Some Helpful Game Tweaks!!!!

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Make Sure you have the latest graphics drivers for your graphics card!
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For AMD Graphics cards drivers needed are Catalyst 14.4.
For Nvidia Graphics cards drivers needed are GeForce 335.23.

Adding Antialiasing to your game!
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If you wish to Enable Multisampling Antialiasing (MSAA) in your game you will need to find the Executable and right click it and Select Properties. Add the following to the end of the "Target" field:
+r_multisamples 4 (Enter a value 2-16 depending on what appeals to you.)

Skip Intro Videos at Games launch!
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Find the Executable and right click it and Select Properties. Add the following to the end of the "Target" field:
+com_skipIntroVideo 1

Bad Performance In the Game!!
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Disable The Screen Space Reflections setting and you should see a huge increase in frame rates.

Reducing The Shadow Resolution can Increase performance in your Frame Rates. Halving this from 8196 to 4098 can see huge performance gains up to 50% as well.
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Graphic tweaks for Optimal Performance.
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Display Mode: Fullscreen.

Monitor: 1.

Resolution: default.

Vertical Sync: Disabled. Game seems to work better with this option turned disabled.

FOV: Set it to 100. Anything lower than 100 and you may experience texture popping, the textures will appear with delay when you turn around. Even if you set it to 100, it won’t affect the framerate.

Advanced Options button.

VT Cache size: high.

VT Compress: enabled.

Max PPF: 16.

Shadow Resolution: 2048.

Depth of Field: medium.

Screen-Space Reflections: Disabled.

Additional quality settings: Medium.

Haze Flare: Disabled. Performace may go down with this option being enabled.

Hope this Helps!!!

[Dirty Dan]

Any commands that refer to DOF, Hands FOV, anything besides texture filtering/size are locked out. HUD bindings and FOV bindings work. Here are the commands i currently have in my wolfconfig.cfg

g_permaInfiniteAmmo "1"
g_permaGodMode "1"
vt_useCudaTranscode "1"
vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly2 "8192"
vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly "8192"
vt_pageImageSizeUnique "8192"
vt_uncompressedPhysicalImages "1"
r_fullscreenWindowed "1"
r_mode "21"
image_anisotropy "16"
image_useCompression "0"
vt_maxPPF "128"
vt_lodbias "-2"

Also to get good performance, i set Texture to Ultra (High), PPF to 64 ingame but to 128 in conifg, Shadows to 2048, SSR to Medium or High (in certain areas is intensive) DOF to Medium as it also is intensive and crap. Haze effect to off as it is very intensive and crap. Extra effects to off as the AA Filtering is forced through config. You can also force AA but r_multisamples 4-16. the perma lines are cheats.

Directory is

User\Saved Games\MachineGames\Wolfenstein The New Order\base

If you have any questions or find any other discoveries, just hit me up

You can also add commands to your shortcut with the +com prefix. Here are mine.

"C:\Games\Wolfenstein The New Order\WolfNewOrder_x64.exe" +com_skipIntroVideo 1 +com_allowConsole 1 +com_maxfps 120 +r_swapInterval 1 +vt_maxPPF 64 +vt_pageImageSizeUnique 8192 +vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly 8192 +vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly2 8192 +

Engine is capped at 60fps ingame, so there goes trying out my new 144hz monitor. SweetFX at the moment also does not work due to the game being OpenGL. Despite what most people have thought, iDTech 5 is OpenGL based. No DirectX.

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[Seth]

Seriously there's no way to shut down the ridiculous DOF???
I've been looking everywhere for the cvars but if it's locked out...

Because that's what it does in interior.

http://i.imgur.com/edw78Cb.jpg

It's awful AND it takes up ressources.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

Why are nearly all player character short sighted lately?

Is it because video game dev are all short sighted that they think that's how the world actually look like or something?

And why oh why put the freaking option in the menu IF YOU CAN'T TURN IT OFF???

