Bandai Namco Entertainment and Rebel Wolves’ action role-playing game, The Blood of Dawnwalker, 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 The Blood of Dawnwalker, 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.
The Blood of Dawnwalker 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
- Resolution: As per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Frame Rate Limit: Set to Off or your preference via Maximum FPS setting
- VSync: Off (on a display that doesn’t support VRR/G-Sync, turn On if screen tearing is bothersome)
QUALITY
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Light Quality: Low
- Reflections Quality: Medium
- Post-Processing Quality: High
- Texture Quality: Ultra
- Effects Quality: High
- Shading Quality: High
- Foliage Quality: High
- Detail Quality: Low
- Volumetric Quality: Medium
UPSCALING
- Upscaling Technology: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Upscaling Quality: Performance
POST-PROCESSING
- Motion Blur: As per your preference
- Bloom: On
- Chromatic Aberration: As per your preference
- Depth of Field: On
How Does The Blood of Dawnwalker Run On Steam Deck?
DISPLAY
- Display Mode: Borderless Windowed
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Frame Rate Limit: On (Maximum FPS setting: 30)
- VSync: Off
QUALITY
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Light Quality: Low
- Reflections Quality: Low
- Post-Processing Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Effects Quality: Low
- Shading Quality: Low
- Foliage Quality: Low
- Detail Quality: Low
- Volumetric Quality: Low
UPSCALING
- Upscaling Technology: XeSS
- Upscaling Quality: Balanced
POST-PROCESSING
- Motion Blur: Off
- Bloom: On
- Chromatic Aberration: Off
- Depth of Field: On
As seen in the above video, The Blood of Dawnwalker is often drops below the target frame rate of 30 fps on the Steam Deck using mostly the lowest graphical settings, mostly into the mid to high 20s and rarely into the low 20s. As such, we consider the game to be somewhat playable on Valve’s handheld device.
