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Epic Games has announced that it will be offering a new performance mode for its popular Battle Royale game. Fortnite PC performance mode arrives today in alpha form as an option within the graphics settings menu (along with the switches for DX11 and DX12). Depending on your hardware, you can realistically expect your gaming frame rate to more than double, based on developer-tested low-end laptop samples. An added bonus is that playing in performance mode will allow you to trim your game storage by 14GB.
In the main screenshot above, you can see that Performance Mode can be easily toggled in the graphics settings menus in Fortnite on PC. If you’re using a lower spec PC to play Fortnite, Epic will start getting a message to test your mode for an FPS boost. However, remember that this feature is currently in the ‘Alpha’ state, so you could run into some issues. Note that performance mode only works in Battle Royale and Creative modes, for now.
Epic tested the new mode on multiple systems to illustrate the performance benefits available to switches. On an Intel Core i5-8265U laptop with UHD Graphics 620 and 8GB of RAM, Epic saw a performance increase from 24fps to 61fps on average. This is with the game running the existing low scalability mode in a standard squad match, compared to the same match running in performance mode using 720p during both races. Another example from Epic was that of an AMD A10 APU laptop that benefited from a performance boost from 18fps to 45fps.
Along with this new PC performance mode, there are new installation options in the Epic launcher. If you’re playing in performance mode, you don’t need HD textures, so you can disable them in the install options to save more than 14GB. This can reduce the total installation of the game to approximately 17 GB.
