Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja’s action role-playing game, Rise of the Ronin, 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 Rise of the Ronin 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.
Rise of the Ronin 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
- Vsync: Off on a VRR or G-Sync supported display, otherwise On
- Display Mode: Borderless
- FPS Limit: 120, or as per the max refresh rate of your display or preference
- FPS Limit: 60
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Upscaling Type: DLSS if supported by GPU, else XeSS or FSR3
- Upscaling Quality: Quality
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Shadow Quality: Standard
- Ambient Occlusion: Standard
- Model Quality: High
- Model Texture Quality: Ultra
- Number of Models Displayed: High
- Wind Sway: Standard
- Anisotropic Filtering: x16
- Effects: Standard
- Motion Quality: High
- Global Illumination: Standard
- Screen Space Reflections: Standard
- LOD Distance: Standard
- Terrain: Standard
- Grass Density: High
- Subsurface Scattering: On
- Volumetric Quality: Standard
- Event Quality: Standard
- Crowd Density: High
- Post-Effects Resolution: High
- Motion Blur: Standard
- Depth of Field: On
- Ray-Traced Reflections: Off (or On if performance headroom is available)
How Does Rise of The Ronin Run On Steam Deck?
VISUALS
- Vsync: Off
- Display Mode: Borderless
- FPS Limit: 30
- FPS Limit: 30
- Resolution: 1280 x 720
- Upscaling Type: FSR3
- Upscaling Quality: Performance
- Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Shadow Quality: Lowest
- Ambient Occlusion: Off
- Model Quality: Low
- Model Texture Quality: Lowest
- Number of Models Displayed: Low
- Wind Sway: Off
- Anisotropic Filtering: Off
- Effects: Low
- Motion Quality: Low
- Global Illumination: Lowest
- Screen Space Reflections: Off
- LOD Distance: Lowest
- Terrain: Lowest
- Grass Density: Lowest
- Subsurface Scattering: Off
- Volumetric Quality: Lowest
- Event Quality: Low
- Crowd Density: Low
- Post-Effects Resolution: Standard
- Motion Blur: Off
- Depth of Field: Off
- Ray-Traced Reflections: Off
As seen in the video above, despite the lowest possible settings, Rise of the Ronin runs at a highly variable frame rate that is mostly above 20 fps on the Steam Deck during gameplay. As such, we don’t recommend playing the game on Valve’s handheld device.
