How to fix smoke and fire FPS drops on higher graphical settings

Company of Heroes 24 · 32 ratings1.2k views30 favorites1 min readby AplerUpdated Feb 26, 2022View on Steam ↗

Introduction

Shader programmers didn't write capable shaders for smoke and fire. Instead of letting users lower this one options they are forcing to play on lowest graphical settings to it become also lowest value. Forced to play with visually terrible game.

How to fix this

  1. Set graphical settings to Ultra.
2. Open folder:
%userprofile%\Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes 2
3. Open configuration_system.lua with notepad.
  1. Set value to 0 for effectsdensity.
    Enjoy smooth experience with good looking game.

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