Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II PC | Performance Optimization Guide + Optimized Settings

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II PC performance. Every Hellblade 2 PC graphics setting + optimized settings for improved performance while retaining the game's intended visual presentation.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 INTRO
0:21 THIS GAME WILL COOK YOUR GPU
0:57 CUSTOM UPSCALER - NATIVE AA
2:03 CUSTOM UPSCALER - UPSCALING
3:22 VARIABLE RATE SHADING
3:36 ANTIALIASING
3:57 POST-PROCESSING QUALITY
4:24 EFFECTS QUALITY
4:41 SHADOW QUALITY
5:14 REFLECTION QUALITY
5:50 GLOBAL ILLUMINATION QUALITY
6:46 VOLUMETRICS
7:29 TEXTURE QUALITY
7:50 VIEW DISTANCE
8:35 FOLIAGE DETAIL
8:56 OPTIMIZED SETTINGS
9:07 MAX VS OPTIMIZED SETTINGS - GAMEPLAY
9:22 MAX VS OPTIMIZED SETTINGS - CUTSCENE

OPTIMIZED SETTINGS
CUSTOM UPSCALER: DLSS QUALITY
VARIABLE RATE SHADING: OFF (DOESN’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE)
ANTIALIASING: N/A
POST-PROCESSING QUALITY: HIGH
EFFECTS QUALITY: STANDARD
SHADOW QUALITY: LOW
REFLECTION QUALITY: MEDIUM
GLOBAL ILLUMINATION QUALITY: LOW
VOLUMETRICS QUALITY: LOW
TEXTURE QUALITY: HIGH (DOESN’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE)
VIEW DISTANCE: MEDIUM
FOLIAGE DETAIL: MEDIUM

PC SPECS:
GPU: RTX 3060 12GB
CPU: R5 3600X
RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz
Motherboard: MSI B450-A PRO MAX
OS: Windows 10
MONITOR: MSI G321Q 1440P 170HZ

[heyguyslolGAMING]

Tyvm, that opening sequence even tanks my 4090, lol. Gonna give this a go.

[heyguyslolGAMING]

Updated my settings and it def helped a lot w/ little to no visual performance loss (others might disagree but I'm content). I'm running on a 14700K + 4090 DLAA 4K w/ your applied settings and it seems to hold 90fps w/ very little fps dips. Additionally gpu temps went down nearly 6-8C and pwr down by about 75w. Great job and thank you.

[Tressie]

Impressive work, thanks a lot for this as it's the heaviest (or worse) "optimized" game I ever played. Thanks!!!

[Mayhemz.]

Awesome! Really really appreciate these vids! Even with a 4080 super and 7800x3d I use optimized settings to maintain high fps at 1440p uw and 4k.
I can't see a difference in motion fidelity wise between ultra and optimized most of the time, if anything the optimized looks better due to much higher fps.

[bamananama]

You're awesome Zyko and great video as always! Have a great day my dude

[valentinvas]

Huge thanks for this. It pisses me off when developers put several options for a graphical setting but they barely make any difference in both performance and visuals. In this case it's like half of them which is kinda weird. It's almost like they didn't want to give us settings that make the game look significantly worse because outside of pretty graphics it doesn't really offer much value. I play at 1440p with an RX 6900 XT and I kept getting mid 40s at certain sections despite tinkering with some settings but it looks like I was changing the wrong ones LOL.

[josuita]

Thank you for the video! Great as always !

In my case with a RX 6750 XT GPU (with slight OC) im sticking with TSR Native or 85/90%, which to me looks cleaner, also i preferred the superior effects over standard where i noticed less shimmer on some detail while not moving. Texture high Other settings on medium, im getting around 50 fps @1440p in the first game area.

[Chonkeeartist]

I've used your optimized settings at 1440p using a limited hardware (i7-14650HX RTX-4060 and 16GB RAM) I can actually run the game smoothly hovering around 70-85fps. I've updated the game to the latest version and they do seem to scale better now.

[thornstrikesback]

Cheers for the settings mate.... my Asus ROG Strix laptop with a 4060 is now getting between 90 - 100 fps @ 2k with DLSS quality and FG. I dont understand how i am getting anything close to this, but i am.

[styliejoker]

I'm still playing ghost of tsushima but still enjoyed this video thank you zyko

[chincemagnet]

Glad I watched this, I wasn’t sure about DLSS DLAA, also thought it was too soft. And was running 50 sharpness, but wanted a 2nd opinion. Good stuff 👍 crazy this game needs a 4090, but looks incredible. Just wish DSR worked.
DSR does work, you have to set your desktop to that resolution for it to work. Kinda annoying, but lots of games do that, especially PS games.

[DeadlySins]

Damn both my systems feeling threatened by this game abit🤣😂😅

[MediaBrad]

VRS has an impact but it depends on the scene. I was testing near the start when you first shimmy along a cliff edge looking down at the water and went from 66 to 82 fps with it enabled at 4K DLSS Quality on a 4080. There is a slight quality loss but it may be worth enabling rather than lowering other settings.

I'm really liking the preview mode in the menu. It allowing you to toggle the options off and on to check the performance and image quality on the fly. Also one thing to note, when in the menus (including preview mode) the DLSS frame generation is disabled, so any frame rates you see in the menus/preview mode will be higher when you exit the menu (however the in-game fps counter in Interface -> Advanced Settings doesn't count generated frames like RTSS does).

[Fixerb]

Much appreciated.. Thank you so much..

[tanmay]

Thanks. I added fsr 3 mod on top of this settings for improved motion fludity. Didnt mind the latency as it is very slow pacing game

[tomthomas]

For effect, using standard, i notice pixelated aliasing particularly around senua's face like eyebrow, using high this effect reduced dramatically.

[v_mxxm]

Thank you now i can play this game at 4k 👌

[Jakiyyyyy]

Impressive work! Have you slept already? You can still disable the Chromatic Aberration, Film Grain and Motion Blur inside the config file. I hope you will cover that too. 🤷‍♀

[jesseomollo]

This give you an idea of what witcher 4 and remake will look like. Maybe slightly less graphicaly intensive as hellblade since its an open world game.

[chincemagnet]

Lossless scaling frame gen seems to work pretty well if you can’t run it with DLSS or whatever for any reason. I’m currently running FSR native AA, and getting between 80-100 FPS with max settings and lossless scaling 2x frame gen. Chose to keep max settings, I don’t necessarily agree with the assessment of the shadows and other advanced settings.