Hogwarts Legacy: which setting to choose on PS5 and Xbox Series between performance, fidelity, balanced or HFR?

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Hogwarts Legacy: The Legacy of Hogwarts made its debut on February 7 for those who pre-ordered the Deluxe version of the game. For gamers a little more patient, the new adventure in the Harry Potter universe will be available from February 10.

We’re going to take a closer look at the console versions of Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy. In all, Hogwarts offers no less than 5 different modes available in the game settings, .

• Fidelity (For optimal 4K resolution and boosted graphics)
• Fidelity with Launch of light (Boosted lighting effects and very good graphic rendering)
• Performance (To achieve optimal fluidity)
• Balanced (No Ray-tracing, but a perfect balance between fluidity and quality)
• HFR performance (Extreme fluidity at the expense of visual quality)

Attention ! Depending on the technology of your television, you will not necessarily see all 5 options!

Indeed, HFR and Balanced are only possible for 4K 120 Hz TVs with an HDMI 2.1 port. In itself, Hogwarts Legacy is a showcase game for this generation of consoles, the graphics are absolutely beautiful and it is better to favor impeccable visual quality than absolute fluidity.

When the two Loyalty modes try to take advantage of all the visual qualities of the title, the performance and HFR modes want above all to draw fluidity from the top. In video games, this is called “FPS” for Frame Per Second, which indicates how many images are displayed on the screen in the space of one second.

In the cinema, the framerate is often confined to 24 fps. But for a video game, where the action that takes place must be perfectly synchronized with the controller, the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles aim for 60 fps, or even more in certain games.

What is the optimal configuration to play Hogwarts Legacy on console?

For once, the contribution of Ray-Tracing does not greatly improve things, except in some very specific places with slightly more detailed shadow effects at Hogwarts. Concretely, I advise you not to use the Loyalty mode with Ray-Tracing since the fluidity will not be there and you risk encountering large framerate drops in certain places.

The same goes for the HFR, which will greatly boost your fluidity… In exchange for a lower visual quality, which would be a shame for a game of such beauty.

Here is what the graphics modes look like, ranked from the most beautiful (with a lower number of frames per second) to the least beautiful (but very fluid with a high number of frames per second):

• Fidelity with Lightcast (4K with Ray-Tracing targeting 30 fps)
• Fidelity (4K without Ray-Tracing targeting 30 fps)
• Balanced (4K targeting 40 fps – option visible only in HDMI 2.1)
• Performance (1080p targeting 60 fps)
• HFR performance (1080p targeting 120 fps – option visible only in HDMI 2.1)

You can experiment with each mode to see which works best for you. On our side, we recommend the simple “Loyalty” mode without throwing light. It will bring you a very good visual quality with correct fluidity and image stability.

Indeed, even if you have a powerful TV, it is clearly useless to seek a very high framerate for a game of its kind. The same goes for the Ray-Tracing function which is very (very) discreet and will not bring you anything crazy on the screen.

To optimize your graphics options, here are some other tips in the settings:

• Maximum frame rate limit: set to “disabled” to have a higher framerate at times, if you want a stable framerate but which never exceeds a certain threshold, activate the option.
• Motion blur: put in “disabled” if you play less than 2 meters from your screen, otherwise, leave it “Enabled”.
• Depth of field : set to “Enabled” for better immersion (blur effect on the horizon).
• Chromatic aberration: set to “On” for better lighting effects.
• Film Grain: set to “Disabled” to gain their image clarity. If you like the “grainy” side of the image a bit like in the Harry Potter movies, you can leave it activated.

If you are looking for a perfect 4K TV to play Hogwarts Legacy, here is a list of good models to fully enjoy it for all budgets:

High-end OLED (4 HDMI 2.1 120 Hz ports, VRR FreeSync, HDR…):

• Buy the Samsung S95B 55-inch 4K TV for €1,249 at Rue du Commerce
• Buy the Samsung S95B 65-inch 4K TV for €1,899 at Rue du Commerce

Value for money in Mini LED:

• Buy the TCL C835 55-inch 4K TV for €803.88 at Amazon
• Buy the TCL C835 65-inch 4K TV for €1,299 at Carrefour

Entry-level in classic LED:

• Buy the Hisense 43-inch 4K TV for €349.99 at Darty