Nioh 3 Steam demo runs well on an aging RTX 3060 rig, PC Gamer says

Nioh 3 now has a pre-release Steam demo, and PC Gamer’s Shaun Prescott reports it runs surprisingly well on his aging PC rig. Prescott notes Team Ninja’s recent PC launches have often been problematic: Rise of the Ronin arrived with stuttering, frame-rate issues and crashes, the studio apologized over Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty’s poor PC performance, and Nioh 2 also had a rough launch.

On Prescott’s test machine — an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 with 6GB VRAM, a Ryzen 5 5600H and 16GB RAM — the demo delivered a mostly smooth 60 fps at 1080p with most settings on "very low," though open-world areas occasionally dipped to around 44 fps. Enabling FSR 3 frame generation improved results: Prescott could switch to "low" graphics rather than "very low" and maintain 60 fps, and on "standard" he hovered between 55 and 60 fps in the open world, with similar results on "high." He cautions that Nioh games demand precision and some players may find any added input latency unacceptable; Prescott didn’t notice dramatic input lag playing the demo, but the article stresses it is early days.

PC Gamer highlights this as the first pre-release demo for a major Team Ninja release and urges players to try it and play through to the open world; Prescott also confirmed the demo is not suitable for Steam Deck OLED.

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