Frogwares’ survival horror game, The Sinking City 2, 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 Sinking City 2, 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 Sinking City 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.
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- Screen: Windowed Fullscreen
- Upscaling: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Upscaling Quality: Performance
- Resolution Quality: 100%
- V-Sync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else On
- FPS Limit: set to max refresh rate of your display or preference
- Motion Blur: as per your preference
- View Distance: Ultra
- Anti-Aliasing: Ultra
- Post-Processing: Ultra
- Textures: Ultra (Or lower if your VRAM allows)
- Effects: High
- Foliage: Ultra
- Reflections: Ultra
- Global Illumination: Medium
- Shading: High
- Hair: High
How Does The Sinking City 2 Run On Steam Deck?
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- Screen: Windowed Fullscreen
- Upscaling: TSR
- Upscaling Quality: Performance
- Resolution Quality: 60%
- V-Sync: On
- FPS Limit: 30
- Motion Blur: Off
- View Distance: Low
- Anti-Aliasing: Low
- Post-Processing: Low
- Textures: Low
- Effects: Low
- Foliage: Low
- Reflections: Low
- Global Illumination: Low
- Shading: Low
- Hair: High
As seen in the above video, The Sinking City 2 runs well below the target frame rate of 30 fps on the Steam Deck using the lowest graphical settings, even dropping into the 10s. As such, we consider the game to be unplayable on Valve’s handheld device.
