Useful Performance Console Commands

[Kylerh15]

Spent 3 hours testing tons of console commands and creating a spreadsheet of performance data this is the best I can do with getting it all in a message, I also included some presets based on quality to performance ratio. I hope some of you might find some of this useful I know I did!

Launch Arguments:

-USEALLAVAILABLECORES

Console Commands:

grass.enable 0 (Disables Grass) (Low FPS Impact)
r.ContactShadows 0 (Disables Small Shadows) (Low FPS Impact)
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 0 (Disables Lumen) (High FPS Impact)
r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0 (Disables Lumen Reflections) (Medium FPS Impact)
r.MaterialQualityLevel 0 (Disables Textures) (High FPS Impact)
r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4 (Reduces Triangles For Nanite Meshes) (Medium FPS Impact)
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 (Disables Shadow Cascades) (Medium FPS Impact)
r.ShadowQuality 0 (Disables All Shadows) (High FPS Impact)
r.VolumetricCloud 0 (Disables Clouds) (High FPS Impact)
r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0 (Disables Water Reflections) (Low FPS Impact)
r.volumetricfog 0 (Disables Fog) (Low FPS Impact)

Optimized Command Presets:

Ultra (5% - 15% FPS Gain)
r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 | r.VolumetricCloud 0

High (15% - 25% FPS Gain)
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 0 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 | r.VolumetricCloud 0

Medium (35% - 45% FPS Gain)
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 2 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 | r.VolumetricCloud 0

Low (45% - 55% FPS Gain)
r.ContactShadows 0 | r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 2 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 | r.VolumetricCloud 0 | r.volumetricfog 0 | r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0

Potato (95% - 105% FPS Gain)
grass.enable 0 | r.ContactShadows 0 | r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 2 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 | r.ShadowQuality 0 | r.VolumetricCloud 0 | r.volumetricfog 0 | r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0

[Wype]

very handy to have thanks

[KensonPlays]

How does one reset this back to default? I tried changing some of the 0 to 1, and it didn't seem to do much.

[j_m_o_]

Originally posted by KensonPlays:

How does one reset this back to default? I tried changing some of the 0 to 1, and it didn't seem to do much.

you can always exit the game and restart. Those comands reset every time you start the game.

[j_m_o_]

I also noticed setting foliage interactions to their minimum helped me a good bit.

[KensonPlays]

Originally posted by j_m_o_:

Originally posted by KensonPlays:

How does one reset this back to default? I tried changing some of the 0 to 1, and it didn't seem to do much.

you can always exit the game and restart. Those comands reset every time you start the game.

Did not seem to be the case for me. The game looked the same between multiple restarts. Ended up having to delete the entire config folder and validating the game to reset them to default.

Shouldn't have to do that, though.

[CarTrack]

I've managed to fix the Render Thread Core crash with this console command:

ark.VertexCountScaling 1

Maybe it can help someone else, I've spent 5 days testing different things and nothing worked until I tried this one. I don't see it mentioned anywhere.

[Nosferatu]

Originally posted by j_m_o_:

Originally posted by KensonPlays:

How does one reset this back to default? I tried changing some of the 0 to 1, and it didn't seem to do much.

you can always exit the game and restart. Those comands reset every time you start the game.

how can i do it without having to type it in every time thats a chore? do they not work when you put them into start commands?

[Wille84FIN]

Originally posted by Nosferatu:

Originally posted by j_m_o_:

you can always exit the game and restart. Those comands reset every time you start the game.

how can i do it without having to type it in every time thats a chore? do they not work when you put them into start commands?

I think if you make a autoexec.cfg file and put commands there, and add "-exec autoexec" to steam game lauch options it should load it. I'm just not sure where the autoexec.cfg file should be placed..

[jezy]

Originally posted by Wille84:

Originally posted by Nosferatu:

how can i do it without having to type it in every time thats a chore? do they not work when you put them into start commands?

I think if you make a autoexec.cfg file and put commands there, and add "-exec autoexec" to steam game lauch options it should load it. I'm just not sure where the autoexec.cfg file should be placed..

did you ever figure this out?

[CopeWintergreen]

Originally posted by jezy:

Originally posted by Wille84:

I think if you make a autoexec.cfg file and put commands there, and add "-exec autoexec" to steam game lauch options it should load it. I'm just not sure where the autoexec.cfg file should be placed..

did you ever figure this out?

See here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/594820656447032287/?ctp=1482#c530649887215947947

[Hideous62]

grass.enable 0 stopped working at V33.11

[YoitsKodaa]

Originally posted by Hideous62:

grass.enable 0 stopped working at V33.11

Indeed stopped working for me on Official as well

[Arron_uk]

Originally posted by jezy:

Originally posted by Wille84:

I think if you make a autoexec.cfg file and put commands there, and add "-exec autoexec" to steam game lauch options it should load it. I'm just not sure where the autoexec.cfg file should be placed..

did you ever figure this out?

Press up and I can select previous commands or type then in the command console when enabled in advanced setting and it's bring a list of what ever you have typed in

[Hideous62]

Originally posted by YoitsKodaa:

Originally posted by Hideous62:

grass.enable 0 stopped working at V33.11

Indeed stopped working for me on Official as well

Grass.sizescale 0

[Xavi_VG]

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