Dishonored 2 Advanced Graphics Settings Revealed Alongside Launch Trailer

Arkane Studios is launching Dishonored 2 this very Friday (Thursday if you brave a pre-order), this time with two playable characters and more corpses to send your rat army to munch on than you can shake a bloodfly at. Unsurprisingly it's joined by a launch trailer. Even less surprising is it looks incredible. That's not all though, because we've got also got a look at Dishonored 2's graphics options and video settings, detailing every little tweak you can make in order get optimum performance in Dishonored 2.

Dishonored 2 Video Settings

• Screen resolution

• Windowed mode: Windowed, Fullscreen, Borderless windowed

• Brightness

• Field of vision: 65 > 110

• V-sync: Yes / No

• Adaptive resolution: 50% > 100%

• Nvidia HBAO+: Yes / No

 

• Presets: Auto; Very Low / Low / Medium / High / Very High / Ultra

• Texture details: Very Low / Low / Medium / High / Very High / Ultra

• Model details: Very Low / Low / Medium / High / Very High / Ultra

• Environment details: Very Low / Low / Medium / High / Very High / Ultra

• Water quality: Very Low / Low / Medium / High / Very High / Ultra

• View distance: Very Low / Low / Medium / High / Very High / Ultra

• Shadow quality: Very Low / Low / Medium / High / Very High / Ultra

• Decal quality: Very Low / Low / Medium / High / Very High / Ultra

• Fog quality: Very Low / Low / Medium / High / Very High / Ultra

• Anti-aliasing: Off / FXAA Low / FXAA High / TXAA 1x

• Bloom: No / Yes

• Depth of field: No / Yes

• Lens flare: No / Yes

• Volumetric lighting: No / Yes

• God Rays: No / Yes

• Rat shadows: No / Yes

• Bloodfly shadows: No / Yes

A very decent select of graphics options for Dishonored 2, all said and done. What is particularly interesting is there are a total of six presets. Normally we have three or four, but Arkane Studios has allowed for a very granular approach to visual settings. It does mean it could require a little more effort on your part to achieve desire performance but it does also allow you more accurately tune Dishonored 2’s graphics settings to the capability of your hardware.

All the anti-aliasing options are resource light but not terrible effective so there might be a slight blurriness to image quality. Your best bet here is to crank up the resolution as high as you can.

Rat shadows and bloodfly shadows seem to be extremely specific. It's unlikely these are going to be very noticeable at all so these probably be your first port of call when it comes to disabling settings.

We've seen with the original Dishonored that Arkane has a real knack doing a lot with a little, presenting beautiful environments through a unique artstyle and gorgeous lighting (on PC at least). Enabling God Rays and Volumetric Lighting is key to this, but the latter in particular is likely to be hugely demanding.

Fingers crossed we'll be able to put all these settings to the test for you tomorrow so keep your eyes peeled for a Dishonored 2 performance breakdown.

Ah, and the video I promised you. Feast your eyes on this little lovely.