Nioh 3 Handheld Performance Review 17

Nioh 3 Handheld Performance Review

Out-of-Box Experience »

Graphics Settings

  • The main visual settings menu includes options such as display mode, VSync, resolution, and so on.
  • You can only select "Windowed" and "Borderless" display modes; the game doesn't include a full-screen display mode for some reason.
  • You can pick between a variety of resolutions, including those not supported by your monitor.
  • The game doesn't support unlocked frame rates; you can only select between three frame rate cap options: 30, 60, and 120.
  • If your monitor has a refresh rate lower than 120 Hz, you can only choose between 30 and 60 frame rate caps.
  • You can play the game at 240 FPS, but only with frame generation.
  • The game includes five graphics presets in total: "Very Low," "Low," "Standard," "High," and "Very High."
  • The "Resolution Advanced Settings" submenu includes upscaling-related options.
  • The game includes support for FSR 3.1 (you can enable FSR 4 via driver override), DLSS, and XeSS 2.
  • Selecting any of the graphics presets also enables upscaling; you have to manually set rendering resolution to 100% to disable upscaling.
  • There are no upscaling presets, you can instead adjust rendering resolution from 25% to 100% in 5% increments.
  • The game includes a dynamic resolution setting (30, 45, 60, and 120 FPS); if you enable it you can freely adjust the minimum and maximum rendering resolution.
  • Nioh 3 supports FSR and DLSS frame generation, along with DLSS Multi Frame Generation.
  • You can mix and match upscalers and frame generation; for example, you can use XeSS upscaling along with FSR frame generation.
  • Unfortunately, you cannot adjust FOV.
  • The "Post Effects" menu allows you to adjust motion blur, chromatic aberration, and similar options.
  • You can fully disable most post effects including motion blur, chromatic aberration, and depth of field.
  • The fourth (!) graphics options menu, "Advanced Settings," is where you can tweak options such as shadow and texture quality, LOD, and more.
  • There's a plethora of settings to adjust, but most have very little effect on performance.
  • The only option we found that has a noticeable effect on performance is "Global Illumination."

Test Devices

We tested the public Steam release of Nioh 3.
  • The Steam Deck LCD was running SteamOS version 3.7.19, build 20251124.1.
  • Our ROG Ally X had the latest Armoury Crate version installed at the time of testing (2.1.20.0), along with BIOS 312.
  • The ROG Xbox Ally X had Armoury Crate 2.1.20.0 installed along with BIOS 314.
  • The ROG Ally with SteamOS was running SteamOS version 3.7.20, build 20260108.1.
Gaming Handhelds Used for Testing
Steam Deck LCDSteamOS version 3.7.19
build 20251124.1
ASUS ROG Ally XArmoury Crate 2.1.20.0
BIOS 312
GPU driver version: 32.0.22029.1019
Windows 11 Home 25H2
VBS disabled
ASUS ROG Ally Z1E with SteamOSSteamOS version 3.7.20
build 20260108.1
ASUS ROG Xbox Ally XArmoury Crate 2.1.20.0
BIOS 314
GPU driver version: 32.0.21025.27003
Windows 11 Home 25H2
VBS disabled
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