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Use these settings when playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard with an RX 6600 XT or RX 6650 XT for the best experience.
Dragon Age: Veilguard uses EA’s proprietary Frostbite engine, which tends to favor AMD hardware. The engine usually performs well, but in Veilguard, it demands more, especially during combat and in NPC-heavy zones. The RX 6600 XT and 6650 XT are capable RDNA 2 mid-range cards. They still deliver good performance at 1080p and can be pushed to 1440p gaming upscaling. Below are the settings you should look forward to while playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
Note—AMD cards have significantly lower driver overhead than others; there is a recommendation for almost all modern CPUs you could possibly pair with for a seamless experience.
Best Settings for RX 6600 XT and 6650 XT in Dragon Age: The Veilguard (1080p and 1440p Optimized)
A few keynotes to consider:
- FPS drops are common after extended play sessions; restarting the game resolves this issue.
- Both cards come with 8GB of VRAM, which limits texture quality settings. For consistent performance, use medium textures.
- Enable Smart Access Memory (SAM) for significant performance gains.
- Terrain Decoration on Medium or Low helps prevent stuttering, especially in dense forest areas.
- CPU bottlenecks are common in this title; older CPUs will benefit from FSR to reduce CPU load.
- The Arlathan Forest and Treviso areas cause significant FPS drops even on high-end hardware.
- You can enable ray tracing, but it’s best to use it selectively—full RT heavily strains performance due to RDNA 2’s architectural limitations.
- Consider lowering Shadows and Volumetric Lighting in performance-intensive areas.
- The game only officially supports FSR 2.2, which is backdated.
- Use the OptiScaler mod alongside the FSR 3.1.2 mod from Nexus Mods for best results.
- The mention of frame generation over here comes from the mods themselves.
- RX 6600 users can also refer to these settings, with minor tuning here and there.
RX 6600 XT and 6650 XT with Standard CPUs
Applicable for Intel 9th gen and older, AMD Ryzen 3000 and older
| Setting | RX 6600 XT | RX 6650 XT |
| Resolution | 1080p | 1080p |
| Display Mode | Fullscreen | Fullscreen |
| Frame Rate Limit | 60 | 60 |
| V-Sync | Off | Off |
| Triple Buffering | Off | Off |
| Upscaling | AMD FSR 2 | AMD FSR 2 |
| Upsample Quality | Balanced | Quality/Balanced |
| FSR Frame Generation | Off | Off |
| Anti-Aliasing | FSR | FSR |
| Texture Quality | Medium | Medium |
| Texture Filtering | High | High |
| Lighting Quality | Medium | Medium |
| Contact Shadow | On | On |
| Ambient Occlusion | HBAO Full | HBAO Full |
| Screen Space Reflections | On | On |
| Volumetric Lighting | Medium | Medium |
| Sky Quality | High | High |
| Ray Traced Reflections | Off | Off |
| Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion | Off | Off |
| Level of Detail | Medium | Medium |
| Strand Hair | On | On |
| Terrain Quality | Medium | Medium |
| Terrain Decoration Quality | Low | Low |
| Visual Effect Quality | Medium | Medium |
| Post Processing Quality | Medium | High |
RX 6600 XT and 6650 XT with High-Performance CPUs
Applicable for Intel 10th gen and newer, AMD Ryzen 5000 and newer
| Setting | RX 6600 XT | RX 6650 XT |
| Resolution | 1080p | 1080p/1440p with FSR |
| Display Mode | Fullscreen | Fullscreen |
| Frame Rate Limit | Uncapped/60 | Uncapped/60 |
| V-Sync | Off | Off |
| Triple Buffering | Off | Off |
| Upscaling | AMD FSR 2 | AMD FSR 2 |
| Upsample Quality | Balanced | Quality (1080p)/Balanced (1440p) |
| FSR Frame Generation | Off/On with newer CPUs | On with newer CPUs |
| Anti-Aliasing | FSR | FSR |
| Texture Quality | Medium | High |
| Texture Filtering | High | Ultra |
| Lighting Quality | High | High |
| Contact Shadow | On | On |
| Ambient Occlusion | HBAO Full | HBAO Full |
| Screen Space Reflections | On | On |
| Volumetric Lighting | Medium | High |
| Sky Quality | High | Ultra |
| Ray Traced Reflections | Off | Selective |
| Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion | Off | Off |
| Level of Detail | High | High |
| Strand Hair | On | On |
| Terrain Quality | High | High |
| Terrain Decoration Quality | Medium | Medium |
| Visual Effect Quality | High | High |
| Post Processing Quality | High | High |
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