Black Myth: Wukong Optimization, The Best Settings to Change on PC!

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Video Index
00:00 - Welcome to Hardware Unboxed
01:55 - Presets
05:32 - View Distance Quality
06:12 - Anti-Aliasing Quality
06:46 - Post-Effects Quality
07:14 - Shadow Quality
09:43 - Texture Quality
10:57 - Visual Effect Quality
11:55 - Hair Quality
12:39 - Vegetation Quality
13:50 - Global Illumination Quality
15:32 - Reflection Quality
16:37 - Motion Blur
16:56 - Full Ray Tracing
22:44 - PC Optimized Settings
24:54 - Final Thoughts and Areas For Improvement

Black Myth: Wukong Optimization, The Best Settings to Change on PC!

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Outro music by David Vonk/DaJaVo

[madtech]

im glad Tim's optimization guides are back

[Draig]

when they meant low, they MEANT LOW 💀💀💀💀

[RohitKumar-dqfb]

Please start making these optimisation videos a regular thing. Thanks for the work

[zedetach]

This game desperately needs a mod that removes the sharpening filter.

[WayStedYou]

The low texture quality even on cinematic on certain things like the rocks and trees is interesting considering how heavy everything else is in the title.

[drumhopttv]

"We're not gonna do optimization guides anymore." (BM:Wukong breaks records) "So anyway here's our optimization guide for Black Myth: Wukong."

[gelonyobakkopan]

Low preset straight up looks like dark souls 1 blight town 💀💀

[WayStedYou]

Damn, low looks like an entirely different game when you see the cutback vegetation and lighting.

[munkeyu]

1.547M Concurrent players right now! That's wild!

[EVPointMaster]

PSA for DLSS:
From my test in the Benchmark, DLSS does not work like the game says it does. It does not use 75% render scale.
For some reason DLSS is not actually using the resolutions displayed on the slider. Instead it only uses the "Current DLSS Quality Mode" displayed under the Super Resolutions description. These use the typical DLSS resolutions. The slider does allow you to change the Quality mode, but it only uses the 5 discrete values for the different Quality modes.
You can display DLSSs internal render resolution with the DLSS overlay enabled in regedit/DLSSTweaks or show it with Special Ks overlay.
As far as I can tell the other upscalers use the actual slider resolutions.

Aditionally, there is a display bug that sometimes changes the displayed slider value. For example if I set the slider to 89 and hit apply, then leave the menu, opening the menu up again the slider will show 88 instead. 88 will also be displayed in the benchmark result, but this is not correct. You can open the config file and see that the game is still set to 89% render resolution.

[mclarenfgtr]

Really like that they have a quite low preset that can even run on Steam deck and an Ultra High preset that even the RTX4090 struggles, intended for future hardware.

[fueler]

People sometimes seem to mistake a demanding game with an un-optimised game.

[yoitsmegabe]

5:01 "low end gamers" is the new insult i'm going to start using lmao.

[viniqf]

Just a little tidbit of info, software lumen is still a form of RT. I don't know if we can disable RT in this game while running it in DX12

[kwakes]

i wish games would let you tweek individual ray tracing settings and not just presets, all i want is shadows to get rid of the flickering

[spacechannelfiver]

With HUB Quality + 50% FSR I can get the benchmark to pretty consistently hit 60FPS when targetting 4K (capping the framerate) - with Frame Gen it's usually hovering at a stable 120. That's on a 7900XT. Happy enough with that. My gaming budget this month is likely going on Space Marine 2.

[gabber_]

For my non-40 RTX bros, remember you can enable FSR3 FG+DLSS with the DLSSG-TO-FSR3 mod on NexusMods.
On my 3080Ti:
HUB optimized settings for minimum of high+some cinematic
1440p 75% DLSS with FSR3 framegen mod: 120 fps locked

Enjoy!

[vathone]

There is literally noone on the internet that does optimization videos even half as good as Hardware Unboxed. The attention to detail is just incredable. Keep up the excellent work!

[Kaptime]

So the image quality is fundamentally broken. Sharpness is a defect, after all. 28:10

[Slickman]

Another tip, this game has a percentage slider for DLSS. If you want Quality mode as it is in every other game set it to 67%. That gets you closest to upscaling from 1440p which is what DLSS Quality is on every other game.