Koei Tecmo Games’ action game, Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, 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 Ninja Gaiden 2 Black 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.
Ninja Gaiden 2 Black 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.
SCREEN SETTINGS
- 2D Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- V-Sync: Off on a VRR or G-Sync supported display, otherwise On
- FPS Limit: 120 (or below, as per available performance)
- FPS Limit (event): 60
- Super Resolution Type: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else AMD FSR3
- Super Resolution Quality: Quality
- Ray Tracing: Off
- Anisotropic Filtering: x16
- Shadow Quality: Standard
- Effects Quality: High Quality
- Global Illumination: High Quality
- Reflections: High Quality
- Foliage: High Quality
- Motion Blur: Off
- Depth of Field: On
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
SCREEN SETTINGS
- 2D Resolution: 1280 x 720
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- V-Sync: Off
- FPS Limit: 60
- FPS Limit (event): 60
- Super Resolution Type: AMD FSR3
- Super Resolution Quality: Balanced
- Ray Tracing: Off
- Anisotropic Filtering: x2
- Shadow Quality: Light
- Effects Quality: Light
- Global Illumination: Light
- Reflections: Light
- Foliage: Light
- Motion Blur: Off
- Depth of Field: Off
As seen in the video above, even at the lowest settings, Ninja Gaiden 2 Black runs at a highly variable frame rate on Steam Deck that usually hovers in the 30 to 40 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.
