Warner Bros Games and Traveller’s Tales’ latest LEGO-themed action-adventure game, LEGO Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight, 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 LEGO Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight, 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.
LEGO Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight 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.
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- Window Mode: Windowed Fullscreen
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else On
- Frame Rate Limit: Unlimited on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else set according to preferred target frame rate
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- HUD Visibility: Dynamic
- Anti-Aliasing: Off
- Upscaling: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Upscaling Quality: Performance
- Quality Presets: Custom
- Lighting Quality: Epic
- Shadows: Medium
- View Distance: Epic
- Streaming Distance: Epic
- Textures: Epic
- Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
- Material Quality: Medium
- Distance Field Ambient Occlusion: High
- LEGO Mesh Quality: Medium
- Effects: Epic
- Reflections: Medium
- Post Processing: Epic
- Population Quality: High
- Full Screen Effects Enabled: On
- Motion Blur: as per preference
- Weather Effects: On
- Repeating Visual Effects: On
- Bloom: On
- Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: On
How Does LEGO Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight Run On Steam Deck?
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- Window Mode: Windowed Fullscreen
- VSync: Off
- Frame Rate Limit: Unlimited
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- HUD Visibility: Dynamic
- Anti-Aliasing: Off
- Upscaling: AMD FSR
- Upscaling Quality: Balanced
- Quality Presets: Custom
- Lighting Quality: Low
- Shadows: Low
- View Distance: Near
- Streaming Distance: Near
- Textures: Low
- Anisotropic Filtering: 1x
- Material Quality: Low
- Distance Field Ambient Occlusion: Off
- LEGO Mesh Quality: Low
- Effects: Low
- Reflections: Low
- Post Processing: Off
- Population Quality: Low
- Full Screen Effects Enabled: On
- Motion Blur: as per preference
- Weather Effects: On
- Repeating Visual Effects: On
- Bloom: On
- Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: On
As seen in the above video, LEGO Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight runs above a frame rate of 30 fps for the most part on the Steam Deck using the lowest graphical settings, rarely dropping into the high 20s. As such, we consider the game playable on Valve’s handheld device.
