Deep Silver and Warhorse Studios’ action role-playing game, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, 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 Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 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.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 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 SETTINGS
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- V-Sync: Off on a VRR or G-Sync supported display, otherwise On
- FPS Limit: as per the display refresh rate or performance target
- Resolution Scaling Technology: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else AMD FSR
- Resolution Scaling Mode: Quality
- Motion Blur: Object
- Near DOF: On
- Antialiasing: SMAA2TX
- Object Quality: Ultra
- Particles: High
- Lighting: High
- Global Illumination: High
- Postprocess Quality: Medium
- Shader Quality: Ultra
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Textures: Ultra (or High on GPUs with 8 GB VRAM or below)
- Volumetric Effects Detail: High
- Vegetation Detail: High
- Character Detail: High
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
GRAPHICS SETTINGS
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- V-Sync: Off
- FPS Limit: 60
- Resolution Scaling Technology: AMD FSR
- Resolution Scaling Mode: Performance
- Motion Blur: Object
- Near DOF: On
- Antialiasing: SMAA2TX
- Object Quality: Low
- Particles: Low
- Lighting: Low
- Global Illumination: Low
- Postprocess Quality: Low
- Shader Quality: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Textures: Low
- Volumetric Effects Detail: Low
- Vegetation Detail: Low
- Character Detail: Low
As seen in the video above, even at the lowest settings, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 runs at a highly variable frame rate on Steam Deck that usually hovers in the 40 to 50 fps range during gameplay. 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.
