TIP FOR NEW BUYER changing ini files manually.

[Chumpy]

First of all, a special thanks goes out to all who did this before me and the real smart ones who figured these things out first and did the work to create guides. Also appreciation for the teams that worked together to create this game. I know this is an older game, anyway thanks. There is what i would call a problem. which you will see.

Good idea to make sure game updated. You can update the game from the games folder. Since i am using the Origin version not sure about steam, you can find the mohaupdater.exe in game directory. right click run as admin.

I have discovered the ".ini" files in Documents folder of local disk.

I have got the sweetfx working. I got greater field of view working.

This improved the graphics and overal feel greatly.

I noticed the switching LOD's of character models, lighting and some objects especially. In other words POP up. We can fix this!

For larger field of view download this little program https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/389-medal-of-honor-2010-fov-changer/. It must be installed into my documents folder to work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Bzmi3QGRk Instructions are in description.


For me using windows 10 64bit, the file has to be in documents folder to work. I put mine in Documents/EA Games. Be sure to have the program "Run as admin" I also run the Medal Of Honor exe as admin. Open the program before you start Medal Of Honor 2010.
Once you start Medal Of Honor and have got the mission loaded, alt tab back to the FOV changer and set your field of view, check the box "Enabled" If its working you will see in the FOV changer that it is green and will correspond. You will know if its working.

Also be sure to check out the Sweetfx program. I can help with that to.
https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/game/91/ I am using "Next Gen Feeling" check the screenshots it really does look tons better.

If you want the Anti Aliasing to work properly and have Nvidia Card. I turn off the games AA settings because they don't seem to work anyway. I just use FXAA for the game in Nvidia Control Panel.

If anyone is stuck trying to get the game looking better. It is possible and i will gladly help. Just ask and you will recieve.

Changing Skeletal Mesh LOD settings (Fixes character models changing detail right in front of player)

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Medal_of_Honor_(2010)

You want to open the "MOHAEngine.ini" file located in
Documents/EA Games/Medal Of Honor/Config

You are looking to change some lines to correspond with whats below.

Open MOHAEngine.ini.

Find all of the posted values and change them to match.

CSMSizeScale=4.000000 -- WARNING, this massively increases VRAM usage; 3.000000 provides a good balance of quality and performance. (I use 1.8000000 this keeps performance good and shadows not too crisp. I only increased the shadow res to min 256 and max 384)
The CSMSizeScale seems to be the big game changer


NumStreamedMips=0 -- Add this to the end of every "TEXTUREGROUP" this includes the comma! (I did not do this as not sure what it does. Can anyone explain?)

PoolSize=320 -- This can be the size of your choosing

MinTimeToGuaranteeMinMipCount=0
MaxTimeToGuaranteeMinMipCount=0

Do note that the ones below in all CAPS are actually DIFFERENT variables than the ones not in caps. They are specific to this game at the very end of "[SystemSettings]"

STATICMESHLODBIAS=-1
SKELETALMESHSHADOWLODBIAS=-1
MAXDYNAMICDECALS=-1
MAXSTATICDECALS=-1
MAXPARTICLES=-1
SkeletalMeshLODBias=-1
ParticleLODBias=-1
MinShadowResolution=512
MaxShadowResolution=1024

(With Min and Max shadow resolution, i found that for best performance minimum-256 and max-384 worked best for me, the shadows still looked sharp but not over crisp. Feel free to change to your desire)
Now you can enjoy MOH 2010 with decent graphics.

One last comment. Whoever is responsible for keeping games updated. Be it EA or the Developer. You really should update your game to aqquire these sort of settings in the games options so people don't have to jump through hoops. You know posts like this and all the work that goes into it, fans making the PC version of the game look better. You could simply do it yourselves with an update. It would save yourselves lots of negative talk. Get more SALEs for the game. It would also = Less negative reviews, more love for your company for future games. So why not put in the effort?
I and others alike are not getting paid to do this sort of work and i don't think we really appreciate having to do things like this, in the hopes that some extra people who might be missing these things, get fun out of this game, the way it was intended.

Please for the love of GOD Publishers, developers. Please just put in the propper effort and save us customers the trouble. We would be happier customers.

Send off to EA or developer if you think it might help.

My wish is to have these settings changeable in the games menu. Also the CD Key Activation needs to be fixed in the steam version.

[Michael]

I just downloaded the FOV adjuster that you linked, it's very easy to use and it works. Makes the game much more playable. Thank you.

[Chumpy]

Am so glad somone made the FOV tool. Very much appreciated.

[KB1RD1]

Thanks for the Tips,

you mention the Comma but your posted text doesn't include it either.

I beleive it is used as separator from the last command or option inside the brackets (.....,....)

probably should be copied inside the Brackets with the other settings for each texture group

,NumStreamedMips=0

full post here :

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/nvidia-anti-aliasing-guide-updated.357956/page-133#post-4976580

and more info here :

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Medal_of_Honor_(2010)#Essential_improvements

[Chumpy]

"ShadowFilterRadius=1.000000 -- Higher values will cause some visual glitches, however this will not."

