Black Myth: Wukong gets a big performance update out now

Black Myth: Wukong might actually now be playable on the Steam Deck, with the latest update out now that focuses on performance. Pretty great to see developer Game Science still working to improve it after release!

What is it? Launched back in August 2024, Black Myth: Wukong is an incredible popular action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. It has a Very Positive rating on Steam from over 800,000 user reviews. According to Steam Top 250, it is the 13th most popular game of all time on Steam — really impressive.

Along with some bug fixes, there's a good few tweaks to the game to improve the performance including:

• Integrated AMD FSR4. On compatible hardware, it will be available in the in-game Settings after updating the driver and enabling FSR4 in the driver settings.
• Improved Compatible Mode. Now, with Compatible Mode enabled, ray tracing, frame generation, and some super-resolution functions will be temporarily disabled to help players avoid game launch failures caused by driver, hardware, or system abnormalities.
• Adjusted the default graphics settings for certain graphics cards to match the various graphical changes in the current game version.
• Significantly improved the lighting quality when Global Illumination is set to low, making it closer to the effect when Global Illumination is set to high.
• Improved CPU and rendering performance in numerous scenarios.
• Improved memory usage in numerous scenarios.
• Improved the quality of motion blur to mitigate the aliasing issues that occur when the camera pans.

The last update before this was back in April that added in NVIDIA DLSS 4.0 and Intel XeSS 2.0.