Best settings for Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Dragon Age: The Veilguard was released on October 31, 2024, a decade after Dragon Age: Inquisition, and is the direct sequel to the latter. However, before you jump into the new title, there are a few settings that you should chang to get the best experience.

Keep in mind that Dragon Age: The Veilguard's system requirements are not that forgiving. Without the right graphics settings, your system may not achieve a stable 60 FPS in this title.

The article outlines the best settings to use in Dragon Age: The Veilguard to enhance your gaming experience.

Note: This article is subjective and solely reflects the writer's opinions. The settings provided below are based on the game's recommended specs and shouldn't be used resolutions higher than 1920x1080.

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What are the best settings for Dragon Age: The Veilguard?

The default settings for display, graphics, audio, and more are for the general audience. You need to tune them to get the best performance in the game.

Display

Dragon Age: The Veilguard display settings page (Image via Electronic Arts)

The display settings allow you to control the resolution, refresh rate, framerate, and more. Here are all the display settings you should use in Dragon Age: The Veilguard:

• Active Monitor: Primary monitor
• Window Mode: Fullscreen
• Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080
• Refresh Rate: 120Hz
• Frame Rate Limit: 60
• VSync: Off
• Triple Buffering: On
• Brightness: 50%
• Contrast: 50%
• Enable HDR: Off
• HDR Calibration: Off
• Upsample Method: Nvidia DLSS/ AMD FSR
• Upsample Quality: Quality
• DLSS 3/FSR 3 Frame Generation: Off
• NVIDIA Reflex: On + Boost (Only for Nvidia GPUs)
• Anti-Aliasing: Default
• Render Scale: 100%
• Dynamic Resolution Scaling: Off
• Target Frames Per Second: Default
• Minimum Resolution Scale: Default

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Graphics

Dragon Age: The Veilguard graphics settings page (Image via Electronic Arts)

The graphics settings have the biggest impact on performance. We have delicately tuned them to ensure high-quality visuals and admirable performance.

• Graphics preset: Custom
• Texture Quality: Medium
• Texture Filtering: Ultra
• Lighting Quality: High
• Contact Shadows: On
• Ambient Occlusion: HBAO Full
• Screen-Space Reflections: On
• Volumetric Lighting: High
• Sky Quality: Ultra
• Ray-traced Reflections: Off
• Ray-traced Ambient Occlusion: Off
• Ultra Ray Tracing: Off
• Level of Detail: High
• Strand Hair: On
• Terrain Quality: Ultra
• Terrain Decoration: High
• Visual Effects Quality: High
• Depth of Field: Off
• Vignette: Off
• Motion Blur: Off
• Post-Processing Quality: High
• Field of View: 90

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Audio

Dragon Age: The Veilguard audio settings page (Image via Electronic Arts)

Audio settings such as environmental noise, speech, music, and more can have a tremendous impact on gameplay. Here are all the best audio settings:

• Voice Over Language: As per preference
• Text Language: As per preference
• Subtitle Visibility: Always
• Subtitle Size: Small
• Advanced Subtitle Settings: Default
• Mute Sound: Off
• Global Volume: 100%
• Music Volume: 50%
• Speech Volume: 100%
• SFX Volume: 90%
• Ambient Volume: 70%
• Menu Volume: 40%
• Mute While Minimized: Off
• Output Configuration: Stereo
• Sound Preset: Wide Dynamic
• 3D Audio: On
• Mono Sound: Off
• Mono Panning: Default

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Controls

Dragon Age: The Veilguard controls settings page (Image via Electronic Arts)

Mouse or controller sensitivity determines how well combat can feel in the game. Apply the following for the best combat experience:

Input Mapping

• Class Keybindings: Warrior
• Keyboard Mapping: Default
• Customize Keyboard Bindings: Default
• Customize Controller Bindings: Default

Mouse

• Mouse Sensitivity: 3.40
• Mouse Aiming Sensitivity: 78%
• Invert Mouse Y-Axis: Off
• Invert Mouse X-Axis: Off
• Mouse Acceleration: Off
• Mouse Wheel Sensitivity: 100%

Controller

• Invert Y-Axis: Off
• Invert X-Axis: Off
• Vertical Sensitivity: 80%
• Horizontal Sensitivity: 100%
• Aiming Vertical Sensitivity: 70%
• Aiming Horizontal Sensitivity: 90
• Swap Left and Right Sticks: Off
• Look Stick Deadzone: As per preference
• Movement Stick Deadzone: As per preference
• Trigger Deadzone: As per preference
• Global Vibration Intensity: 100%
• Gameplay Vibration Intensity: 100%
• Environmental Vibration Intensity: 80%
• Cinematic Vibration Intensity: 90%

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Interface

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Interface settings page (Image via Electronic Arts)

Here are all the best interface settings for Dragon Age: The Veilguard:

General

• Hide Helmet: Conversations
• Cinematic Aspect Ratio: 16:10

Menus

• Text Language: As per preference
• Text Size: Size 1
• Menu Navigation: Cursor

HUD

• Objective Tracker Visibility: Always
• Mini Map Visibility: On
• Lock Minimap Rotation: Off
• Mini Map Position: Right
• Combat Text: On
• Combat Text Opacity: 60%
• Combat Text Size: Large
• Advanced Combat Text: Off
• Display Health Percentage: On
• Show Player Health: Contextual
• Show Abilities: Contextual

Ability Wheel

• Stick Selection: Default
• Controller Activation Type: Hold
• Keyboard Activation Type: Tap

Tutorials and Hints

• Tutorials: On
• Hints: On

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Accessibility

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Accessibility settings page (Image via Electronic Arts)

Apply the following accessibility settings:

General

• Camera Shake: 90%
• Color Vision Deficiency: Off
• Persistent Dot: Off
• Disable UI Hold Inputs: Hold
• Text Size: Size 1
• Enable Accessibility SFX: On
• Accessibility SFX Volume: 20%
• Enable Glint Ping SFX: Off
• Low Health Screen Effect: On

Subtitles

• Subtitle Visibility: Always
• Subtitles Size: Small
• Advanced Subtitle Settings: Default

Controller Vibration

• Global Vibration Intensity: 100%
• Gameplay Vibration Intensity: 100%
• Environmental Vibration Intensity: 80%
• Cinematic Vibration Intensity: 90%

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This concludes our list of the best settings for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which is properly optimized to provide the best experience.

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