Capcom’s action-adventure game, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, 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 Onimusha: Way of the Sword, 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.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword 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.
DISPLAY
- Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
- Resolution: As per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Frame Rate: Set to the max refresh rate of your display or preference
- Uncapped Frame Rate: Off
- VSync: Off (on a display that doesn’t support VRR/G-Sync, turn On if screen tearing is bothersome)
GRAPHICS
- CPU Performance: Prioritize Performance
- Upscaling (Super Resolution): NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Upscaling Mode: Performance
- Upscaling Sharpness: 50
- Ray Tracing: Medium (or High if performance headroom is available)
- Texture Quality: High
- Texture Filtering Quality: Highest (Aniso x16)
- Mesh Quality: High
- Sky/Cloud Quality: High
- Foliage Quality: High
- Foliage Movement: On
- Ground Quality: High
- Cull Distance: High
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Contact Shadows: On
- Ambient Occlusion: High
- Bloom: High
- Motion Blur: As per your preference
- Screen Space Reflection: High
- SSSS Scattering: On
- Volumetric Fog Quality: High
How Does Onimusha: Way of the Sword Run On Steam Deck?
DISPLAY
- Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
- Resolution: 1280 x 720
- Frame Rate: 30
- Uncapped Frame Rate: Off
- VSync: On
GRAPHICS
- CPU Performance: Prioritize Performance
- Upscaling (Super Resolution): AMD FSR
- Upscaling Mode: Balanced
- Upscaling Sharpness: 100
- Render Scale: 100
- Ray Tracing: Off
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Texture Filtering Quality: Low (Trilinear)
- Mesh Quality: Low
- Sky/Cloud Quality: Low
- Foliage Quality: Low
- Foliage Movement: Off
- Ground Quality: Low
- Cull Distance: Lowest
- Shadow Quality: Lowest
- Contact Shadows: Off
- Ambient Occlusion: Low
- Bloom: Low
- Motion Blur: Off
- Screen Space Reflection:Off
- SSSS Scattering: Off
- Volumetric Fog Quality: Low
As seen in the above video, Onimusha: Way of the Sword is able to run at or close to the target frame rate of 30 fps on the Steam Deck using mostly the lowest graphical settings. As such, we consider the game to be playable on Valve’s handheld device.
