Phantom Blade Zero players can get a 40% fps boost by turning off one setting

Phantom Blade Zero players can give the newly released Elden Ring-like action-adventure RPG a significant FPS boost on PC before jumping into the game, helping to improve the overall gameplay experience.

Phantom Blade Zero is a dark wuxia action RPG inspired by Chinese martial arts, and looks set to be an enjoyable experience for fans of Elden Ring and Black Myth: Wukong. You play as an assassin named Soul, who has just 66 days to live after being framed for his master's murder. Expect challenging combat, deadly enemies and bosses, and a visually stunning world filled with mysteries to uncover.

However, as fantastic as Phantom Blade Zero already plays and as much as it's been dominating Modern Warfare 4, if you game on PC, you can change a setting that could give you a whopping 40 frames-per-second boost.

Best Phantom Blade Zero PC settings for better performance

As reported by Wccftech, recent performance testing suggests that players can give Phantom Blade Zero a 39% FPS boost by using optimised graphics settings instead of the Ultra preset.

The testing revealed that, on the hardware used, the average framerate increased from 74fps to 103fpsat 1440p resolution. This improvement was achieved by changing several graphics settings rather than simply turning off a single option.

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Phantom Blade Zero, S-GAME Publishing

Which Phantom Blade Zero settings should you change?

Open the game's Settings menu, select 'Graphics', and find the visual and performance options. From there, change the following settings:

• High-Quality Hair: Off
• Shadow Quality: Very High
• Lighting Quality: High
• Effects Quality: High
• Material Quality: High
• View Distance: High
• Environment Detail Quality: Medium
• Anti-Aliasing Quality: Medium (TSR)
• Ray Tracing Quality: Off

Once you've made these changes, apply your new settings and return to the game.

How have players reacted to Phantom Blade Zero?

At the time of writing, on the PlayStation Store, Phantom Blade Zero has scored 4.75/5 from nearly 9,ooo user reviews. On the PC platform Steam, it’s rated “Very Positive” from well over 2,000 reviews. The aggregate website Metacritic has scored it 88.

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Here’s what we said about Phantom Blade Zero:

“Phantom Blade Zero exceeded my expectations. It’s got some teething problems, but I’m hopeful some post-launch patches can iron out any of the existing inconsistencies,” we said in our review, scoring it an “Exceptional” 9/10.

“Combat is obviously the game’s strongest aspect, and S-Game should be commended on the sheer variety on display here. There was never a dull moment, and I’m very impressed with how the game was balanced. It provides a worthy challenge while mitigating the stuff most players will find annoying, and if you’re still struggling, the difficulty can be adjusted.”

Phantom Blade Zero is out now on PC and PlayStation 5.