How to boost Ghost of Tsushima performance on PC

While Nixxes’ port for Ghost of Tsushima is nothing short of amazing, there exist certain technical issues that prevent the game from performing to its highest capacity on compatible PC hardware. The PSN Overlay, in particular, has caused nothing but grief to several players, which when coupled with the game’s removal from over 100 countries, has been controversial, to say the least.

Thankfully, a Steam user has managed to share a workaround, which allegedly boosts performance by up to 70%. Read on to learn more about this Ghost of Tsushima performance boost, and the steps required to enable it.

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Ghost of Tsushima performance boost workaround offers up to 70% performance uplift

Boost Ghost of Tsushima's performance on PC (Image via PlayStation)

As per Steam user The ViltsuZ, there are a set of simple steps that can boost Ghost of Tsushima performance across all PC hardware:

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Disabling Dynamic Resolution Scaling

• Using FSR 3 or DLSS as performance upscalers within games is quite common, and Ghost of Tsushima is no exception.
• Unfortunately, Ghost exhibits a strange bug in which the performance takes a massive hit while Dynamic Resolution Scaling is enabled.
• Since this is enabled by default, it is recommended that readers manually disable this option via the Settings menu.
• Choose between Balanced, Performance, and Quality profiles within your upscaler of choice to finalize.
• Start the game and you should immediately notice FPS gains.

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Deleting the PSP_SDK folder within the install directory

• To say that the PSN Overlay is controversial would be an understatement. Making matters worse, users have noticed a considerable FPS boost by deleting the files for the said overlay altogether.
• Simply bring up the install directory of the game, and run the PSPC installer (.msi) files to ensure the overlay files are present in the first place.
• Next, head to %programdata%/Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc within the Windows partition and delete the PSPC_SDK folder in its entirety.
• Boot up the game and you should notice a sizable performance uplift.

Both tweaks should allow for between 30% to 70% FPS gains within the game, as confirmed within a test system consisting of a GTX 1650 laptop; it gained approximately 10 frames per second on average.

The game being played on Linux (Image via PlayStation)

Interestingly, it appears Linux users are unaffected by the PSN Overlay issue. The game exhibited no changes in frame rate, delivering a solid 90-100 frames per second on an RX 6700 (10 GB) running on Arch Linux with a custom kernel.

Tweak and test settings to create the perfect balance between image quality and performance on your gaming PC.

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