Sony Interactive Entertainment and Sucker Punch Productions’ action adventure game, Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut, is now available on PC, 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 Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut 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.
Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut 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
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Display Resolution: set as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Aspect Ratio: Auto
- VSync: Off on a display that supports VRR/G-Sync, On otherwise
- Upscale Method: DLSS on supported Nvidia GPUs, else XeSS on Intel Arc GPUs, else AMD FSR
- Upscale Quality: Quality
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling: Off
- Anti-Aliasing: TAA
- Nvidia Reflex Low Latency: Off
- Frame Generation: Off
GRAPHICS
- Preset: Custom
- Texture Quality: Very High on GPUs with 8 GB or higher VRAM, High on GPUs with 6 GB VRAM
- Texture Filtering: 16x Anisotropic
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Level Of Detail: High
- Terrain Detail: High on GPUs with 6 GB or higher VRAM
- Volumetric Fog: High
- Depth Of Field: High
- Screen Space Reflections: High
- Screen Space Shadows: Low
- Ambient Occlusion: SSAO Quality
- Bloom: On
- Vignette: On
- Water Caustics: On
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
DISPLAY
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Display Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Aspect Ratio: Auto
- VSync: Off
- Upscale Method: AMD FSR
- Upscale Quality: Quality
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling: Off
- Anti-Aliasing: Off
GRAPHICS
- Preset: Custom
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Texture Filtering: 8x Anisotropic
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Level Of Detail: Medium
- Terrain Detail: Medium
- Volumetric Fog: Medium
- Depth Of Field: Medium
- Screen Space Reflections: Low
- Screen Space Shadows: Low
- Ambient Occlusion: SSAO Quality
- Bloom: On
- Vignette: On
- Water Caustics: On
As seen in the video above, Ghost of Tsushima performs reasonably well at mostly Medium graphics settings on the Steam Deck. Given that it was originally a PS4 title, it isn’t too demanding on the handheld’s GPU and CPU, and generally runs at around 40 fps.
