[Tutorial] Uncap FPS, use HD Font, increase FOV, etc.

[HDxDaniel]

Devs, you can pin this thread if you find it useful :)

UNCAP FPS (Unlimited FPS):

1 - Go here: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Soma\Main\
2 - Open the file: username_alotofnumbers_user_settings.cfg
3 - Change this: Engine LimitFPS="true"
To: Engine LimitFPS="false"
4 - Open the game, go to Options > Display > choose the maximum refreash rate and set VSync to OFF.

CHANGE FOV:

1 - Open the same file as the previous step.
2 - Change the fov here: Gameplay FOV="XXXXXX"
WHERE XXXXXX IS your fov, for example: Gameplay FOV="90.000000"

HD FONT:

The actual font of the subtitles and other things on screen are a little bit blurry and at bad resolution, so I made a "remake" of that Bitmap font (I used the same original font, mplus-2p-medium).


Instructions:


1 - Download this file: https://mega.nz/#!dUt0XbQC!OvuQylXOmxawPOjeLeYQn2xbyw568QfHgX43ZFErYHM

2 - Enter this direction in Windows file explorer:
%HomeDrive%\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SOMA

3 - Right click on "Fonts" folder > send to > compress folder (.zip). (This is a quick way of backing up your actual fonts, so if you want to use the default one just unzip the files into the "fonts" folder...).

4 - Extract the .zip you downloaded on the step 1 inside the "fonts" folder, it will replace 2 files.

5 - Open Steam and play the game! :D

Note: the bitmap font I made includes normal Latin caracters, therefore English, Spanish, French and more languages should be supported, if not, use the below config file and add more characters.

If you want to use my config but use another font just download this preset I made. Use BMFont program to load it, then choose the things you want and export it as a Bitmap font, also name the output file as "default_small.fnt".

HD FONT CONFIG: https://mega.nz/#!QMsGRRxT!ZXHX5bdydq_BXH2bvFtwxBRd4PPVMif90VidkbgpEVo

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nick님이 먼저 게시:

From that same config you can also enable debug mode and view things like your framerate in-game and more.

Also for people uncapping who want high framerates - turn off the graphic setting SMAOO and antialiasing to off. Disabling both should give a massive boost and they're not necessary on 1080p or above. Also I recommend you disable mouse smoothing.

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[nickwithtea]

From that same config you can also enable debug mode and view things like your framerate in-game and more.

Also for people uncapping who want high framerates - turn off the graphic setting SMAOO and antialiasing to off. Disabling both should give a massive boost and they're not necessary on 1080p or above. Also I recommend you disable mouse smoothing.

I'm still trying to find out if we can limit FPS numerically because uncapping lets it go 'free' which has high frame variance which is bad. The hard 60 fps cap the game defaults with is also bad, wish they never did that. My game is running at 116-160 fps depending on the area. Sometimes goes lower than 116 in huge areas but it's decent enough that I can play. Amnesia TDD ran a bit smoother from what I recall because I played that entire game never noticing the framerate -- soma I do notice it while playing due to tearing/input delays when the framerate drops. Maybe lowering shadows could make it more stable? I'm not sure really.

[Weion]

It would appear that the FoV setting in the config refers to the Vertical FOV as my ingame FOV is set to 110 while the config states 83.

As for antialiasing I supersample as FXAA looks terrible, the issues surrounding that have been fixed in the PCGW article.

Also check out the PCGamingWiki Page for SOMA and contribute if you think it is nesessary.

http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/SOMA

[HDxDaniel]

nick님이 먼저 게시:

From that same config you can also enable debug mode and view things like your framerate in-game and more.

Also for people uncapping who want high framerates - turn off the graphic setting SMAOO and antialiasing to off. Disabling both should give a massive boost and they're not necessary on 1080p or above. Also I recommend you disable mouse smoothing.

I'm still trying to find out if we can limit FPS numerically because uncapping lets it go 'free' which has high frame variance which is bad. The hard 60 fps cap the game defaults with is also bad, wish they never did that. My game is running at 116-160 fps depending on the area. Sometimes goes lower than 116 in huge areas but it's decent enough that I can play. Amnesia TDD ran a bit smoother from what I recall because I played that entire game never noticing the framerate -- soma I do notice it while playing due to tearing/input delays when the framerate drops. Maybe lowering shadows could make it more stable? I'm not sure really.

If you want to cap your fps you can use "nVidia Inspector" if you use a nvidia card.