Best Settings and Performance Guide for The Blood of Dawnwalker (PC)

The Blood of Dawnwalker is a heavy Unreal Engine 5 game, but between the settings Rebel Wolves patched in the first two weeks and a few launch-week workarounds that still hold, almost every PC can get it running smoothly. This page collects the settings worth touching, what Hotfixes 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 actually changed, and the performance work the studio has said is coming — without repeating the full bug-by-bug story covered on the troubleshooting page.

What Are the Best PC Settings to Start With?

Four settings do most of the work. Set the quality preset to High, not Ultra — launch testing consistently found Ultra’s extra cost buys little visual difference in this engine. Turn on upscaling: DLSS on NVIDIA cards or FSR on anything else, the single biggest frame-rate lever in UE5 games. Use Full Screen as your display mode, for reasons the next section explains. And cap the frame rate to a value your system holds steadily — a locked 60 beats a wobbling 75. The launch day guide covers these in first-session order; the short version is preset first, resolution second.

Which Settings Fix Stuttering?

Display mode first, drivers second. Stuttering specific to Windowed and Borderless was one of the three known issues in the official 1.0.2 notes, and the listed workaround — launch in Full Screen — still stands. The first patch-level help arrived with Hotfix 1.0.5 (September 10, 2026): improvements to the shader-compilation pipeline that the notes say “can fix stuttering issues for some users.” If stutter crept in after you modded the game, remove the mod files before touching settings — the community-documented dwmapi.dll pattern is on the troubleshooting page. Shader-compilation crashes are a separate issue with its own official answer (update your BIOS); settings will not fix that one.

What Did the Hotfixes Change for Performance?

Two patches, both PC-relevant:

Neither patch claims a console-side performance change — 1.0.5’s shader work was announced for Steam, and console players got their big win earlier, in the day-one patch’s 60 FPS mode. The itemized list for both patches, with official sources, is on the patch history page.

What Hardware Does This Game Need?

The official floor is a Core i5-11400F or Ryzen 7 2700X with a GTX 1060 / RX 580, 16 GB of RAM, and 60 GB on an SSD — a 1080p machine for the High preset with upscaling. The recommended tier moves to an i7-11700K / Ryzen 7 5700X with an RTX 4060-class card and 8 GB of VRAM. The one number to respect is the 6 GB VRAM floor: UE5 is unforgiving about it, and no settings combination substitutes for the missing memory. Full tables are on the PC system requirements page.

What Performance Updates Are Planned?

Rebel Wolves has publicly committed to its first major update in early October, and press coverage of the studio’s announcements — including PC-focused outlets — reports it bundles performance improvements alongside the combat rework and a new easier difficulty option. Nothing performance-related has shipped since Hotfix 1.0.5, so treat specific claims about what the update will change as unconfirmed until the notes land. When it ships, the patch history page will have the itemized list, and this page gets re-tested against it.

Where Do the Official Notes Live?

• The 1.0.2 known-issues list and workarounds — the game’s official site, summarized on the troubleshooting page.
• The Hotfix 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 announcements — Steam community announcements, linked per-patch on the patch history page.
• The October update scope — press coverage of Rebel Wolves’ communications; this page links the primary notes once they exist.