Sony Interactive Entertainment and Santa Monica Studio’s action adventure game, God of War Ragnarok, 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 God of War Ragnarok 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.
God of War Ragnarok 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
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise
- Frame Rate Limit: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise with target frame rate set according to preference
- Scaling Method: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else XeSS if supported by GPU, else AMD FSR3
- Scaling Quality: Quality
- Textures: High
- Models: High
- Anisotropic Filtering: Ultra
- Lighting: High
- Shadows: Medium
- Reflections: High
- Atmospherics: High
- Ambient Occlusion: High
- Tessellation: High
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
GRAPHICS
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- VSync: Off
- Frame Rate Limit: Off
- Scaling Method: AMD FSR3
- Scaling Quality: Performance
- Textures: Low
- Models: Low
- Anisotropic Filtering: High
- Lighting: Low
- Shadows: Low
- Reflections: Low
- Atmospherics: Low
- Ambient Occlusion: Medium
- Tessellation: Low
As seen in the video above, mostly dropping the graphical settings to their lowest allows God of War Ragnarok to generally run above 30 fps. In order to get a relatively consistent frame time delivery, set the frame limit to 30 or 40 fps via the Steam Deck overlay.
