007 First Light Doesn't Have Graphics Presets on PC and You'll Need to Tinker to Get the Best Settings

While 007 First Light is the first actually good James Bond game in quite some time, developer IO Interactive has been making well-optimized PC games for years. It’s not surprising, then, that 007 First Light runs extremely well, at least once you clear its somewhat steep system requirements. The game requires just an AMD Radeon RX 5700 or a GeForce GTX 1660 to run, but its recommended spec is an RTX 3060 Ti or a 6700 XT. That’s quite a difference, but I will say that after testing the 3060 Ti at 1080p, it runs incredibly well, although the low VRAM means you’ll probably want to turn down the texture quality a bit, even at that lower resolution. In fact, the textures in this game are like a little sponge for video memory, and if you want to max it out at any resolution, you’re going to want to make sure you’re packing a GPU with at least 12GB of the stuff. And, at higher resolutions, you’re probably going to want to bump that requirement up to 16GB if you really want to avoid any stuttering. Unlike a lot of PC games these days, 007 First Light doesn’t have graphics presets. There is a button in the settings menu that’ll set everything to default, but at least on the pre-release bui