Reduce pop in with this...

[ar2games]

Some comparisson pictures first: https://imgur.com/a/iEGt9sr

A) As you might've noticed some trees in the distance won't render properly or at all so to fix that go to: C:\Users\"yourusername"\AppData\Local\VisionsofMana\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

Find the GameUserSettings.ini and at the top you'll see the scalability groups, at max settings they go up to 3 but you can set some of them up to 4, do this for all of them and the ones that can't use 4 will automatically go back to 3. That will fix missing elements like those trees.

B) Another improvement you can see are distant shadows for those trees and maybe you've noticed that sometimes the mountains and the floor change shape because they load higher quality versions, to fix all that in the same location find the Engine.ini and at the bottom of all the arguments copy these:

[SystemSettings]
r.StaticMeshLODDistanceFactor=0.1
r.Streaming.Boost=10
r.Streaming.PoolSize=4000
r.Streaming.FullyLoadUsedTextures=1
r.Streaming.UseAllMips=1
r.Streaming.MipBias=0
r.Streaming.HLODStrategy=0
r.bForceCPUAccessToGPUSkinVerts=1
r.LODDistanceFactor=10
r.ViewDistance=5
r.ViewDistanceScale=5
r.LandscapeLODDistributionScale=3
r.LandscapeLOD0DistributionScale=3
r.StaticMeshLODDistanceScale=0.01
r.MaterialQualityLevel=1
r.SkeletalMeshLODRadiusScale=0.03
r.LandscapeLODBias=-3
r.LightFunctionQuality=1
r.AllowLandscapeShadows=1
r.MaxAnisotropy=16
r.Shadow.DistanceScale=2
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades=10
grass.CullDistanceScale=4
foliage.ditheredLOD=0
foliage.MinimumScreenSize=0.00000001
foliage.MaxOcclusionQueriesPerComponent=128
foliage.MinInstancesPerOcclusionQuery=65536

These also improve the foliage density and shadow cascades but since the game uses a lot of pre baked shadows, the improvements are not always as big and even with these changes there's still some pop in, if you know other arguments to further improve the quality feel free to post them.

[Honorable_D]

Hey thanks, pop in is one of those things that really annoys me.

Does this also boost distance you can see monster and NPC?

[Doctor Hades]

Don't increase the r.Shadow.DistanceScale any higher than 2 otherwise it will break the shadows on smaller objects such as chairs, tables, pots etc as well as animals such as the dogs and wildlife.

Even 3 breaks this at least it does for me on my system in both the demo and retail version of the game. It wasn't something I noticed immediately as your party, NPCs and trees/buildings still cast shadows.

[ar2games]

Originally posted by Doctor Hades:

Don't increase the r.Shadow.DistanceScale any higher than 2 otherwise it will break the shadows on smaller objects such as chairs, tables, pots etc as well as animals such as the dogs and wildlife.

Even 3 breaks this at least it does for me on my system in both the demo and retail version of the game. It wasn't something I noticed immediately as your party, NPCs and trees/buildings still cast shadows.

Thanks! you are right, dog shadows are gone with 5. I think 2 is indeed the best one so I'll edit the first post.

[ar2games]

Bump.
I'm trying some SSR settings to see if they can look better but do far I haven't managed to make improvements.

[Sprocket]

thanks. Im using this with the mod from nexus - im sure some overlap but it looks great!

[ØGThor]

Thanks!

[IkuruYoshizumi]

Gracias, lo probare

[Warrior of Right]

Good to know thanks.
(and i assume those PS button prompts are built into the game and not a mod?)

[ar2games]

Originally posted by Warrior of Right:

Good to know thanks.
(and i assume those PS button prompts are built into the game and not a mod?)

Yes, you can use any kind of buttons you want.

[Honorable_D]

Bumping this for others to see, the draw distance boosts are great. Down with pop in!

[CyBerKinRu]

i still have tons of pop in does anyone have any idea why ?

[btanis20]

Just made some changes, based on what you've suggested.

I'll give it a go sometime later today.

[Zunnoab #931]

Originally posted by Ninja Vanish:

Good to know thanks.
(and i assume those PS button prompts are built into the game and not a mod?)

The option is pretty weirdly worded, but it's there in one of the configuration menus. PlayStation is the "2" option. Technically it should auto-detect, but it did not for me. So I just set it myself. It does auto-detect for some though.

I'm glad you can choose it. One of the worst habits developers have is exclusively auto-detecting without giving the user an override option. They did not make that mistake with this game, even if the wording is weird.