How to get high quality graphics with the lack of in-game settings.

[WelvynZPorter]

It seems that many people don't know that by default some settings are not the highest they could be. With the lack of in-game settings you will have to go into your game files and manually change these things. Though there is an article that discusses this, it seems not many read it seeing as Steam forums are riddled with "it doesn't look much different" debates (so this is more a public service announcement rather than my own discovery).


Find:
C:\Users \[yourusername] \AppData \Roaming \BioShockHD \BioShock.ini

Scroll ALL THE WAY down and when at the bottom start slowing scrolling up.


You will see default things like:

DynamicShadowDetail=Medium
or
UseHighDetailSoftParticles=False


Change things like this to "High" and "True" and keep looking around for any other settings that might seem to increase quality (with the lack of settings in-game, I won't lie when I say this may take some trial and error). Take note of what you saved for future reference (otherwise you'll have to delete the .ini file and restart (worst case you'll have to reinstall)), save, exit, and enjoy Bioshock Remastered at a higher quality.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=764786276 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=764787539 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=764788324 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=764789033


EDIT: Lister of Smeg has shared an invaluable guide for help with these tweaks.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Bioshock_7.html

[WelvynZPorter]

Would you kindly bump if it helps.

[Lister of Smeg ︻デ =ー]

I already posted a topic on this. The guide can be found: http://www.tweakguides.com/Bioshock_7.html

[WelvynZPorter]

Originally posted by Lister of Smeg:

I already posted a topic on this. The guide can be found: http://www.tweakguides.com/Bioshock_7.html

Something like this should be pinned, too many people are debating/complaining without knowing these things can be changed but just not in-game.

[Camellia]

The remastered version on PC sure is a ♥♥♥♥ show...

[🔱 JoS 🔱]

Those "hidden" options tend to crash the game more than usual, if you value those save game files, use with caution.

[WelvynZPorter]

Originally posted by JOGAN:

The remastered version on PC sure is a ♥♥♥♥ show...

Originally posted by JoS:

Those "hidden" options tend to crash the game more than usual, if you value those save game files, use with caution.

This /\ JOGAN is why I feel the devs left out the options from being changed in-game.

Though it's plenty b.s. (EDIT) for PC gamers. (as in it's bs we can't change them.)

[Lister of Smeg ︻デ =ー]

Originally posted by ⎛Zii⎞:

Originally posted by JOGAN:

The remastered version on PC sure is a ♥♥♥♥ show...

Originally posted by JoS:

Those "hidden" options tend to crash the game more than usual, if you value those save game files, use with caution.

This /\ JOGAN is why I feel the devs left out the options from being changed in-game.

Though it's plenty of b.s.

Those hidden options were there in 2007 and fixes alot of issues and still do the same.

[Big fish]

Thank you for sharing. But is there a way to make it so that the game does not change your difficulty? I have already looked through various .ini files both through the Appdata passage and the Steam folder. I can't see anything that has a difficulty parameter.

Update
Never mind, I launched the game and tried loading a save - then when I went back into the appdata .ini file, it is suddenly there. What the heck?

[ostar]

IF you mess up, you can probably just delete the .ini's and then either restart the game or verify game cache to get the originals back.

No need to completely redownload and reinstall the entire game.