FPS Fix (25FPS to 60FPS, Any GPU including Intel HD & Other APUs)

Video tutorial on an FPS Fix that works on almost any graphics card. It also works for Intel HD Graphics and other Integrated APUs
This mod removes some graphical aesthetics that should have been available in the game's settings to begin with to improve performance.
This mod does not work on pirated copies of Storm 4. Please purchase the full game because the pirated copies do not come with the optimization patches available on the legitimately purchased Steam version of the game. Sometimes that alone is enough to get it to run on your PC, but if it doesn't then you also have this mod to fall back on.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

This mod was originally designed in response to the original status of Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 as a way for people to reduce their graphical settings to get Storm 4 running at it's initial full-speed at 30FPS.

Ever since Patch 1.07 (1.08 on console), the game received numerous changes to how its graphics work, where the game now performs better on low-end machines. In this regard, you can run this game at 360p 60fps or 480p 30fps on Intel HD and other integrated cards.

Because of this, the Tormunds FPS Fix shown here isn't necessary to run the game on low end machines. This should only be used to get that little bit of performance out of the game if you prefer HD over particles. Otherwise, it's not worth it with how much the game crashes.

No seriously, this mod is bad

If you're just gonna skip over these, I mean I tried. There have been numerous comments of people having issues with this mod. If you comment asking why your game just refuses to open or why your FPS are "unchanged" after applying the mod, I'm just gonna be straightforward and tell you not to use this mod.

This mod was necessary when the game's graphics settings were literally just "720p, 1080p, windowed, fullscreen, blur, glare". Now we can go down to 240p and upscale to 4k, and everything in between. We can change what FPS the game locks to. Hell, the game had a 1/4 reduction in hardware requirements. If you absolutely can't run this game at low settings, I don't know what to say to you at this point. My 2014 Intel HD laptop that ran the game at 1024x768 10fps on launch can run it at 1024x768 30fps. Imagine what else it can run on at 360p.

At this point if you can't run it at 30fps on the lowest settings, that's just a skill issue. Cope and seethe, yadda yadda. This mod won't change that at all, and even if it lets your game run it'll be more prone to crashes.

Besides, the real creator of the mod (Tormunds) who asked me to make this guide and my (now deleted) YouTube tutorial on it later accused me of stealing this very mod. And yes, he's even listed as a contributor and could easily edit this guide at any time. Cope and seethe, this community is toxic.

It is not worth the trouble. Seriously.

Required Software

• A computer with a mouse and keyboard (Duh)
  
• Non-Pirated Steam copy of Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4
  
• HxD (Download Link Provided In This Guide)

This mod does not work on pirated copies of Storm 4. If you have pirated the game, please buy the full game.

When you pirate the game and try this mod, you will get one of three errors:

The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000142)

Could not initialize Steam

The last error would be that the game still runs slowly and/or crashes.

The Mod

HxD Download - https://mh-nexus.de/en/downloads.php?product=HxD

Step-By-Step Tutorial

Preparation:

• Open the folder that Storm 4 is installed in (C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4)
  
• Create a backup of NSUNS4.exe (Shown as NSUNS4 for those that have disabled file extensions in Windows Explorer) by copying it, pasting it, and renaming the copy to _NSUNS4.exe (Including the underscore so it's at the top of the folder and easy to find)
  
• Open HxD

Removing Shadows:

1. Drag and Drop NSUNS4.exe (The original EXE, not the backup) into the HxD window
   
2. Press CTRL+F and type PE_PRE
   
3. Press Enter/Return
   
4. Click the space just before the P in PE and press 0 until the entire string of PE_PRE_DRAW.SHADOW is replaced with . on the right hand side of the window
   
5. Save the file by pressing CTRL+S, but don't close it yet!
   
6. (NOTE: If you remove shadows, but not particles, your game WILL crash during certain parts of Story Mode and any effect-heavy Ultimate Jutsu)

Removing Particles:

1. Press CTRL+F and type particle
   
2. Press Enter/Return
   
3. Press F3 until you find PARTICLE_DRAW_THREAD and replace that whole string with 0 as well (It will appear as ................... when it's done)
   
4. Pres Shift+F3 until you find Draw.nuccParticleRootManager and replace the whole string with 0s as well (Be careful! Do not replace anything else, not even the : before and after.)
   
