The PC version of stealth action game "Dishonored 2" has encountered multiple performance issues since its release. Bethesda and Arkane Studios now aim to fix these issues with the release of its latest patch.

Steam patch update 1.3, which has now gone out of beta and has recently been made available to all Steam users, aims to improve the PC version's performance, offering general optimization improvements and resolution issues. An overview of the patch is shown below:

General performance and optimization improvements

Added a setting to turn OFF Camera Motion Blur

Additional mouse improvements

Fixed various issues related to user interface

Fixed various issues related to the Option menu

Fixed various issues related to multiple monitors

The latest patch has also enabled the option to turn off the camera motion blur, and has also included fixes for known issues such as a bug with multiple monitors where the game does not appear on the main monitor by default, and a bug which causes some UI to be misplaced when using 5:4 and 4:3 aspect ratios.

Here are some of the details of the update. For the full patch notes, check out the post on the Steam Community Forums.

Options

Added a setting to turn OFF Camera Motion Blur

Fixed a bug which caused some textures to be missing when Texture Quality was set above Medium for some GPUs

Fixed a bug where the game sometimes launched in the previously saved resolution in the top left corner of the screen

Display / Monitor

Fixed a bug with multiple monitors which caused the game to not display on the primary monitor by default

Fixed a bug which caused some UI elements to be misplaced when using 5:4 or 4:3 aspect ratios

Rendering / Performance

Fixed a rendering bug affecting the lighting on some NPCs which sometimes caused a red glow

FPS limiter set to 60 FPS by default

Adjusted Shadow Quality settings - "High" setting and below have a more significant visual and performance adjustment

Reduced performance impact of transparent surfaces & VFX

Mouse

Fixed a bug impacting mouse movement speed

Bethesda has also recommended users to update to NVIDIA driver 375.95 and AMD Driver 16.11.4 to avoid any other performance issues while playing "Dishonored 2."