Last updated: 5 September 2026

Onimusha: Way of the Sword Best PC Settings for Performance

Way of the Sword's PC version is unusually well-behaved for a big-budget action game at launch — independent testing found it running smoothly across a broad range of hardware without stutter. That still leaves a few settings worth adjusting if you want more headroom, especially at 1440p and 4K.

01The Game Runs Fine on Modest Hardware

Testing across a wide GPU range found every card handling 1080p comfortably, with even an older RTX 2080 Ti averaging 78 FPS. At 1440p, top-tier cards ran smoothly and paired well with adaptive sync, while mid-range cards such as the RX 6900 XT averaged around 68 FPS with occasional dips below 50. At 4K, top-end cards (RTX 4090/5080/5090, RX 9070 XT/7900 XTX) maintained 60+ FPS with sync enabled. If your GPU sits solidly mid-range, you shouldn't need to chase every setting down to Low — the game is not built to demand a high-end rig.

02Drop Ray Tracing First

Ray tracing is the single highest-impact setting on frame rate, and testers found the visual improvement it adds genuinely difficult to spot in most scenes, even in shadow-heavy areas. Unless you're specifically chasing screenshot-quality lighting, turning ray tracing down from High to Medium — or off entirely — is the best FPS-per-visual-quality trade in the settings menu.

03Turn On Upscaling Before You Touch Anything Else

Way of the Sword supports NVIDIA DLSS with multi-frame generation and AMD FSR 3.1. Enabling upscaling — Balanced mode with sharpness set to a moderate value works well — recovers a meaningful chunk of performance while keeping image quality close to native, which is a better first move than manually cutting several individual settings. Treat upscaling as your primary performance lever, and only start trimming other settings if you're still short of your target frame rate after enabling it.

04What Else to Lower if You Need More Headroom

After ray tracing and upscaling, the next settings worth reducing for performance, roughly in order of impact-to-visual-cost ratio, are:

• Shadow quality — drop from High to Medium or Low for a solid gain with limited visual cost outside of close inspection.
• Volumetric fog quality — lower from High to Medium; it's atmospheric more than functional.
• Texture quality — only worth reducing if you're VRAM-limited, since it costs memory more than raw GPU time.
• Motion blur and vignette — these have essentially no performance cost either way, but turning them off is worth doing for clarity regardless of your frame rate target.
• Sky/cloud quality — a low-impact setting on results, safe to keep at Low if you're squeezing out every frame.

Keep textures and meshes reasonably high if your VRAM allows it — texture pop-in is more noticeable than most of the settings above. Capcom's official spec sheet requires Windows 11, DirectX 12 and a 50GB SSD install with 16GB of system RAM across every tier. Minimum targets 1080p at 30 fps on a GTX 1660 (6GB) / RX 5500 XT (8GB) with a Core i5-8400 / Ryzen 3 3100; Recommended targets 1080p at 60 fps (with upscaling on) on an RTX 2060 Super (8GB) / RX 6600 (8GB) with a Core i5-10400 / Ryzen 5 3600. Capcom's sheet also lists higher High and Ultra presets for 1440p/4K play for players with more headroom to spare.