How to Increase FPS in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
Rainbow Six is a venerable franchise in gaming. The series has been around since 1998 and has received over a dozen different installments, available on consoles, computers and handhelds.
Rainbox Six Siege is the latest release in the long-running series so far and is a very popular online competitive shooter published by Ubisoft. The game runs on the latest version of Ubisoft Montreal's AnvilNext engine - the same venerable technology that powered Ubisoft hits such as Assassin's Creed and Prince of Persia in its older iterations.
Even though the scale and visible distances in most Rainbow Six levels are relatively small, the engine can still occasionally struggle for performance, especially on older hardware. This article will give you a couple of ideas you can try if you need to increase your FPS in Rainbow Six Siege, in case you are looking for that competitive edge without completely destroying your image quality.
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Update your video card driver
First things first - whenever you are having performance issues with any computer game, you should always check if your respective hardware manufacturer has released a new driver for your GPU. Considerably outdated drivers can cause serious performance issues in a lot of modern games and Rainbow Six Siege is no exception.
It is advisable to select the "clean install" option provided in both NVidia's and AMD's driver installers. This will ensure that your new, updated driver is installed onto a fresh, clean slate and will prevent any possible cases of driver file overlap and version mismatch issues.
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Tweak the game's settings
Like a number of other games on PC, Rainbow Six Siege offers one very peculiar option in its display settings menu. Under the game's VSync settings you can select between "1-frame" and "2-frame" VSync. If you are having unlikely FPS issues on a good system, make sure you have not accidentally set your VSync to 2-frame. Somewhat unintuitively, this setting makes the game run at half your refresh rate. This means that on a 60Hz monitor, you will only be getting 30 FPS at most, regardless of how good your hardware is.
Set VSync to 1-frame or turn it off entirely to run the game at the highest framerate your hardware can provide.
The game also has Vulkan support, so if you are running an AMD GPU, you should try the Vulkan renderer. Vulkan will usually offer a significant performance boost for AMD users, provided the game supports it, you have a Vulkan-enabled GPU and the latest drivers.
