Code Vein – Potato Mode via Engine Scalability

September 30, 2019 Volodymyr Azimoff 0

This will improve the performance of the game by loading lower quality assets at the cost of visual clarity and fidelity.

Let’s Get Right Into It

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You can see an example of this config here:

Before

After

Head over to

%localappdata%/CodeVein/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor/Scalability.ini

Replace it with this:

[AntiAliasingQuality@0]
r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=1
r.PostProcessAAQuality=1
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=0
r.ScreenPercentage=66.666666

[ViewDistanceQuality@0]
r.ViewDistanceScale=0.3333333 ; See less
r.SkeletalMeshLODBias=3 ; Animations lose quality sooner
r.StaticMeshLODDistanceScale=3 ; Static meshes always load worse LODs sooner

[ShadowQuality@0]
r.LightFunctionQuality=0
r.ShadowQuality=0
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades=1
r.Shadow.RadiusThreshold=0.5
r.DistanceFieldShadowing=0
r.DistanceFieldAO=0
r.VolumetricFog=0
r.CapsuleShadows=0
r.Shadow.MaxResolution=4
r.Shadow.MaxCSMResolution=4
r.Shadow.DynamicInsetShadowEnable=0
r.Shadow.TexelsPerPixel=1
r.Shadow.GridTextureSize=8

[PostProcessQuality@0]
r.MotionblurQuality=0
r.AmbientOcclusionMaxQuality=0
r.DistanceFieldAO=0
r.DistanceFieldGI=0
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0
r.RenderTargetPoolMin=512
r.LensFlareQuality=0
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0
r.EyeAdaptationQuality=0
r.BloomQuality=0
r.FastBlurThreshold=100
r.Upscale.Quality=0
r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=0
r.LightShaftQuality=0
r.Filter.SizeScale=0
r.Tonemapper.Quality=0
r.LightShaftNumSamples=0
r.ReflectionEnvironment=0

[TextureQuality@0]
r.TextureStreaming=1
r.MaxAnisotropy=0
r.Streaming.PoolSize=512
r.Streaming.HLODStrategy=0
r.Streaming.MaxEffectiveScreenSize=1296
r.Streaming.Boost=0
r.MipMapLodBias=15
r.Streaming.MipBias=15
r.Streaming.UsePerTextureBias=0
r.Streaming.LimitPoolSizeToVRAM=1
r.Streaming.ScaleTexturesByGlobalMyBias=1

[EffectsQuality@0]
r.TranslucencyLightingVolumeDim=1
r.RefractionQuality=0
r.SSR.Quality=0
r.SceneColorFormat=0
r.DetailMode=0
r.TranslucencyVolumeBlur=0
r.MaterialQualityLevel=0
r.SSS.HalfRes=1
r.SSS.Scale=0
r.SSS.SampleSet=0
r.SSS.Quality=0
r.EmitterSpawnRateScale=0.333333
r.ParticleLightQuality=0
r.DefaultFeature.AutoExposure=False

[FoliageQuality@0]
foliage.DensityScale=0.0
grass.DensityScale=0.0
r.ViewFoliageDistance=0.0

Make sure to set the file to Read-Only so the game does not modify it.

This works with the lowest settings.

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I love games and I live games. Video games are my passion, my hobby and my job. My experience with games started back in 1994 with the Metal Mutant game on ZX Spectrum computer. And since then, I’ve been playing on anything from consoles, to mobile devices. My first official job in the game industry started back in 2005, and I'm still doing what I love to do.