Xbox Game Studios and Ninja Theory’s action adventure game, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, is now available on PC, and we’ve put together the best PC settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
Before we delve into the best settings for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 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.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 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
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: set as per the max resolution of your display or preference
UPSCALER
- Custom Upscaler: DLSS on supported Nvidia GPUs, else XeSS on Intel Arc GPUs, else AMD FSR
- Frame Generation: Off
- Super Resolution: Quality
- Automatic Sharpness: Off
GENERAL
- Vertical Sync: Off on a display that supports VRR/G-Sync, On otherwise
- Nvidia Reflex: Off
- Variable Rate Shading: Off
QUALITY
- Antialiasing: disabled with custom upscaler enabled
- Post-Processing Quality: Medium
- Effects Quality: High
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Reflection Quality: High
- Global Illumination Quality: High
- Volumetrics: Medium
- Texture Quality: High
- View Distance: High
- Foliage Detail: High
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
DISPLAY
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
UPSCALER
- Custom Upscaler: AMD FSR
- Super Resolution: Performance
- Sharpness: Off
GENERAL
- Vertical Sync: Off on a display that supports VRR/G-Sync, On otherwise
- Nvidia Reflex: Off
- Variable Rate Shading: Off
QUALITY
- Antialiasing: disabled with custom upscaler enabled
- Post-Processing Quality: Low
- Effects Quality: Standard
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Reflection Quality: Low
- Global Illumination Quality: Low
- Volumetrics: Low
- Texture Quality: Medium
- View Distance: Low
- Foliage Detail: Low
As seen in the video above, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 performs reasonably well at mostly Low graphics settings on the Steam Deck. Given how it is a graphically demanding game, it generally runs at around 30 fps.
