The one-time Ps-exclusive, God of War, has lastly made its method onto our beloved PCs. With the promise of upper body charges, higher visuals, and relying in your stance, higher controls as properly, that is the easiest way of enjoying the much-loved sport. And the excellent news is that it does certainly play properly on a variety of {hardware} and resolutions.
Morgan loved a largely constant 90fps at 1080p on his RTX 3060 when reviewing it, whereas for testing right here I’ve loved an honest 50fps at 4K on an RTX 2080. Dropping the decision all the way down to 1440p resulted in 80fps, with 1080p returning as much as 120fps. A lot greater framerates are potential if you dive into the wealth of upscaling tech on supply too, with DLSS and FSR each current.
God of Conflict: Finest settings
Let’s concentrate on which settings have the largest influence on the body price on the decision you might be operating at. You may discover these choices below the Graphics menu of the primary Settings display screen, simply cycle alongside to the Customized preset and you can choose between Extremely, Excessive, Authentic and Low. If you happen to’ve obtained fairly updated {hardware}, it’s best to be capable of set all of the settings to Extremely, or Excessive relying in your decision.
What are one of the best settings for God of Conflict on PC?
Shadows: Authentic
Atmospherics: Low
Anisotropic Filtering: Low
Ambient Occlusion: Authentic
Mannequin High quality: Excessive
Texture High quality: Extremely
Reflections: Extremely
There are a few surprises right here, not least of which is the minimal influence Mannequin High quality and Texture High quality have on the body price. When testing at 4K, there is a mere 2fps distinction between the Extremely texture setting and the Minimal providing. On condition that the upper high quality textures can look higher than their low-res counterparts, the actual fact it has such a small influence on efficiency means you need to depart this as excessive as potential.
Reflections are a bit odd too, as reflective surfaces are used sparingly, significantly in the beginning of the sport. It is also the one setting that has an Extremely+ possibility. In case your efficiency is struggling in extremely reflective areas in a while, then dropping this down a notch or two is a clever transfer.
God of Conflict: Presets
Check bench PC specs
CPU: AMD Threadripper 2970WX
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080
RAM: 32GB DDR4-2400
SSD: 2TB Samsung 960 Professional
OS: Home windows 11 Professional
If you happen to’re searching for a fast and simple repair to your body price woes, then the presets, as ever, present a crude however important reply. These configure the seven graphics high quality settings to make for a smoother expertise at the price of an total tradeoff within the visuals. It is a fairly good wanting sport throughout the board although, so do not be delay dropping down from Excessive to Authentic for instance in order to take pleasure in a smoother expertise.
One factor of word is that the 4 presets do require totally different quantities of graphics card VRAM. At 4K, for instance, you are simply over 4GB for the bottom settings as much as 7GB for the Extremely settings. And you actually do not need to go over your graphics card’s reminiscence funds for this, as that may imply hobbling your graphics card’s efficiency as a consequence of not having sufficient.
One factor that could be a little odd with this port of God of Conflict is which you can’t change to a preset after which modify it your self, in order to hit the right stability between velocity and high quality. No, as an alternative it’s essential configure it from scratch utilizing the ‘Customized’ preset. This is not precisely laborious, as there are solely seven settings, and a few of these do little or no, however it’s uncommon not to have the ability to use a preset as a place to begin.
God of Conflict: Efficiency
God of Conflict has loved an amazing port to the PC. The truth that the PS4’s graphical settings have been labelled ‘Authentic’ signifies that you are having fun with a greater visible expertise simply by choosing ‘Excessive’ or ‘Extremely’—one thing I counsel each PC gamer does. You possibly can lastly turn off the vomit-inducing motion blur, in addition to kill the ‘movie grain’ whilst you’re at it.
Whereas there aren’t too many settings to mess around with, the core engine has come throughout properly, and which means easy framerates are throughout the grasp of anybody that has a reasonably up-to-date machine.
As ever, when you’re battling low framerates, then dropping the decision is a good suggestion. God of Conflict solely permits you to run in a window when you’re not operating on the Home windows default decision—you’ll be able to’t set it to 1080p fullscreen on a 1440p show in-game, though you set Home windows to that decision after which launch it. That is another excuse why DLSS or FSR are price enjoying round with right here—they only make it a lot simpler and look higher for it.
Proper, now the place has that boy, Atreus, obtained to?
