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The Blood of Dawnwalker - best settings to tweak
The recommended specs are a little over-generous so here are the settings I reckon you can compromise to gain some extra performance.
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The Blood of Dawnwalker is a punishing game. And not just because of the divisive time-as-a-resource-to-be-managed side of things (or the almost impossible to resist desire to shift 'the' around in the title) but because it will slay your PC in terms of performance. We've covered the fact that in order to hit any of the performance level system requirements you have to enable upscaling in Balanced mode, but it's also worth noting that those system requirements are a little generous, too.
I've been testing Dawnwalker for the past week or so, with a few different setups, and in those forests of Carpathia you're going to either need some more beefy hardware to hit Rebel Wolves' proposed frame rate targets or compromise on those graphics settings.
Which is where I'm coming in here, aiming to help you get the highest frame rate out of your rig without sacrificing the actual look of the game.
And, actually The Blood of Dawnwalker does pretty well even down at the lower end of the graphics settings, still looking relatively crisp and with a detailed open world for you to explore to your vampyric heart's content.
As a representative system, I've picked out Rebel Wolves' mid-range spec, the one designed to net you 60 fps at 1440p. That's an Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics card, with an eight-core AMD CPU at its heart, of which I've selected the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X. This should theoretically be enough to get you that 60 fps target using the High preset in the games.
Nvidia RTX 2060 Super / GTX 1070 Ti / AMD RX 5700 / Intel Arc A750
Dropping that DLSS setting down to Performance—essentially running the game at 720p—will only net you another 6 fps on average
But that is very much going to depend on where you are. Right from the outset you will find yourself running around the dense forests, either with a sword in your hand or with fangs and claws at the ready. And those forests immediately tank your frame rates.