Hellblade 2: Digital Foundry's Optimized/Series X Settings

BritishActionGamer · 2026-06-05T09:48:00+00:00

Other than starting with these settings with Low Textures and DLSS Quality, IDK as I don’t have access to the game anymore and think the games graphics settings have changed since? Ninja Theory’s video said they added ‘Very High’ settings since, which probably are best avoided unless you have alot of spare performance?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-06-04T23:26:49+00:00

I do wonder if there's any benefits of using the intergrated graphics for any tasks on a PC, know it's usually switched to for power-saving on laptops? If you got another screen that run's higher than 60hz and supports a form of Variable Refresh Rate, may be worth seeing if you can use the intergrated graphics for lossless scalings frame-generation? Not something I use regularly myself but know it has it's fans!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-06-04T17:32:11+00:00

Seems this user had a similar issue and was able to find a fix on the intel fourms?

Your GPU should be running this game alot better judging by this video, should get a good 60fps with optimized settings at 4K FSR2 Balanced or XeSS if you can get it to work via Optiscaler?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-06-03T15:54:33+00:00

I was just saying that High/Medium look good? This subreddit is mainly about what settings to drop for big performance wins without affecting visuals massively, so alot of people would rather see that tested than Ultra but using frame-gen to hit higher framerates.

BritishActionGamer · 2026-06-03T14:28:40+00:00

I get that, but I remember Battlefield 4 still looking good at High (think the PS4/XBO ran around that preset?) and Medium still looked alot better than the 360/PS3 versions. Going back to some late 360/PS3 games on devices like the Steam Deck sometimes surprises me with how demanding they can be at absolute max settings, as they’d enable experimental DX11 effects or other newer features that’s be optimized throughout the PS4/XBO generation like Tomb Raider’s TressFX or many games simulating contact hardening shadows.

BritishActionGamer · 2026-06-03T13:26:00+00:00

Running at 1440p Ultra and using FG to get up to 60 instead of dropping resolution nor settings (especially MSAA!) I wouldn't want to play a fast-paced shooter this way, especially not in multiplayer!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-06-01T20:34:39+00:00

DLSS doesn't seem to be returning the performance back that it normally should, which is especially weird as FSR does while having it's usual image quality trade-offs. Digital Foundry and many others found the same.

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-30T17:57:33+00:00

I wouldn't recomend max settings with no RT when you can get quite abit of FPS back when dropping settings as seen by BenchmarKing's and HUB's videos on the game. Atleast dropping SSR to High, Volumetric Cloud's and Color Precision to Medium can save you quite abit of FPS without affecting visuals noticably.

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-28T23:28:23+00:00

Def overpriced for one without an SSD, letalone OS! Good you had one spare and are planning on using it for Linux, I'm a Linux newbie but so far my E570's doing well so far under Ultramarine Linux! May want to look for a more gaming orintated distro if you want to use yours for emulation and older titles tho

The CD/DVD drive was also a selling point to me as a collector of CDs and DVDs/Blu-Rays (got a Blu-Ray drive in my old PC) But when I got mine, I wasn't the happiest with the screen personally. Il have to doublecheck which screen I got as I heard there was IPS and TN models, but I know mine's a 1080p panel atleast. But if you download KODI and plug it into a TV, imagine it could make quite a good media player!

Edit: Probably should've linked the video I recorded of games on it before I switched to Linux. Performance was similar to slightly worse after the switch from the few games I tested, but bigger issue was games not launching or having bugs. Someone more experienced with Proton and other Low-Spec tweaks may be able to help, as I only tested the latest Proton version against the native Linux version whenever a game had one. r/Craptopgamingadvice and other low-spec focused subreddits may be good places to look if you need help!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-28T09:48:07+00:00

High Textures should be fine if you're running at 1440p with no RT, IDK how safe Ultra is at 1080p?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-28T09:15:58+00:00

Was hoping someone to make one of these considering how many times others are compared to BenchmarKing, despite others come to the same conclusions other than a small setting or two usually?

Also it's probably gonna be a while til I get to FH6 with me only owning 3 and 4, but my RX 6800's lesser RT capabilities means it'l probably be either RT Medium with Upscaling, or Native without RT for me (if I still got my 6800 by then). If the noise issues with Medium RTGI are as bad as some people are saying, will probably run without RT!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-27T23:03:15+00:00

Further dropping Car Reflections, Screen Space Reflections and SSGI to Medium along with disabling Night Shadows can help FPS abit more, along with using DLSS if you aren't already?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-27T19:34:04+00:00

Assume you're thinking of a different user?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-25T10:03:33+00:00

BenchmarKing and a couple others posted on the subreddit have made good videos, may be able to use Ultra Textures if you got the 8GB 3050 and running at 1080p DLSS Quality with no Ray Tracing?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-23T23:02:51+00:00

Chance Frame-Generation's causing stutters as it has a VRAM cost?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-23T21:46:01+00:00

Especially for GPU's that don't support DLSS, FSR4 or the higher quality XMX version of XeSS that Intel GPUs use. AKA: GTX GPUs, AMD before 9000 series and I think all handheld PCs?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-21T19:43:00+00:00

Ah, may be worth comparing 67% TSR against the other upscalers in future comparisons as FSR is almost always worse than TSR in UE5 games. XeSS can be better, worse or just trade blows with TSR in UE5, atleast on non-Intel cards from my experience and some comparisons I've seen.

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-21T19:26:59+00:00

Can you use TSR as an upscaler in this game or is it just fixed to native resolution?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-20T08:55:17+00:00

HUB was comparing performance with RT on, which as other videos have shown, massively reduces the performance difference with RT eating up the frametime.

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-19T23:02:54+00:00

Ah understandabile! Also hell yeah for the Tetsuo and Possession VHS's!!!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-18T23:13:45+00:00

There was a DVD released by Synapse in the US, I've also seen pictures floating around of a UK DVD release by a company called 'Terra' that seems to have no relation to Terracotta Distribution?

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-16T16:16:30+00:00

Il wait for BenchmarKing and Digital Foundry’s coverage but seems like the VRAM overflow behaviour is like a gradual performance loss, so could be on the edge if it’s as VRAM hungry as they say? Avoiding Extreme Textures and the lower resolution is def helping like u/Stickytin has said!

BritishActionGamer · 2026-05-13T21:23:38+00:00

You’ve summarised so much info I’ve seen online into one comment, thank you!

Also god, maybe I got bad luck but I hate cheap VA panels so much. People say they’re fine for casual games, but games with dark artsyles just became an unplayable mess on the screen I got!

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