Simple Optimisation and Quality Engine ini
Quick and easy ini + game settings.
Made this after going through various different Engine inis and finding that half the stuff either is irrelevant, doesnt work, or makes stuff worse.
Improves performance and certain visual elements whilst keeping as much quality as possible.
What it Does? (Each section noted in ini file)
Basic performance tweaks curtosey of qmqz these are the only ones that are required that seemingly improve frametimes but not nessecarily overall framerate.
Improved LOD for Textures and Foilage but still odd pop in (You can improve the foliage pop and texture distance by adding the line foliage.ForceLOD=0 to [System Settings] but you will take a roughly 20fps hit and will still pop at long distance)
Increased Shadow Quality
Cleaner Lumen Reflections and Scopes reflect world elements (NPCs and certain objects wont reflect in scope)
Exposure transition adjustment and blooming reduction when looking outside from interiors.
Disables Vignette (for standing only, if you want to remove crouch vignette grab the mod )
Disables Chromatic Aberration
Enables multicore render for audio (Not sure if this one is placebo but less pops and drops in the audio, might be patch 1.0.2 though)
Enables Raw Input for Mouse and disables smoothing
Install
Drop file into – C:\Users\~youruser~\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows
My System Specs
5800x3d
32GB 3800mhz CL14 Ram
4090
Display Settings
1440p
Fullscreen Exclusive
240fps Cap
VSync – off
In game optimised settings for visuals / performance (BenchmarKing youtube).
Texture Quality – Epic
Hair – Medium (or Low)
Object Details – Epic
Effects Quality – Epic
Materials – Epic
Post Processing Epic
Anti Aliasing – Epic
Motion Blur – Off / 0% (Preference)
Depth of Field – Low (Prefrence)
Light Shafts – Enabled
Sharpness – 24% (Preference)
Upscaling Method – DLSS (For AMD use FSR and reduce sharpening to 20%)
Upscaling Quality – DLAA (Can use quality for more frames) (For AMD use Native AA/Quality)
DLSS Frame Gen – On (For AMD FSR)
Shading Quality – Medium
Global Illumination – High
Reflections – Epic
Shadow Quality – High
Clouds – Medium
Fog – Epic
Sky – High
Foliage Quality – High
Enviroment Draw Distance – Epic
No mods used apart from ‘Remove Crouch Vignette’
This gets me 120-200 fps depending on the area very playable with the odd hitch. (Steam FPS counter top left of pics)
If any other tweaks come out that are good / work that i see i will add to newer versions.
