical downgrades, especially with regards to texture filtering and overall texture detail. 

While High retains most of the quality of the game’s maximum settings, it comes with a minimal performance uplift. Lovering the game to Medium settings or lower is what truly delivers a significant performance leap, giving us an average framerate of almost 60FPS at 4K. Not bad for an AMD RX 5700.

Our advice is to set XCOM: Chimera Squad’s Anisotropic Filtering to 16x and Textures to the highest level that your graphics card can support. These features will come with a minimal performance cost to result in major graphical changes. 
  

  
What are the best settings to tweak? 

The settings which have the largest impact on XCOM: Chimera Squad are Ambient Occlusion, Shadows and Depth of Field. For the largest single setting framerate impact, our advice is to lower Ambient Occlusion to Tiled AO or Off, which will deliver huge increases to your minimum and average framerates. 

Depth Of Field also has a huge impact on XCOM’s performance, and Bokeh Depth of Field can be computationally intensive. This feature has a stronger impact on minimum framerate than average framerate, and setting this option to simple has a similar impact as turning it off entirely. Our advice is to turn Depth of Field to Simple if you want to decrease the variability of your framerates (assuming you are GPU-limited).