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.
