Posted June 05, 2019
Dear forum readers,
With the default settings this game is very demanding, and I found my humble GTX 880M reaching its throttling temperature of 93 degrees Celsius in less than five minutes. So I wanted to tune down some settings, but the game menus offer almost nothing in that respect.
You may see here and there, representatives of the publisher saying it's not possible yet, despite people asking for a long time, like it was complicated.
Truth is, the developers are either dead, or don't care. The nice thing with engines such as UE4 is that they take care of many things for the developers. Activating VSync for example, is almost always just a matter of asking the engine to do it, and the developers just have to code a check box for the end user to have it.
However, the developers didn't add the checkbox... But don't despair, you can do it yourself from the game console (use the usual "below-esc" button to bring it up, press twice to have it bigger).
To enable VSync, type : r.VSync 1
To make things easier, the Unreal Engine defines so-called "Scalability groups", affecting several related parameters at once, such as antialiasing, effects, post-processing, textures, draw distance. These can be referred to from the console too, with the prefix "sg.", so iirc, to turn off antialiasing type the following : sg.Antialiasing 0
Same goes for the other scalability groups. Just typing "sg." will show you all possibilities.
You can limit the FPS too, without having to resort to out-of-game frame limiters. Want to cap the FPS to 60 ? Type : t.MaxFPS 60
As for the other parameters, you may have noticed there's an auto-completion feature that will help you explore the possibilities, as well as some sort of a dump command that lists all commands (I don't remember the exact name, except that it starts with dump).
Hope this helps !
With the default settings this game is very demanding, and I found my humble GTX 880M reaching its throttling temperature of 93 degrees Celsius in less than five minutes. So I wanted to tune down some settings, but the game menus offer almost nothing in that respect.
You may see here and there, representatives of the publisher saying it's not possible yet, despite people asking for a long time, like it was complicated.
Truth is, the developers are either dead, or don't care. The nice thing with engines such as UE4 is that they take care of many things for the developers. Activating VSync for example, is almost always just a matter of asking the engine to do it, and the developers just have to code a check box for the end user to have it.
However, the developers didn't add the checkbox... But don't despair, you can do it yourself from the game console (use the usual "below-esc" button to bring it up, press twice to have it bigger).
To enable VSync, type : r.VSync 1
To make things easier, the Unreal Engine defines so-called "Scalability groups", affecting several related parameters at once, such as antialiasing, effects, post-processing, textures, draw distance. These can be referred to from the console too, with the prefix "sg.", so iirc, to turn off antialiasing type the following : sg.Antialiasing 0
Same goes for the other scalability groups. Just typing "sg." will show you all possibilities.
You can limit the FPS too, without having to resort to out-of-game frame limiters. Want to cap the FPS to 60 ? Type : t.MaxFPS 60
As for the other parameters, you may have noticed there's an auto-completion feature that will help you explore the possibilities, as well as some sort of a dump command that lists all commands (I don't remember the exact name, except that it starts with dump).
Hope this helps !
