Marvel Rivals FPS Boost & Stutter Fix

Marvel Rivals is built on Unreal Engine 5, which brings gorgeous visuals and two familiar UE5 headaches: traversal stutter from live asset streaming, and heavy GPU load from Lumen global illumination. The path to smooth, competitive performance is reducing that GPU strain and smoothing frametimes, not just chasing average FPS.

Set your graphics to lift frames and cut stutter

• Use upscaling: turn on DLSS (Nvidia), FSR (AMD), or XeSS in Quality or Balanced mode, this is the single biggest FPS win in a UE5 game.
• Enable Frame Generation only if your base FPS is already decent; it adds smoothness but can add latency, so skip it for competitive aim if frames are low.
• Global Illumination / Lumen and Reflection Quality: Low, these are the heaviest settings in the game.
• Anti-Aliasing and Model Detail: Medium/Low; Shadow and Effects quality: Low for cleaner frametimes.
• V-Sync: Off; enable Nvidia Reflex or the in-game low-latency option if available.
• Cap FPS at a level your rig holds consistently (e.g. 138 on 144Hz) so frametimes stay flat during ults.

Reduce UE5 stutter and free up your system

1. 1
   Turn on upscaling first

   Enable DLSS/FSR/XeSS in Quality mode. It offloads the GPU dramatically, which is where UE5's real bottleneck is.

2. 2
   Drop Lumen-driven settings

   Set Global Illumination, Reflections, and Shadows to Low. These UE5 features cost the most frames for the least competitive value.

3. 3
   Close background apps before launch

   Browsers, overlays, and startup bloat steal CPU and VRAM, which worsens traversal stutter. Shut them down first.

4. 4
   Enable HAGS and Game Mode

   Turn on Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling and Game Mode in Windows Settings, then reboot, so Rivals gets scheduler priority.

5. 5
   Lock your GPU to max performance

   In NVIDIA Control Panel (or AMD software) set Prefer Maximum Performance and Low Latency Mode to Ultra so the GPU doesn't downclock.

Upscaling and quality drops handle the GPU side, but traversal stutter is also about how Windows schedules the GPU, pages memory, and lets background services interrupt the game. Those layers aren't in any UE5 settings menu, which is where system-level tuning earns its keep.

Sharpen your aim on precision heroes

On heroes like Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Hela, input consistency is everything. Disable Enhance Pointer Precision in Windows, set your mouse to 1000Hz polling, and keep the Windows pointer speed at the 6th notch. Then clear the last of the render-queue delay and hidden smoothing at the system level so your flicks land clean.