I don't understand this bit^ What does "however this will not" mean? it sounds contradict

I might try it because i see shadows rolling in as i run along at about 60meters or so, might fix that

Remastered version of Medal Of Honor 2010 would be so good!

[KB1RD1]

I thought it meant 1.000 was ok but anything higher will cause issues.

Don't bother enabling DX10 in the .ini file , it causes really bad glitching

Haven't tried SweetFX yet....

[Chumpy]

DX10 just caused fail to launch for me.

[Chumpy]

320x240 Doom2 res wtf lol

[Chumpy]

Originally posted by Kbird666:

I thought it meant 1.000 was ok but anything higher will cause issues.

Don't bother enabling DX10 in the .ini file , it causes really bad glitching

Haven't tried SweetFX yet....

Kbird666 i have been trying to fiddle with the tree fade settings. Do you know which settings i would need to change? I have got the game looking very nice with playing around with shadow settings in the .ini. All i want to fix up now is the tree foliage which i notice is popping in and out as i run towards them.

Doing some digging in UE3 stuff has got me intrigued.

What i found out is you can change the CSMDistanceScale it seems you have to balance it with ShadowFadeExponent, and ShadowFilterRadius

This increased the shadow distance. Now characters cast shadows at greater distance. For instance the 4 wheel motorbike bit where you get off and take position waiting for the 2 friendly to appear running along the wall. Shadows are now cast from those 2 characters on the wall when before the value was 1.000000, there was no character shadow.

Please note all, that the original post is no longer what i am using its a little different. If i come to some more knowledge i will update the .ini file settings.

[Chumpy]

Ok found something else out.

Open the BaseCompat.ini Found in the game folder. Also open the MOHAEngine.ini from Documents folder, have them side by side so you can see both text documents. Look for [AppCompat] at the bottom of MOHAEngine.ini. Change

CompatLevelCPU=1
CompatLevelGPU=5

In BaseCompat.ini Change the GPUmemory5=768 to a higher value

Now you can change shadow detail in the settings menu to "High" with slider bar.
This gives me something to work with in regards to shadows rolling in. in the .ini files
Will report back. Not sure what CPU should be set to, as most of us have much better cpu than from year 2010.

Edit
lol.

High shadow settings in game menu look no better. What i am messing around with is these values which seem to make a good difference. Currently testing on level "Running with Wolves"

ShadowFadeExponent=3.000000
ShadowFilterRadius=0.300000
CSMDistanceScale=6.000000
CSMSizeScale=2.500000

This helps that horrible draw line you see on shadows while moving. Shadows at distance look better and stops some shadows from popping in. What i am working on is trying to get the shadows to look nicer up close now. Shadow Texels per pixel or shadowquality bias might have something to do with it. Will keep on the fiddle

[KB1RD1]

Originally posted by Dr Forrester & Sylvia:

Originally posted by Kbird666:

Kbird666 i have been trying to fiddle with the tree fade settings. Do you know which settings i would need to change? I have got the game looking very nice with playing around with shadow settings in the .ini. All i want to fix up now is the tree foliage which i notice is popping in and out as i run towards them.

HI , sorry haven't played in a while as I have finished it twice now, but I ended up turning antialiasing off in the game and over-riding settings in the Nvidia Control Panel instead.
just don't have time to "fiddle" and just wanted to "run and gun" when i had time....

As for the trees I turned SpeedTrees OFF in the .ini file , well actually I set them both to false, figuring my computer was much stronger than back then and they looked pretty good.

[Trauma Disaster]

I updated sp as adm but when I select the exe, I get nothing, just an hour glass for a few seconds. The updater did update to 76 I think. On win10, Origin version, gtx 1080. Any suggestions? Thanks

[Markie]

The FOV mod has been updated, It's working properly now and the viewmodel FOV scale slider is great! 120 FOV + 90 viewmodel FOV looks perfect on my 16:9 screen.

https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/389-medal-of-honor-2010-fov-changer/

[Mine iga | TOP-CLAN.ru | 4G only]

Originally posted by Markie:

The FOV mod has been updated, It's working properly now and the viewmodel FOV scale slider is great! 120 FOV + 90 viewmodel FOV looks perfect on my 16:9 screen.

https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/389-medal-of-honor-2010-fov-changer/

are u idiots??? insdtall programm for edit text file??? ahahahah
10x more easy edit settings.ini text file

my folder for example, look way to file in Documents folder
C:\Users\HP\Documents\EA Games\Medal of Honor\Multiplayer\settings.ini

[Markie]

Originally posted by TISHKA DRONT | top-clan.ru:

Originally posted by Markie:

The FOV mod has been updated, It's working properly now and the viewmodel FOV scale slider is great! 120 FOV + 90 viewmodel FOV looks perfect on my 16:9 screen.

https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/389-medal-of-honor-2010-fov-changer/

are u idiots??? insdtall programm for edit text file??? ahahahah
10x more easy edit settings.ini text file

my folder for example, look way to file in Documents folder
C:\Users\HP\Documents\EA Games\Medal of Honor\Multiplayer\settings.ini

That's for the multiplayer, which runs on the Frostbite engine. Singleplayer runs on Unreal Engine 3 and its FOV can't be changed through an .ini file.

[ProChaser [Linux]]

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