Bloober Team’s survival horror game, Cronos: The New Dawn, is now available for PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs and the Steam Deck.
Before we delve into the best settings for the PC version of Cronos: The New Dawn, 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.
Cronos: The New Dawn 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.
DISPLAY
- Screen Mode: Borderless
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Ray Tracing: Off (or On if performance target is met and enough performance headroom is available)
- FPS Limit: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else set to preferred target frame rate
- VSync Interval: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, otherwise set to match FPS limit
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Supersampling: DLSS
- DLSS Quality: Quality
- Motion Blur: Cutscenes only (or as per preference)
- Chromatic Aberration: Cutscenes only (or as per preference)
- AntiAliasing: None
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Texture Quality: High
- Shaders Quality: High (or medium if performance headroom isn’t available)
- Effects Quality: Medium
- Lens Flare: Medium
- SSAO: Enabled
- SSR: Enabled
- SSS Quality: High
- Image Sharpening: as per preference
How Does Cronos: The New Dawn Run On Steam Deck?
DISPLAY
- Screen Mode: Borderless
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Ray Tracing: Off
- FPS Limit: Off
- VSync Interval: Off
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Supersampling: XeSS
- DLSS Quality: Performance
- Quality Preset: Very Low
- Motion Blur: Off
- Chromatic Aberration: Cutscenes only (or as per preference)
As seen in the above video, Cronos: The New Dawn mostly runs at frame rates above 30 fps when uncapped, but can occasionally dip into the high 20s. As such, we consider the game playable on Valve’s handheld device.
