Black Myth: Wukong Best Settings Guide For PC

Muhammad Ali Bari August 24, 2024

Game Science’s action role-playing game, Black Myth: Wukong, is now available, and we’ve put together the best PC settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.

Before we delve into the best settings for Black Myth: Wukong on PC, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.

Black Myth: Wukong Best Settings

The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.

SETTINGS

Display Mode: Fullscreen
Display Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
V-Sync: Off on a VRR supported display, On otherwise
Super Resolution: 50
Super Resolution Sampling: DLSS if supported by GPU, else FSR
Graphics Preset: Custom
View Distance Quality: High
Post-effects Quality: High
Shadow Quality: High
Texture Quality: Very High
Visual Effects Quality: Medium
Hair Quality: High
Vegetation Quality: High
Global Illumination Quality: High (or Very High if performance headroom is available)
Reflection Quality: High (or Very High if performance headroom is available)

Steam Deck Optimized Settings

The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.

SETTINGS

Display Mode: Fullscreen
Display Resolution: 1280 x 800
V-Sync: Off
Super Resolution: 50
Super Resolution Sampling: TSR
Graphics Preset: Custom
View Distance Quality: Low
Post-effects Quality: Low
Shadow Quality: Low
Texture Quality: Medium
Visual Effects Quality: Low
Hair Quality: Low
Vegetation Quality: Low
Global Illumination Quality: Low
Reflection Quality: Low

As seen in the video above, Black Myth: Wukong delivers relatively consistent performance (with frame limit set to 30 fps) at Low graphics settings on the Steam Deck.