Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja’s action role-playing game, Nioh 3, 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 Nioh 3, 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.
Nioh 3 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.
VISUALS
- Display Mode: Borderless
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else On
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Upscaling Method: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, Intel XeSS on Intel GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Rendering Resolution: 65%
- Dynamic Resolution: 120
- Minimum Rendering Resolution: 50%
- Maximum Rendering Resolution: 65%
- Frame Rate Cap: 120 (Locked)
- Post-Effects Resolution: Standard Quality
- Motion Blur: Off
- Chromatic Aberration: Off
- Lens Vignette: Off
- Noise Filter: Off
- Mach Band Noise: Off
- Color Precision: High Quality
- Depth of Field: Off
- Lens Flare: Off
- Bloom: Off
- Subsurface Scattering: On
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Ambient Occlusion: Low
- Model Quality: Standard Quality
- Model Texture Quality: Standard Quality
- Number of Models Displayed: Few
- Wind Sway: On
- Anisotropic Filtering: x16
- Effects: Standard Quality
- Motion Quality: Standard Quality
- Screen Space Reflection: On
- Background Mesh Quality: Standard Quality
- Terrain: Standard Quality
- Grass Density: Low
- Volumetric Cloud Quality: Low
- FPS (Cutscenes): 60 (Locked)
- Cutscene Quality: Standard Quality
- Global Illumination: Standard Quality
How Does Nioh 3 Run On Steam Deck?
VISUALS
- Display Mode: Borderless
- VSync: Off
- Resolution: 1280 x 720
- Upscaling Method: XeSS
- Rendering Resolution: 25%
- Dynamic Resolution: 30
- Minimum Rendering Resolution: 25%
- Maximum Rendering Resolution: 25%
- Frame Rate Cap: 30 (fixed)
- Post-Effects Resolution: Standard Quality
- Motion Blur: Off
- Chromatic Aberration: Off
- Lens Vignette: Off
- Noise Filter: Off
- Mach Band Noise: Off
- Color Precision: Standard Quality
- Depth of Field: Off
- Lens Flare: Off
- Bloom: Off
- Subsurface Scattering: Off
- Shadow Quality: Very Low
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
- Model Quality: Low Quality
- Model Texture Quality: Very Low
- Number of Models Displayed: Few
- Wind Sway: Off
- Anisotropic Filtering: Off
- Effects: Low Quality
- Motion Quality: Low Quality
- Screen Space Reflection: Off
- Background Mesh Quality: Very Low
- Terrain: Very Low
- Grass Density: Very Low
- Volumetric Cloud Quality: Very Low
- FPS (Cutscenes): 30 (fixed)
- Cutscene Quality: Low Quality
- Global Illumination: Very Low
As seen in the above video, Nioh 3’s frame rate tends to stay well below 30 fps on the Steam Deck using the lowest possible graphical settings, often hovering between the mid 10s and low 20s. As such, we don’t consider the game playable on Valve’s handheld device.
