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Revision as of 13:28, 24 May 2020

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Although this product has been released, it remains under active development - information may change frequently and could be outdated or irrelevant.
PUBG: Battlegrounds
PUBG: Battlegrounds cover
Developers
Bluehole
PUBG Corporation
Publishers
PUBG Corporation
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows December 20, 2017
Reception
Metacritic 86
OpenCritic 77
IGDB 75
Taxonomy
Microtransactions Cosmetic, Currency, Loot box, Player trading
PUBG: Battlegrounds on HowLongToBeat
PUBG: Battlegrounds on IGDB
PUBG: Battlegrounds on MobyGames
PUBG: Battlegrounds on Wikipedia
PUBG
PUBG: Battlegrounds 2017
PUBG Lite 2019

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

All versions require Steam DRM.
The game uses Themida and XIGNCODE anti-debuggers[1][2]

Version differences

PUBG Mobile can be played on Windows using the Game Buddy, an Android OS emulator that specifically targets the game and, in fact was actually made by the same developer who created the mobile edition of the game, Tencent Games. Some prefer the mobile version over the original PC version due to being free to play and far less demanding.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\TslGame\Content\Movies\
  2. Delete or rename LicenseScreen.mp4 , LoadingScreen_Xbox.mp4 , LoadingScreen.mp4 , season_autoplay_film.mp4 and SurvivorPassLoadingMovie.mp4

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\TslGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/578080/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/578080/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
See Multi-monitor.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
FOV slider for 1st person view.[4]
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA and TAA
Vertical sync (Vsync)
[4]
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 1000 FPS. See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Set bUseHDRDisplayOutput=False to True in the GameUserSettings.ini file in the WindowsNoEditor folder
Color blind mode
[4]
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Multi-monitor

This is a safe .ini edit to make and will not result in a ban. Clarified by RoboDanjal on Discord (PUBG Dev): The statement is that any changes that provide an unfair advantage are not allowed.
Set resolution manually[5]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open GameUserSettings.ini.
  3. Change ResolutionSizeX= and ResolutionSizeY= to the desired multi-monitor resolution.
  4. Run the game in windowed mode only.

High frame rate

Change FPS cap[6]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open GameUserSettings.ini.
  3. Change InGameFrameRateLimitType=Unlimited to InGameFrameRateLimitType=Customizable and change the fps limitter InGameCustomFrameRateLimit=60.000000 to your liking (e.g. InGameCustomFrameRateLimit=144.000000).

Input

Haptic feedback

Disable controller force feedback[7]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open GameUserSettings.ini.
  3. Find the string bUseForceFeedback= and change it to bUseForceFeedback=False.
  4. Save and close the config file.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Surround sound output causes issues with directional hearing. Disable virtual surround sound when using headphones.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
HRTF in Audio options (unknown plugin).[8]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Korean
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Thai
Turkish
Vietnamese

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
100

Issues fixed

Sub-par performance with Nvidia graphics cards

Force on optimal settings in Nvidia Control Panel
  1. In Nvidia Control Panel, go to Manage 3D settings and open the Program Settings tab.
  2. If not already available, create a profile for the PUBG executable.
  3. For the PUBG profile, change Threaded Optimization from Auto to On.
  4. Change Preferred refresh rate from Application-controlled to Highest available.
  5. Change Power management mode from Optimal power to Prefer maximum performance.
  6. Change Texture filtering - Quality from Quality to High performance.
In the Nvidia Control Panel go to Configure Surround, PhysX
  1. Change PhysX settings from Auto-select to your GPU Geforce "GTX" or "RTX" (depending on your GPU).

Stuttering and low FPS

Disable "Control Flow Guard" in Windows Defender for PUBG[9]

Use this instruction and choose PUBG executable. Don't turn off CFG globally - it's a major security risk.

Disable "Client Replay" and "Kill Cam" PUBG

Launch PUBG, go to "Settings" -> "Gameplay" -> and disable both "Replay" (see information to the right that it can affect client performance) and "Death Cam".

Downside for disabling "Replay" is none of your previous games will be stored on your PC for playing back but it won't take up additional space on your drive and for lower end PC's it will not affect performance anymore once disabled.

Downside for disabling "Death Cam" is you won't get the kill cam perspective of the enemy that killed you at the end of the game, instead you can can only spectate the enemy player or quit back to lobby.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Interface Coherent UI [10]
Anti-cheat BattlEye [11]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) AMD FX 6300
Intel Core i5 4340
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon R7 370
Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit system is required.

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/578080/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (578080) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References