While Black Myth Wukong scales extremely well on low-end PC hardware (including handheld PCs such as the Steam Deck), there do exist a set of ‘optimized’ settings that must be taken into consideration for these devices.
Valve’s Steam Deck has been the dominant force in the handheld gaming PC space, thanks to its affordable pricing and adequate performance, for most last-gen titles. The handheld is starting to show its age though, with many AAA titles being borderline unplayable.
Black Myth Wukong on the Steam Deck runs surprisingly well however, thanks to developer Game Science’s optimization and upscaling options – all while maintaining respectable battery life.
Optimized Black Myth Wukong Steam Deck settings
In-game settings
- Display Mode: Borderless
- Display Resolution: 1280×800
- Framerate Cap: 60
- V-Sync: Off
- Motion Blur: Weak or Off
- Super Resolution: 50
- Super Resolution Sampling: FSR or TSR; TSR is generally recommended
- Frame Generation: Enabled
- View Distance Quality: Low
- Anti-Aliasing Quality: Low
- Post-Effects Quality: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Texture Quality: Low; Medium could work as well
- Visual Effect Quality: Low
- Hair Quality: Low
- Vegetation Quality: Low
- Global Illumination Quality: Low
- Reflection Quality: Low
Steam Deck specific settings
- Frame Rate Limit: 40 FPS; 40 FPS is for better battery life.
- TDP: 15 W
- Battery Drain: 20 to 25W. 3-4 hours expected average for battery life.
These set of optimized settings include a mostly Low preset with a heavy emphasis on performance over battery life. As always, Steam Deck OLED users should expect roughly twice the battery life as compared to the original, LCD version.
While it is possible to play the game with the Medium preset with Frame Generation disabled, it is generally not recommended to do so – given the performance tanks to 20 FPS or lower. The presets mentioned prior should give an output of 30-40 FPS, with minimal in-game stutter – with the Proton Experimental branch in use.
