Sony Interactive Entertainment and Shift Up’s action-adventure game, Stellar Blade, 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 Stellar Blade, 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.
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: Borderless Windowed Mode
- Screen Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Vertical Sync: Off on a VRR/G-sync display, On otherwise
- Target Frame Rate: Max possible on a VRR/G-sync display, otherwise set according to preferred target frame rate
GRAPHICS
- Resolution Scaling Mode: NVIDIA DLSS on supported NVIDIA GPUs, else AMD FSR
- Scaling Mode Quality: Quality
- Environmental Object Detail: Medium
- Character Object Detail: High
- Environmental Texture : Very High
- Character Texture: Very High
- Clutter Density: Medium
- Environmental Object Visible Distance: 40
- Character Visible Distance: 50
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Lighting Quality: Medium
- Volumetric Fog: Medium
- Particle Quality: Medium
- Animation Quality: Medium
- Ambient Occlusion: Medium
- Depth of Field: as per preference
- Motion Blur: as per preference
- Screen Space Reflection Quality: Medium
How Does Stellar Blade Run On Steam Deck?
DISPLAY
- Display Mode: Borderless Windowed Mode
- Screen Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Vertical Sync: On
- Target Frame Rate: 45
GRAPHICS
- Resolution Scaling Mode: AMD FSR
- Scaling Mode Quality: Performance
- Environmental Object Detail: Low
- Character Object Detail: Medium
- Environmental Texture : Low
- Character Texture: Low
- Clutter Density: Medium
- Environmental Object Visible Distance: 30
- Character Visible Distance: 10
- Shadow Quality: Very Low
- Lighting Quality: Low
- Volumetric Fog: Low
- Particle Quality: Low
- Animation Quality: Low
- Ambient Occlusion: Low
- Depth of Field: Low
- Motion Blur: as per preference
- Screen Space Reflection Quality: Off
As seen in the video, Stellar Blade runs at a frame rate of 45 fps on the Steam Deck OLED and 40 fps on the standard version of the handheld using the above settings. Given that the performance is mostly stable, we recommend playing the game on Valve’s handheld device.