[MikeLyno]

I agree with not having an option to turn off Depth of Field as I also can't stand the blur. It's usually one of the first settings I disable in games if I can.

[Mean Machine]

Originally posted by Seth:

Seriously there's no way to shut down the ridiculous DOF???

http://i.imgur.com/edw78Cb.jpg

What the hell is wrong with these people?

Why are nearly all player character short sighted lately?

Is it because video game dev are all short sighted that they think that's how the world actually look like or something?

And why oh why put the freaking option in the menu IF YOU CAN'T TURN IT OFF???

Maube because of the console market ... who knows ..maybe some stupid chief editor decided it that way ... anyway, couldn't agree more with you. And with this game they killed anything from the wolfenstein world.

[synixtrix]

Originally posted by Seth:

Seriously there's no way to shut down the ridiculous DOF???
I've been looking everywhere for the cvars but if it's locked out...

Because that's what it does in interior.

http://i.imgur.com/edw78Cb.jpg

It's awful AND it takes up ressources.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

Why are nearly all player character short sighted lately?

Is it because video game dev are all short sighted that they think that's how the world actually look like or something?

And why oh why put the freaking option in the menu IF YOU CAN'T TURN IT OFF???

To get rid of the DOF effect follow these steps.
Create a shortcut to the games exe, r-click on it, go to properties and paste this after the text in the Target text field, +com_allowConsole 1, then press apply, so it should look something like this( "C:\Program Files (x86)\Wolfenstein.The.New.Order\WolfNewOrder_x64.exe" +com_allowConsole 1 ), this enables the console in game.
Then when in the game pause it and press "Ctrl + ~" to open the console, then type this,
cvaradd r_postprocessdofmode 1, and press enter. This should do it, it did for me.
Hope this is useful.
Here is the page I got this info from.
http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/page/blog/_/features/port-reports/pc-report-wolfenstein-the-new-order-r141

[Donder]

About the skipping intro videos: I want to launch it within Steam, therefore I don't have a shortcut to be able to modify the Target field. Anyone know of another way to skip the intro videos?

[margalus]

you can set all these in steam, just like was described

[Mezlo]

@Donder - In the Steam client, right-click the game, click Properties, then Set Launch Options. Type in your desired options there.

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Thanks for this.

[СняιѕВаяđ]

Hey guys, this game is the only game which I can only play for a few minutes before the display driver stops working and the game becomes unresponsive. No issues with any other games (crashes). Any hints at what might be wrong? I use Windows 8.1 with latest updates. I've used older 14.4 AMD driver while now I am on the latest 14.9 for the R9 290 both drivers leading to the same result. Thanks

[Krotow (LV)]

Originally posted by Dirty Dan:

Any commands that refer to DOF, Hands FOV, anything besides texture filtering/size are locked out. HUD bindings and FOV bindings work. Here are the commands i currently have in my wolfconfig.cfg
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Thank you about those lines. I will check them out. Current id5tech version definitely has some nasty bug which looks as slowing down the movement of the main character and AI characters to approx. 60% of normal speed after couple minutes of playing. Maybe this can fix slowdown at some part.

Originally posted by Dirty Dan:

Despite what most people have thought, iDTech 5 is OpenGL based. No DirectX.

If you are right then thanks God. It means that we can hope to see the native ports of game on Linux and MacOS X in foreseeable future. Which will be cool for me, because I hate to reboot in Windows only to play something, that is not compatible with Linux.

[fudoshinkan]

how to change shadow resolution_ there is no such setting.

[fudoshinkan]

i give up even on lowest resolution and lowest quality it keeps lagging... i am so close to playable..

i am outdoors in the yard where there is a lot of nature.. and i think it might not be the bes place to be .. because the game becomes so slow

[fudoshinkan]

i wrote thsi in console and now the game runs like crap
how can i fix it_
r_multisamples 16