Ghost of Tsushima is acclaimed for its stunning visuals, but this makes it quite demanding on your hardware, and as such, you may not be able to run it at a high frame rate, especially on low-end computers. This guide will tell you the best graphics settings to get the most FPS out of Ghost of Tsushima.
The best graphics settings of Ghost of Tsushima
Ghost of Tsushima is highly optimized out of the box, so it works fine on mid-range PCs 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 the Graphics Settings from the main menu and set them to the following to achieve higher frame rates.
| Configuration | Value |
|---|---|
| Predefined | habit |
| Motion Blur Strength | 0 |
| Field of view | 10 |
| Texture Quality | Medium (Set it to higher if you have VRam left) |
| Texture Filtering | Trilinear |
| Shadow Quality | Low |
| Level of Detail | Low |
| Terrain Detail | Low |
| Volumetric Fog | Low |
| Depth of Field | Off |
| Screen Spatial Reflections | Disabled (Enable if you don’t mind losing a few FPS) |
| Screen Space Shadows | Off |
| Surrounding Occlusion | Off |
| Bloom | Off |
| Vignette | Off |
| Water Caustic | Off |
In addition to the Graphics settings, go to the Display settings menu from the main menu and change the following settings.
| Configuration | Value |
|---|---|
| Image format | Automatically |
| Refresh rate | Set close to the amount of average FPS you get. |
| VSync | Off |
| shine | until you |
| Contrast | until you |
| HDR | until you |
| HDR Maximum Luminance | until you |
| HDR Paper White | until you |
| Advanced Method | DLSS (Or AMD FSR if you’re not using an RTX card) |
| Advanced Quality | Zero |
| Dynamic Resolution Scaling | 60 |
| Anti-alienation | Zero |
| NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency | On |
| Frame Generation | AMD FSR 3 Frame Generation |
Results for the best Ghost of Tsushima graphics settings
Before applying the settings, I walked around 60 to 70 FPS on Ultra Present with RTX 3060, I5-11400f, and PNY XLR8 3600mhz clocked at 2133mhz. After applying the above settings, I got a massive boost all around 140 to 150 average FPSas seen in the before and after pictures.
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