This page applies to any SPT version
SPT’s performance will generally be worse than a live PVP or online PVE raid, where bot AI logic (scavs, PMCs, bosses) is running on BSG servers. SPT runs all of the bot AI logic locally on your PC, which has a significant impact on your performance.
This is due to poor optimisation and a lack of multithreading.
CPUs with powerful single-threaded performance will improve your in-game FPS the most. AMD’s X3D CPUs are optimal for this reason.
Auto to Press in the in-game settings.Nvidia Reflex in the graphics settings.V-Sync in the graphics settings.Low or Medium.Low texture mode for Streets to further minimise memory usage.Unheard menu background.Your boot.config file is located in [game folder]\EscapeFromTarkov_Data.
Editing it brings no performance improvements.
By default, it contains this:
gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1
wait-for-native-debugger=0
hdr-display-enabled=0
gc-max-time-slice=3
single-instance=
build-guid=[some ID]
That’s what it should look like to avoid any issues.
The pagefile in Windows is used as “storage” for your RAM. If your RAM is filling up, Windows will start moving files to and from it. Even an SSD will be much slower than RAM, hence why it’s used sparingly. Windows should automatically increase it as required.
Your pagefile should be set to Automatically manage paging file size for all drives. To check if it is:
Performance, go into Settings, then the Advanced tab.Virtual memory press Change.Automatically manage paging file size for all drives enabled.If you experience crashes related to memory, make sure your drives have more than 30GB of free space available.
RAM Cleaner Fix at best won’t help you with any issues you might have, and at worst will cause your pagefile to be overused, which will instead cause issues. You shouldn’t use it.
However, if you still have crashes due to running out of memory even when the pagefile is automatically managed, then there’s an underlying issue with your Windows install. You should try to fix it by verifying your Windows files. However, you can manually set your pagefile as a temporary fix:
Manually setting your pagefile can lead to system crashes if it gets overfilled.
Automatically manage paging file size for all drives.Custom size.Initial size and Maximum size according to the amount of RAM you have:| - | - |
| Amount of RAM | Initial size | Maximum size |
| 16 GB | 16000 | 40000 |
| 32 GB | 32000 | 80000 |
If you encounter system crashes or BSODs after setting your pagefile manually, you should revert those changes by enabling automatic management as described in the beginning of this section.
GrassCutter and EnvironmentEnjoyer features might help your performance.Smooth motion (for 40 and 50 series GPUs), or AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames for EFT will let your GPU interpolate extra frames, using the unused part of your GPU.
This is an advanced setup requiring technical knowledge and an understanding of how SPT works.
While Project Fika is a mod available on the Forge, we do not offer support with it installed. If you wish to receive support while you are using Fika, you must seek support from Fika’s Discord server.
As stated in the introduction, the main performance impact on your game is bots. EFT does not efficiently utilise your system resources, using the same CPU thread to process bots and render your game. When you play an online raid in EFT, all bot processing happens on BSG’s servers, letting your CPU “concentrate” on rendering the game. If your game is not processing the bots, SPT’s performance becomes much closer to Live EFT. You should then become GPU bottlenecked, so your graphics will become the primary source of your performance.
Fika allows you to host a raid on a different computer as the one you’re playing on. This lets you recreate the conditions of a live EFT raid while still using SPT. To set up a headless client, follow this guide.
It’s also possible to use it to the raid on the same computer as the one you’re playing on, letting one part of your CPU render the game, while another processes the bots. You could further use a program like Process Lasso to manually delegate your CPU cores if you are an advanced user, but it’s not necessary. Please note that support from Project Fika is limited if you choose to run the headless client on the same PC where you are playing SPT. This is not the officially supported configuration and may lead to: