Sony Interactive Entertainment and Ballistic Moon’s remake of the interactive drama horror game, Until Dawn, 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 the Until Dawn remake 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.
Until Dawn Remake 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.
SCREEN
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Frame Rate Limit: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, otherwise with target frame rate set according to preference
- Vertical Sync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise
QUALITY
- View Distance: High
- Anti-Aliasing Method: TAA
- Anti-Aliasing Quality: High
- Post-Processing: High
- Shadows: Medium
- Textures: Ultra
- Effects: High
- Foliage: High
- Volumetric Lighting & Fog: Medium
- Reflections: High
- Shading Quality: Ultra
RESOLUTION SCALING
- Upscale Method: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else AMD FSR
- Upscale Quality: Quality
RAY TRACING
- Ray Tracing: Off
- Ray Traced Reflections: Off
- Enhanced Ray Tracing Effects: Off
- Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion: Off
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
SCREEN
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Frame Rate Limit: Off
- Vertical Sync: Off
QUALITY
- View Distance: Near
- Anti-Aliasing Method: TAA
- Anti-Aliasing Quality: Low
- Post-Processing: Low
- Shadows: Low
- Textures: Medium
- Effects: Low
- Foliage: Low
- Volumetric Lighting & Fog: Low
- Reflections: Low
- Shading Quality: Low
RESOLUTION SCALING
- Upscale Method: AMD FSR
- Upscale Quality: Performance
RAY TRACING
- Ray Tracing: Off
- Ray Traced Reflections: Off
- Enhanced Ray Tracing Effects: Off
- Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion: Off
As seen in the video above, mostly dropping the graphical settings to their lowest allows the Until Dawn remake to generally run at around 30 fps during gameplay. In order to get a relatively consistent frame time delivery, set the frame limit to 30 fps via the Steam Deck overlay.
