Black Myth: Wukong is one of the most visually demanding games released in recent years. It runs on Unreal Engine 5 with Lumen global illumination and Nanite geometry, which makes even high-end hardware work hard. These settings find the right balance between performance and retaining the game's exceptional visual quality.
Display Settings
Window Mode — Fullscreen.
Resolution — Native. Black Myth's visual detail is tied to resolution — running below native loses the fine geometry detail that makes environments impressive.
Frame Rate Limit — 60 or match your monitor refresh rate. Uncapped will push GPU to 100% usage constantly, causing thermal issues in long sessions.
Upscaling (Critical for Performance)
Black Myth: Wukong is one of the games where upscaling is essentially required on anything below an RTX 4090 or RX 7900 XTX at high settings.
| Upscaling Mode | Quality | FPS Gain |
|---|---|---|
| DLSS Quality | Excellent | +40–60% |
| DLSS Balanced | Good | +60–80% |
| FSR Quality | Good | +40–55% |
| TSR High | Good (no Nvidia required) | +30–45% |
Recommended: DLSS Quality (Nvidia) or FSR Quality (AMD/Intel). The visual difference from native at Quality mode is negligible in motion.
Graphics Settings
| Setting | Recommended |
|---|---|
| Global Illumination | Lumen (keep — defines the visual style) |
| Reflections | Screen Space (not Lumen — big performance cost for minimal gain) |
| Shadow Quality | High |
| Foliage Quality | Medium |
| Texture Quality | High |
| Effects Quality | Medium |
| Post-Process Quality | Medium |
| Hair Quality | Medium |
| Motion Blur | Off or Low |
| Depth of Field | Cinematic or Off (preference) |
| Film Grain | Off |
| Chromatic Aberration | Off |
Lumen Global Illumination is the single most impactful setting for visual quality in Black Myth. Disabling it drops the game from looking like a next-gen title to looking like a 2018 release. Keep it enabled.
Monitor Settings for Black Myth
Black Myth's environments range from bright outdoor mountain scenes to very dark temple interiors. The game has its own brightness/gamma calibration screen — complete it accurately before adjusting the monitor.
- Brightness — Use the in-game calibration. Do not compensate dark areas by raising monitor brightness
- Color Temperature — Neutral 6500K. The game's art direction uses accurate color throughout
- HDR — If your monitor is DisplayHDR 600+, enable it. Black Myth has HDR support and benefits noticeably in outdoor scenes
- Response Time — Medium. Black Myth is not a competitive game; overshoot artifacts from aggressive overdrive are more distracting than ghosting
Community Presets
For monitor OSD profiles from other Black Myth players, BestSettingsFor.com has presets organized by monitor model.
