What is the difference between Epic and Cinematic graphic settings, please?

[FroBodine]

Just curious if Cinematic is the highest quality, and what changes from Epic.

[DanT]

Cinematic is the highest quality.

The short answer is lots of stuff changes between the two profiles (all the unreal defaults from 4.27, lots of good reading here https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/TestingAndOptimization/PerformanceAndProfiling/Scalability/ScalabilityReference/)

The long answer is exactly these things change

Epic https://pastebin.com/rLdMCywh
Cinematic https://pastebin.com/ggwueVm3

I've hopefully made the files line up, so you can diff them like this: https://imgur.com/a/t4qmqEb
(without further research, I don't know what all the options do!)

Hope that helps!

[FroBodine]

Hmm . . . that is a lot of technical stuff. I appreciate the effort you put into that, but it doesn't make much sense to me. I'll just try the two different settings and see what looks better and what my machine can handle.

Do you think an i9-10900K with 32GB RAM and a RTX 4070ti can handle cinematic quality with no problems?

[DanT]

Epic looks great to me to be honest, I don't see much of a difference with Cinematic, but it hurts on the fps!

[FroBodine]

Yeah, I played around with both settings and tweaked some individual settings for each. I'll stick with Epic. Thank you again!