Graphic settings guides?

[0x41414141]

Anyone have a good graphics settings guide?

I have an RTX 3060 and it is consuming 100% GPU when using anti-aliasing (TAA). The game looks bad without it so I'd like to keep it on... I'm running on the HIGH preset right now and I'm wondering if there are any tweaks I can make to not lower the quality that much but to improve performance.

The game runs fine at 60FPS, the issue is I get constant micro-stutters (when TAA is on).

I get this game being CPU intensive but I don't see where the GPU hog is going towards.

edit: btw; having the game "refresh" after you change ANY graphical settings is exceptionally annoying when you are trying to find a good configuration... there should be an APPLY button instead so you can change several things before testing.

[Dunkler Messias]

Make sure to turn off volumetric fog, especially if using AA.

[0x41414141]

Originally posted by Dunkler Messias:

Make sure to turn off volumetric fog, especially if using AA.

I havent seen any changes while changing that. Maybe it's where I'm at at the moment.

What did improve a little bit performance was turning Vsync on (I would expect it to worsen performance, but it did help)

[Habanero Pickles]

Try different anti-aliasing. For my steam deck TAA seemed to be the best performance improvement vs looks but that might not be universally true.
I cut the cockpit reflections way down. Also cut the fog.
Also turned off the UI glow because it makes things hard to read.
Biggest improvement in performance was switching to native Linux runtime. Obviously don't do that if you're not on Linux or Steam OS.

[db48x]

TAA is crap. What you really want MSAA 4x or 8x. My 980 Ti handles MSAA 4x just fine most of the time. It doesn’t always stay at 60fps, but there are often other reasons for that.

[0x41414141]

Originally posted by Habanero Pickles:

Try different anti-aliasing. For my steam deck TAA seemed to be the best performance improvement vs looks but that might not be universally true.
I cut the cockpit reflections way down. Also cut the fog.
Also turned off the UI glow because it makes things hard to read.
Biggest improvement in performance was switching to native Linux runtime. Obviously don't do that if you're not on Linux or Steam OS.

I was running with Proton GE but I'll try native. TAA was the anti-aliasing that had the best performance for me as well.

[Project Danny]

I HIGHLY recommend reducing station traffic and station NPC count in the configuration file it gave like 30+ more fps when around or on stations it was amazing!

For station fps change in Documents\Egosoft\X4\53790910\config.xml and setting "<trafficdensity>0.01</trafficdensity>" from 0.50 and "<chardensity>0.20</chardensity>" from 0.50.

This is what I found on the Internet change the numbers to w.e you wish experiment with them.

I used 0.25 for both mine and it works amazing but maybe you might want it lower its entirely upto you.

Its a small thing but I can't live without it.

[0x41414141]

Originally posted by Habanero Pickles:

Try different anti-aliasing. For my steam deck TAA seemed to be the best performance improvement vs looks but that might not be universally true.
I cut the cockpit reflections way down. Also cut the fog.
Also turned off the UI glow because it makes things hard to read.
Biggest improvement in performance was switching to native Linux runtime. Obviously don't do that if you're not on Linux or Steam OS.

changing to native linux did improve performance. it cost me my save files and configs though...

[0x41414141]

Originally posted by Project Danny:

I HIGHLY recommend reducing station traffic and station NPC count in the configuration file it gave like 30+ more fps when around or on stations it was amazing!

For station fps change in Documents\Egosoft\X4\53790910\config.xml and setting "<trafficdensity>0.01</trafficdensity>" from 0.50 and "<chardensity>0.20</chardensity>" from 0.50.

This is what I found on the Internet change the numbers to w.e you wish experiment with them.

I used 0.25 for both mine and it works amazing but maybe you might want it lower its entirely upto you.

Its a small thing but I can't live without it.

thanks, I'll mess around with these

[db48x]

Originally posted by 0x41414141:

changing to native linux did improve performance. it cost me my save files and configs though...

They’re just stored in a different place. When you are using Proton they are in your steam library under steamapps/compatdata/<steam-game-id>/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/Egosoft/X4/<steam-user-id>/save. Just copy the files you find there to ~/.config/EgoSoft/X4/<steam-user-id>/save.

[0x41414141]

Originally posted by db48x:

Originally posted by 0x41414141:

changing to native linux did improve performance. it cost me my save files and configs though...

They’re just stored in a different place. When you are using Proton they are in your steam library under steamapps/compatdata/<steam-game-id>/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/Egosoft/X4/<steam-user-id>/save. Just copy the files you find there to ~/.config/EgoSoft/X4/<steam-user-id>/save.

Yep; first time I see this save file logic in games that have native linux... I had to copy the entire directory below /save, though, or else steamcloud complained.

Also; lost all my keybindings which I wasted another 1h30 setting up.

[db48x]

Your keybindings are in an xml file next to the save directory. Couldn’t you figure that out for yourself? After recovering your save files you just assume that your precious key bindings are gone forever?

[0x41414141]

Originally posted by db48x:

Your keybindings are in an xml file next to the save directory. Couldn’t you figure that out for yourself? After recovering your save files you just assume that your precious key bindings are gone forever?

Why are you emotionally charged?

Read calmly what I wrote before: I copied the entire directory and my keybindings did not transfer.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

Originally posted by db48x:

Your keybindings are in an xml file next to the save directory. Couldn’t you figure that out for yourself? After recovering your save files you just assume that your precious key bindings are gone forever?

don't bother, I tried assisting him in another thread too but he acts like he knows everything and is just snooty because he's inconvenienced. Dude plays games on linux and expects everything to work properly out of the box lol. Sir, this is Linux.