WARDOGS Settings and Performance Checklist

Start with the full target, not just the GPU

Steam’s minimum target is 1080p Low at 60 FPS upscaled. Its recommended targets are 1440p Medium at 70+ FPS native or 4K Medium at 60+ FPS upscaled. These are publisher targets attached to full hardware tiers, not our benchmark results.

See system requirements for CPU, RAM, OS and GPU together. A laptop part with a similar name is not automatically equivalent.

A repeatable comparison

1. Record the game build, driver version, resolution, preset, upscaling and Frame Generation state.
2. Keep the same test conditions as closely as normal gameplay allows.
3. Change one setting, then compare visible smoothness, input feel and stability.
4. Revert changes that do not help.
5. Record whether the problem is low average performance, hitching or an actual crash.

Do not compare a quiet menu with a populated battle and call the difference a setting gain. This procedure is editorial advice, not a claim that we benchmarked the game.

What Season 1 actually changes

The official notes allow DLSS Frame Generation to be turned off without restarting and make the render-target pool configurable. They describe reduced shadow-cache refreshes and fixes for two frame-generation crash paths. Patch 0.11 announces additional GPU crash fixes.

Those notes do not supply a recommended pool value, a measured FPS percentage, or a hardware-independent optimal preset. Avoid copying arbitrary launch flags or configuration-file values.

If the issue is a crash

Use the separate crash checklist. A crash is not solved merely by chasing a higher FPS number. Capture the exact error and whether a specific setting reliably changes the outcome.

What changed

This is now a live-build testing workflow with actual patch context, rather than a speculative pre-release optimization page. No benchmark claims, sensitivity values or unsupported performance promises are added.