Nioh 3 is a truly visual masterpiece that’s better played in high graphics, but the performance in the early hours hasn’t been smooth. If you’re on a PC, you can easily tweak certain settings to get more out of your hardware.
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We already got an early taste of PC gameplay, all thanks to the demo that’s available for free. While a massive benefit is continuing the main story on the full version, it also gave us an idea about what the best set of visual settings might look like.
Best Nioh 3 graphics settings
Before I dive deeper into the settings, here’s how my setup looks.
- AMD Ryzen 5600G
- NVIDIA RTX 3060 12 GB
- 16 GB of DDR5 RAM
Here are the settings I rolled with on my PC.
- Display Mode: Borderless
- VSync: Off
- Resolution: 1920×1080 (depends on your setup)
- Frame Rate Cap: 60 FPS
- Graphics Presets: Custom
- Upscaling: DLSS
- Sharpening: 1.0
- Rendering Resolution: 65%
- Dynamic Resolution: 60
- Minimum Rendering Resolution: 50%
- Maximum Rendering Resolution: 65%
- Frame Generation: Off
- FPS Dynamic Adjustment: On
- HDR: Off
- Post-Effects Resolution: Standard
- Motion Blur: Off
- Chromatic Aberration: Off
- Len Vignette: Off
- Noise Filter: Off
- Mach Band Noise: Off
- Color Precision: Standard
- Depth of Field: Off
- Lens Flare: Off
- Bloom: Off
- Subsurface Scattering: Off
- Shadow Quality: Standard
- Ambient Occlusion: Very Low
- Model Quality: Standard
- Model Texture Quality: Standard
- Number of Models Displayed: Few
- Wind Sway: Off
- Anisotropic Filtering: Off
- Effects: Standard
- Motion Quality: Low
- Screen Space Reflection: Very Low
- Background Mesh Quality: Standard
- Terrain: Low
- Grass Density: Low
- Volumetric Cloud Quality: Low
- FPS (Cutscenes): 30
- Cutscene Quality: Standard
- Global Illumination: Standard
There are two pointers to note.
- I kept Vsync off because you reduce the load on your system but sacrifices very little in return. Hence, it’s best to keep it off.
- Keeping the FPS capped to 60 gave me the best results. There were no lags, no stutters, and the performance held steady at 60 FPS. However, you can choose to go for uncapped if you have a better system.
