Supermassive Games’ new survival horror game, Directive 8020, 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 Directive 8020, 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.
Directive 8020 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.
GRAPHICS
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Limit Frame Rate: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else set according to preferred target frame rate
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else On
- Upscaler: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Super Resolution: Performance
- Antialiasing Quality: High
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Global Illumination Quality: High
- Reflection Quality: High
- Post-Processing Quality: High
- Effects Quality: High
- Texture Quality: High
- Ray Tracing: On
- Path Tracing: Off
How Does Directive 8020 Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 720
- Limit Frame Rate: 30
- VSync: On
- Upscaler: TSR
- Super Resolution: Performance
- Preset: Steam Deck
As seen in the above video, Directive 8020 at a frame rate of 30 fps on the Steam Deck using mostly the graphical preset dedicated to the handheld, occasionally dropping into the mid to high 20s. As such, we consider the game playable on Valve’s handheld device.
