Nvidia Control Panel Settings (DO THESE FIRST)

Not all of these may be available to you depending on your system. In my experience, Vertical Sync is the biggest culprit.

 
01. Open the NVIDIA Control Panel and navigate to Manage 3D Settings 
 
02. Select the tab Program Settings and find Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. If you can not find it, click on Add and try to find it here. (try running the game first and close it down again if you can not find it) 
 
03. Under the dropdown called Select the preferred graphics processor for this program, select High-performance NVIDIA processor. This ensures that the game does not use your integrated GPU, which many people were reporting issues with 
 
04. Set Monitor Technology to G-SYNC (if applicable) 
 
05. Set Multi-Display/Mixed GPU Acceleration to Single display performance mode 
 
06. Set Preferred Refresh Rate to Highest available 
 
07. Disable Vertical Sync (or set it to Fast) 
 
08. Set Power Management Mode to Prefer maximum performance 
 
09. Set Texture filtering – Quality to Performance 
 
10. Enable Threaded Optimization 
 
11. Set Maximum pre-rendered frames to 1 
 
12. Apply the changes and navigate to Adjust desktop size and position 
 
13. Check the checkbox Override the scaling mode set by games and programs and click on Apply 
 
 

In-Game Settings

These adjustments are to establish a baseline, if Sekiro runs very good after you make these changes, you may be able to go back in and turn on Anti-aliasing and SSAO for example, or ramp up Medium settings to High.

 
01. Launch Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 
 
02. Click on Options and then Graphics Options 
 
03. Set Screen Mode to Fullscreen. 
 
04. Set Screen Resolution to your monitor’s native resolution. 
 
05. Set Quality Settings to High. 
 
06. You have the option of choosing Automatic Rendering Adjustment. If you have this at On, then the game will adjust the rendering automatically when the frame rate drops. I recommend turning this OFF and manually adjusting settings. 
 
07. Click on Advanced Settings 
 
08. Set Texture Quality to Max 
 
09. Set Antialiasing Application to Off. This setting has a high-performance impact. 
 
10. Set SSAO to Off. This setting has a high-performance impact. 
 
11. Set Depth of Field to Max 
 
12. Set Motion Blur to High 
 
13. Set Shadow Quality to Medium. This setting has a very high-performance impact. 
 
14. Set Lighting Quality to Max 
 
15. Set Effects Quality to Max 
 
16. Set Volumetric Quality to Max 
 
17. Set Reflections Quality to Medium 
 
18. Set Water Surface Quality to Medium 
 
19. Set Shader Quality to High 
 

Here we come to an end for Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice Fix Performance Issues for Sekiro on PC/Intel/Nvidia hope you enjoy it. If you think we forget something to include or we should make an update to the post let us know via comment, and we will fix it asap! Thanks and have a great day!