Overview
Hi there, as you might know, this is the kind of post that is dedicated for the people with low end pc’s
Disclamer
Back Up your files before editing it or replacing it, as if you don’t, you might have to download the game again and that is a pain in the ass, so, be carefull with those ini files.
About The Specs
First off, i’ll introduce to my pc specs, the potato masher which i made the experiment with.
It is a laptop HP pavilion G7 series
AMD A8 4500m APU Cuad Core 1.9 Ghz with turbo up to 2.8 Ghz (But in Task mannager never goes more than 2.3 Ghz on turbo clock speed)
AMD Radeon HD 7640g
Ram 4 Gig ddr3 at 1066 Mhz
The Key Parameter
Since you came here last time, i was reading comments about the tweak not working for some people, well, there is an story about why, but since i know you want to get to the point, i’ll leave the old way and the actual way to apply the text file, so it works all right.
The file that needs to be tweaked is REDSystemSettings.ini, that file is on your Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator directory, under REDGame
SteamSteamappscommonGUILTY GEAR Xrd -REVELATOR-REDGameConfig
Update: If for any reason the game refuses to aknoledge the redsystemsetting file, we have to look for another file located in this folder.
SteamSteamappscommonGUILTY GEAR Xrd -REVELATOR-EngineConfig
Here you will encounter another file that probably is overwriting everything with the redsystemsetting.ini, that file is called BaseSystemSettings.ini, and that file needs to be modyfied too, in order to tweak the graphics so you gain more performance in game.
Both files are exactly the same setting and structure, so what i will tell you next, can apply for both files as well……sorry for taking to long to understand how it works, as i’m not an developer on an expert in those matters.
As known in the other guide on Xrd Sigh by DevaL, many effects play an important role in gaining FPS, but the ace in the hole is one key value, that one is…
FloatingPointRenderTargets=True
This parameter, when changed to false will boost performance up to 10 fps, so, keep this in mind, the downside…..no shadows below characters, also no Bloom for some reason (even if you leave it Bloom=True in the config file section…..but as you might have a low end PC, it will be a minimal set back.
This is how must be set.
FloatingPointRenderTargets=False
Play with the rest
There are other parametters that you can play with, some like resolution, bloom, ambient occlusion, in fact, many of this setting can be turn to false in orther to gain minimal fps increments, but is up to you, to decide which ones will make a decent benefit for you.
Some of those are.
DirectionalLightmaps=False
MotionBlur=False
MotionBlurPause=False
DepthOfField=False
AmbientOcclusion=False
Bloom=True
bAllowLightShafts=False
Distortion=False
FilteredDistortion=False
DropParticleDistortion=False
SpeedTreeLeaves=False
SpeedTreeFronds=False
OnlyStreamInTextures=False
LensFlares=False
FogVolumes=False
FloatingPointRenderTargets=False
OneFrameThreadLag=False
UseVsync=False
UpscaleScreenPercentage=False
Fullscreen=True
AllowOpenGL=False
AllowRadialBlur=False
AllowSubsurfaceScattering=False
AllowImageReflections=True
AllowImageReflectionShadowing=False
bAllowSeparateTranslucency=False
bAllowPostprocessMLAA=False
bAllowHighQualityMaterials=False
Those are in my ini file alreaddy set to false so, no worries to play with those.
There is one parameter called DynamicLights, if you set that to False, The Stage floor will disapear (thanks to Shadowlet for the tip)
A note here: after saving the file, it is best to do right click and propieties to the file and set it as read only file, as if you have the game in 2 compurers, the ini will be overwriten the next time you play the game in your potato masher….
Keep in mind that in the game, you can go to option, Display Settings and set the first option (Image quality settings) to “performance”, the game will look more pixelated but it will help to squeeze 1 to 5 more FPS.
The tweaked file.
The file can be downloaded here.
Remember, this file can be replaced directly in to the REDGame/Config directory, or, you can change the name of the file to BaseSystemSettings.ini and replace the one in Engine/Config directory to take the performance effects.
[link]That’s all folks
This will not be a super guide, but i’m glad to help with this little discovery, and i hope this will be worth it for other guys like me, with crappy laptops XD.
Here a video testing my tweaks on the machine mentioned before
And, thanks for your attention.
I might have not the best english around, but if this guide helps you, then, i can’t be more happy for it.