Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive’s latest first-person shooter, John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, 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 John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, 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.
John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando 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
- Screen Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Render Resolution: Performance
- Resolution Upscaling: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, XeSS otherwise
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else On
- Motion Blur Intensity: Off (or as per preference)
- FPS Limit: Unlimited
- Cinematic Ambiance: On
- Texture Filtering: High
- Texture: Ultra
- Shadows: Medium
- SSAO: High
- SSR: High
- Effects: High
- Details: Ultra
- Volumetric Effects: High
How Does John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Screen Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Render Resolution: Performance
- Resolution Upscaling: XeSS
- Dynamic Reolution FPS Target: 30
- VSync: Off
- Motion Blur Intensity: Off
- FPS Limit: 60
- Cinematic Ambiance: On
- Performance Mode: Prioritize Performance
- Texture Filtering: Low
- Texture: Low
- Shadows: Low
- SSAO: Off
- SSR: Off
- Effects: Low
- Details: Low
- Volumetric Effects: Low
As seen in the above video, John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando often tends to maintain a frame rate above 30 fps on the Steam Deck using mostly the lowest graphical settings, with some occasional dips into the high 20s. As such, we consider the game playable on Valve’s handheld device.
