Hey, just wanted to share something I stumbled across while trying to get Deadzone: Rogue to run smoother & look cleaner.

The game looks great out of the box, but it tanks performance—and honestly, there’s so much lighting going on that it can (in my opinion) look a bit too muddy or hazy in some scenes.

I tried messing with the settings, and here’s what actually made a big difference:

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• Shadow Quality – Off
  
• Global Illumination – Low
  
• Raytraced Shadows – Off
  
• Lumen Hardware Raytracing – Off

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Doing this gave me a noticeable FPS boost, and weirdly enough, the game looks better? (in terms of clarity) Less hazy, more crisp. It's not a look that's for everyone, I appreciate the degradation in eye candy but it works for me.

• It had a bigger boost in performance for me vs my friends setup, so your results may vary.
  
• If you see any artefacts / weird noisy light it's probably the Global Illumination setting.

• All On (+ RT Shadows & Lumens) 81~ FPS
  
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• All Off/Low (Optimised) 238~ FPS (my fps cap)
  
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• Shadow Quality & Global Illu On (-RT Shadows & Lumens Off) 163~ FPS
  

Different scenes/areas heavily change the FPS & how much visual light there is/isn't.

There’s a noticeable difference between Shadow Quality: Off and any of the “on” options — turning it off really eliminates the haze and excess glow. Not sure if it’s intentional, but it can be hard on the eyes after a while for some people (and unfortunately I'm one of those). Looks great, just a bit much for longer FPS sessions.

AI Upscaling (FSR, XeSS, etc.) is constantly changing, so I didn’t dive into it here — but it’s worth experimenting with for both FPS and clarity, depending on your setup.

Hope this helps! If a patch drops soon, maybe this’ll be irrelevant — but for now, it’s a quick way to make the game smoother and easier to look at.