The remake of Koei Tecmo Games’ survival horror game, Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly, 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 the Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly remake, 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.
Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Remake 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.
SCREEN SETTINGS
- Display Settings: Borderless
- Screen Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Resolution Scaling Type: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Resolution Scale: 65
- Maximum FPS: 60
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else On
- Shadow Quality: Low Quality
- Shadow Render Distance: Standard
- Ambient Occlusion: On
- Texture Quality: Standard Quality
- Screen Space Reflections: On
- Siubsurface Scattering: On
- Model LOD: Standard
- Volumetric Fog Resolution: Standard
- Volumetric Cloud Quality: Standard Quality
- Motion Blur: Off (or as per preference)
- Motion Blur (Camera Obscura): Off (or as per preference)
- Depth of Field: On
How Does The Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Remake Run On Steam Deck?
SCREEN SETTINGS
- Display Settings: Borderless
- Screen Resolution: 1280 x 720
- Resolution Scaling Type: AMD FSR
- Resolution Scale: 65
- Maximum FPS: 30
- VSync: Off
- Shadow Quality: Low Quality
- Shadow Render Distance: Close
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
- Texture Quality: Low Quality
- Screen Space Reflections: Off
- Siubsurface Scattering: Off
- Model LOD: Lowest
- Volumetric Fog Resolution: Low
- Volumetric Cloud Quality: Low Quality
- Motion Blur: Off
- Motion Blur (Camera Obscura): Off
- Depth of Field: Off
As seen in the above video, the Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly remake tends to maintain 30 fps most of the time on the Steam Deck using the lowest available graphical settings, with occasional dips into the high 20s. As such, we consider the game very playable on Valve’s handheld device.
