Xbox Game Studios, Team Ninja, and PlatinumGames’ action-adventure game, Ninja Gaiden 4, 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 Ninja Gaiden 4, 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 4 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
- Frame Rate Limit: as per the max refresh rate of your display or preference
- Vertical Sync: Disable on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else Enable
- Upscaling: DLSS set to Quality on supported GPUs, FSR set to Quality otherwise
- Anti-aliasing: Disable
- Graphic Preset: Custom
- Dynamic Resolution: Disable
- Motion Blur: as per your preference
- Ambient Occlusion: High
- Reflection Quality: High
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Texture Quality: High
- Volumetric Fog: Medium
- Wind Effects: Enable
How Does Ninja Gaiden 4 Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Frame Rate Limit: 60
- Vertical Sync: Enable
- Upscaling: FSR set to Balance
- Anti-aliasing: Disable
- Graphic Preset: Custom
- Dynamic Resolution: Enable
- Motion Blur: as per your preference
- Ambient Occlusion: Low
- Reflection Quality: Low
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Volumetric Fog: Medium
- Wind Effects: Enable
As seen in the above video, Ninja Gaiden 4’s frame rate tends to stay at 60 fps on the Steam Deck for the most part using these settings. As such, we consider the game to be highly playable on Valve’s handheld device.
