Certain settings in Ghostwire: Tokyo can be tweaked to make the gameplay experience smoother for new players on Xbox. Ghostwire: Tokyo makes its way to its home console Xbox today after a year of exclusivity on PlayStation 5.
Tango Gamerworks' first-person action game Ghostwire: Tokyo initially launched last year on PlayStation to decent reception. Xbox bought Bethesda in 2021 but respected the publisher's pre-existing timed exclusivity deals that saw two of Bethesda's games, Arkane's critical darling Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo, release on PS5 first. Since Tango Gameworks has been part of Xbox's family of first-party studios for two years now, many Xbox fans have been waiting for Ghostwire:Tokyo to finally land on the platform. With the ghost-slaying Tokyo adventure making its Xbox homecoming debut today, many first-time players are disappointed with how the game performs and controls on Xbox Series X. Luckily, there are a few tricks in the game's settings players can take advantage of to help improve the experience for now.
Pure Xbox pointed to several players on Twitter and Reddit who have found some temporary solutions for Ghostwire: Tokyo players on Xbox that are struggling with frame drops and input lag. One of the solutions mentioned for subpar performance is using the HFR (High Frame Rate) performance mode graphics setting with VSync turned on. The combination of the game's highest performance mode and VSync, which reduces horizontal screen tearing, seems to be a viable solution for players until Tango hopefully addresses this problem with a patch.
Ghostwire: Tokyo's first-person combat is deep and can be quite fast-paced. For a game like this to feel satisfying the controls need to be smooth, quick and precise. Players who are facing issues with sluggish input can try turning motion blur off and turning the maximum camera acceleration and deceleration speed up to 100. For even tighter controls players can adjust the dead zone of the right stick to 4 or 5. Other camera sensitivity changes that could be made are for Ghostwire's ranged bow and arrow draw to be set to 38 and general aiming to be set to 60. Setting the X and Y camera axes to 50 and 40 respectively may also help.
Many modern video games require players to choose between visual fidelity and smoother frame rate, but it's not optimal for players to have to stick to one and adjust an array of sensitivity settings for the game to feel playable; these solutions are merely a band-aid. Hopefully, Tango Gameworks has a patch in the works for Xbox players that will permanently stabilize Ghostwire Tokyo's performance and make for an overall smoother and more enjoyable adventure through the streets of Tokyo, but nothing has been confirmed as of now.
Ghostwire: Tokyo is available now for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Source: Pure Xbox
