PUBG - Best Settings And Options Guide (2023)

All pro players that we've analyzed use a monitor that's capable of pushing over 60 frames per second.

PUBG used to be locked to a maximum refresh rate of 144 frames per second, which is probably why we see a comparatively high amount of PUBG professionals who are still using a 144Hz display. Over the past couple of months we've seen the standard shift to 240Hz though, which is the case for all of our analyzed games.

Getting a higher refresh rate monitor makes the action on the screen much more fluid which can improve your ingame performance, which is why we always recommend to get a high refresh rate monitor if your budget allows it. Luckily there are many reasonably priced 144Hz monitors such as the BenQ XL2411and ASUS VG248QE.

The advantages of a high refresh rate don't end with the monitor though; if you're using a system that's pushing 60 frames per second you'll have an input latency between 55 milliseconds and 75 milliseconds; play on a rig that's producing 240 frames each second and that latency is reduced to values between 20 and 35 milliseconds.

Gaming at high refresh rates thus isn't just a matter of getting a high refresh rate monitor, but it's also a matter of getting a good gaming PC with a dedicated graphics card. We've been analyzing the graphics cards that the pros are using to give you an idea of the horsepower you'll need to run the game at different framerates and different settings. Feel free to check out our guide here in case you want to know more about the performance of different GPUs.

To the right you can see an excerpt from that article in the form of the average expected frames per second (at 1920 x 1080) with three of the best graphics cards out there right now. It's incredibly important to maximize your frames, but obviously it doesn't make sense to get a top of the line graphics card if you're running a budget build, so feel free to read our guide to get a general idea of the framerate that you should expect with different GPUs.

In any case: 144 frames per second (coupled with a monitor that's capable of displaying those frames) is very much the new competitive standard, so we see that as the minimum if you want to be competitive, as the advantages of a high refresh rate setup cannot be denied.