Koei Tecmo and Omega Force’s hack-and-slash game, Dynasty Warriors Origins, is now available on PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
Before we delve into the best settings for Dynasty Warriors Origins 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.
Dynasty Warriors Origins 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
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Frame Rate: as per the max refresh rate of your display if VRR/G-Sync supported, otherwise as per your preference
- V-Sync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, otherwise On
- Anti-aliasing: TAA
- Upscaling: NVIDIA DLSS set to Quality if supported by GPU, else Intel XeSS or AMD FSR3 set to Quality
- Texture Quality: Maximum
- Display Distance: High (or medium if targeting high frame rates)
- Volumetric Fog: On
- Bloom: On
- Lens Flare: On
- Characters: Many
- Model Quality: High
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Foliage Quality: High
- Effect Quality: Medium
- Ambient Occlusion: High
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
GRAPHICS
- Resolution: 1280 x 720
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Frame Rate: 60
- V-Sync: Off
- Anti-aliasing: TAA
- Upscaling: AMD FSR3 set to Quality
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Display Distance: Low
- Volumetric Fog: On
- Bloom: On
- Lens Flare: On
- Characters: Normal
- Model Quality: Steam Deck
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Foliage Quality: Low
- Effect Quality: Low
- Ambient Occlusion: Medium
As seen in the video above, even at mostly low settings, Dynasty Warriors Origins runs at a highly variable frame rate on Steam Deck that usually hovers in the 40 to 55 fps range, occasionally also dipping into the 30s. In order to run the game with a relatively consistent frame time delivery, set the frame limit to 40 fps on the LCD version of the handheld and 45 fps on the OLED version via the Steam Deck overlay.
