Age of Wonders 4 – Guaranteed 60 FPS Performance Fix

Wondering why others are getting 60 FPS on max settings with the same hardware but you’re not? Now you (Sort of) know!

Performance Fix to Get 60 FPS

Guide

Tested on a GTX 1060 3GB Era PC

Im not entirely sure why this works but im assuming there’s some sort of bug with the graphics settings, if a dev could leave some input then let us know!

My theory is that it has to do with the lighting or particle effects as my frames would tank on the main menu or anytime there were heavy particle effects on screen.

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Step By Step Tutorial

1. Start the game, set “Quality Mode” to Low, then click the left arrow to set “Quality Mode” to Custom
2. Open C:\Users\USER NAME\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Age of Wonders 4\Config\PlatformSettings0.cfg
3. Replace everything inside with the fix below.
4. Start the game and set the graphics where you want them.
5. Never touch “Quality Mode” again or you will have to redo all the steps.
6. Enjoy!

Audio.BackgroundSound=true
GraphicsOptions.AmbientOcclusionQuality=3
GraphicsOptions.AntiAliasMode=3
GraphicsOptions.BloomEnabled=false
GraphicsOptions.DepthOfFieldEnabled=false
GraphicsOptions.EdgeBlurEnabled=false
GraphicsOptions.EditorQualityMode=0
GraphicsOptions.IBLQuality=0
GraphicsOptions.LightingQuality=0
GraphicsOptions.QualityMode=6
GraphicsOptions.ReflectionsEnabled=true
GraphicsOptions.RenderScale=1.000000
GraphicsOptions.ShadowQuality=3
GraphicsOptions.SoftParticlesEnabled=true
GraphicsOptions.SoilCoverQuality=3
GraphicsOptions.TerrainQuality=2
GraphicsOptions.TextureQuality=2
GraphicsOptions.VolumetricsEnabled=true
Video.DiagnosticVideo=false
Video.DisplayAdapterID=-1
Video.DisplayAdapterName=
Video.DisplayOutputName=0
Video.DriverWorkaround=true
Video.FocusFPSLimitEnabled=false
Video.FullScreenH=1080
Video.FullScreenW=1920
Video.FullScreenX=0
Video.FullScreenY=0
Video.RefreshRate=60.000000
Video.ResourceAliasingWorkaround=false
Video.SafeAreaRatio=1.000000
Video.VSyncRate=1
Video.WindowMode=1
Video.WindowedScreenH=1080
Video.WindowedScreenMaximized=true
Video.WindowedScreenW=1920
Video.WindowedScreenX=0
Video.WindowedScreenY=0