Ghost of Tsushima is acclaimed for its stunning visuals, but this makes it quite demanding on the hardware and as such, you may not be able to run it at a high frame rate, especially on low-end PCs. This guide will tell you the best graphics settings to get the most out of Ghost of Tsushima’s FPS.
Best Ghost of Tsushima Graphics Settings
The ghost of Tsushima is highly optimized out of the box, so it works fine on mid-range PC at 1080p, but there are issues when you play on a low-end PC or want to run it at a higher resolution. In those cases, you need to go to Graphics Settings from the main menu and configure them as follows to achieve higher frame rates.
| Setting | Worth |
|---|---|
| Preset | Habit |
| Motion blur strength | 0 |
| Field of view | 10 |
| texture quality | Medium (set it to higher if you have one VRam left) |
| Texture filtering | trilinear |
| Shadow quality | Low |
| Level of detail | Low |
| Detail of the land | Low |
| Volumetric fog | Low |
| depth of field | Off |
| Screen Space Reflections | Disabled (Enable it if you don’t mind losing some FPS) |
| Screen space shadows | Off |
| Ambient occlusion | Off |
| Bloom | Off |
| Bullet point | Off |
| water caustics | Off |
In addition to the Graphics settings, go to the Screen settings menu from the main menu and change the following settings.
| Setting | Worth |
|---|---|
| aspect ratio | Car |
| Update frequency | Set it close to the amount of average FPS you are getting. |
| virtual synchronization | Off |
| Glow | Up to you |
| Contrast | Up to you |
| HDR | Up to you |
| HDR Maximum Luminance | Up to you |
| White HDR Paper | Up to you |
| Exclusive method | DLSS (Or AMD FSR if you’re not using an RTX card) |
| Exclusive quality | nothing |
| Dynamic resolution scaling | 60 |
| Antialiasing | nothing |
| NVIDIA Low Latency Reflex | In |
| Frame generation | AMD FSR 3 frame generation |
Results for the best Ghost of Tsushima graphics settings
Before applying the settings, I moved 60 to 70 FPS in Ultra Present with RTX 3060, I5-11400f and PNY XLR8 3600 mhz clocked at 2133 mhz. After applying the above settings I got a big boost to around 140 to 150 FPS averageas seen in the before and after images.
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