MAKING GAME RUN ON A "LOWER END" (AND LINUX)

A guide to make game more performant, sharp and linux-playable.

Why do this game runs that bad?

This game is running on a Unreal Engine 5.1 (lol that's not the reason) , and by default it turns on chugger-fest features , such as: Real-Time Dynamic Global Illumination (Lumen) , Virtual Shadow Maps (VSM) and Temporal Super Resolution (TSR) .

What can we do?

We can turn off Lumen, replace TSR with TAA , add sharpening to fight TAA's blur , replace VSM with classical CSM and turn on DFAO (software ray-traced AO) to add depth to the game .


BTW during battles game runs at a 144 fps locked on a rx 6600 (100% render scale) .

WOAH COOL , BUT WHAT EXACTLY DO I NEED TO DO?

On Windows : Windows key + R, type in %Appdata% , navigate to the AppData/Local/Chanbara/Saved/Config/Windows/Engine.ini , add one empty line , and paste this :

[SystemSettings]
r.AntiAliasingMethod=2
r.ReflectionMethod=0
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod=0
r.DistanceFieldAO=1
r.DFFullResolution=0
r.ContactShadows=0
r.CapsuleShadows=1
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=1.5
r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable=0
r.BloomQuality=0
r.SSR.Quality=0

On Linux/Steam Deck : navigate to the /home/*USERNAME*/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2551500/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Chanbara/Saved/Config/Windows/Engine.ini and do absolutely the same , as above .
This config also turns off Bloom . If you want it back - just change it to the "1" .

MAKING GAME EVEN MORE PERFORMANT

You can turn off DFAO by setting it to the "0"
You can turn on FXAA by setting r.AntiAliasingMethod to " 1 " or even turn it off " 0 "
And setting render scale to the small numbers .



BTW engine has some console commands to change resolution of the shadow maps, but the ones, that i know - doesn't work in a Engine.ini file . Maybe you know , how to fix it?

GAME DOESN'T LAUNCH ON LINUX/STEAM DECK

In this case you'll need to install vcrun2022 through protontricks .

1.Install protontricks through your favourite package manager (i'm using flatpak version)
2.Run protontricks and choose game's prefix .
3. Click on the "Install an application" .
4.Click on "Cancel"
5.Click on the "Install a Windows DLL or component"
6. Install "vcrun2022" .

[Astaroth]

This are the ones that I use
[SystemSettings]
r.MipMapLODBias=2
r.DFFullResolution=0
r.Upscale.Quality=1
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=1.5
r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=1
r.Tonemapper.Quality=3
r.AntiAliasingMethod=2
r.ReflectionMethod=0
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod=0
r.DistanceFieldAO=1
r.ContactShadows=0
r.CapsuleShadows=1
r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable=0
r.BloomQuality=0
r.SSR.Quality=0

my pc has an Intel I5 1135G7 with 16gb of ram and Iris Xe IGPU and it literaly makes my game go up to 60 locked fps.

[Casm]

[SystemSettings]
foliage.CullAll=1
FX.MaxNiagaraCPUParticlesPerEmitter=0
r.AmbientOcclusionLevels=0
r.AntiAliasingMethod=0
r.BloomQuality=0
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod=0
r.Fog=0
r.MipMapLODBias=15
r.ReflectionMethod=0
r.Shadow.MaxCSMResolution=4
r.ShadowQuality=0
r.SkyLightingQuality=0
r.SSS.Scale=0
r.TranslucentLightingVolume=0
r.Upscale.Quality=0

[Zom-kun]

Thank you so much!

[8bitos]

thank you, sekiro runs much better on my laptop

[LEXIS]

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[akibsajidullah]

is there a way to lower the resulation in fullscreen?

[Maya666]

Great!