5. Press F3 to find and replace nuccChunkParticle and replace it with 0 as shown above.
   
6. NOTE: If you reach the bottom and it says "Cannot find particle", just press Shift+F3 instead. If you reach the top and it says "Cannot find particle", just press F3 instead.
   
7. Save the file by pressing CTRL+S

Why This Mod Works

When you disable PE_PRE_DRAW.SHADOW, you're just removing the drop shadows from the characters. Character models are normally cel-shaded, so that shading isn't removed. Instead, the blob shadow that appears on the ground will be removed from the game. This reduces the GPU (Video Memory) consumption by a large amount.

Because you are removing a function that the game calls periodically, the game would naturally crash because said function is missing. However, Storm 4 (And all Storm games for PC) has error-handling that allows for these functions to be missing by consuming some RAM (Random Access Memory) to compensate.

Because of the nature of this error-handling function, it has memory leaks and thus takes up more and more memory the longer you play. In this case, your RAM will be all used up quickly (Unless you have around 32GB RAM or higher because the game probably has a garbage collection that isn't called frequently enough to make up for this RAM overload) and the game will simply crash due to "Out of Memory"

To solve this crashing problem, we disable particles as shown in the video since particles are very RAM-heavy and CPU-heavy. In this case, it reduces CPU consumption and RAM consumption by a lot, and even VRAM consumption by a little bit, but this doesn't mean a Pentium or Pentium 4 can play this game for other reasons.

Credits

Steam Community - Finding the Minato Rasengan Ring Out FPS Fix Exploit

Tormunds - Finding why the Minato Rasengan Ring Out FPS Fix Exploit fixed people's frame rates, removing PE_PRE_DRAW.SHADOW, making the mod public for anyone to download, and crash debug information

<<R.A.G.>> - Removing the specific particle lines based on crash debug information and creating a tutorial video that works only on legally-owned versions of Storm 4

Read If You Have Troubles With The Mod

Common Mistakes:
-As shown in the video, make a backup of the original EXE. I named it _NSUNS4.exe in the video. If you don't make a backup by accident, you can restore the original EXE by verifying your game cache.
-Don't delete the lines that are shown in the video. Replace them with 0s on the hex side. They will show as red dots on the text side and red 0s on the hex side, but they will show as regular dots and regular 0s when you save the file.
-To find a string, press CTRL+F. To use the "Find Next" and "Find Previous" commands, you press F3 for "Find Next" and Shift+F3 for "Find Previous". Pressing CTRL+F again will only find the closest occurence of that string.

If you have pirated this game, this mod will NOT work for you. I know this because there are only 3 kinds of people that can't get it to work: People who have old CPUs (Like a Pentium 4) or aren't running it on Windows 7 or higher, people who didn't follow the video properly, or people who have pirated the game. Just to confirm, I've actually asked one of my friends that legally owns this game on PC to download a pirated version and try the mod out and it didn't work.

I am also going to discuss with a moderator whether or not it is allowed to post an EXE for the latest patch that already has the Tormunds FPS Fix applied to it so people can just download it. If it's not allowed, I won't post it.

Information for Steam Community Moderators

If you're a moderator and have found this guide, this mod does not give anyone access to anything they should not be allowed to use. This mod simply removes the drop shadows given off by fighters' models and disables the visual particle effects to reduce GPU and RAM consumption. These should have been settings provided in the game's settings from the start, but went missing for unknown reasons. This mod does not enable anyone to cheat at the game whatsoever. As explained earlier, it only disables some visual aesthetics from the game. All missing particles still have their colliders attached to them and thus the game's functionality is NOT impeded by this mod whatsoever. This can be proven by the fact that using this mod online does not change anything for people who do not have the mod enabled whatsoever (You could actually play someone without them knowing that the mod is on. I've done it.) and will not provide an advantage to the people using this mod nor a disadvantage to anyone not using the mod. I do not condone cheating and am a consistent reporter of cheaters and pirates on these forums. This mod is not a cheat, simply a graphical downgrade that allows users with PCs under the system requirements to be able to play a game that they have purchased. If there is a problem with this mod or a post to your knowledge, please send me a warning post, add me as a friend and message me, or comment on this guide and I will be compliant to change or remove anything on here that violates Steam's community guidelines. Thank you for your time in reading this detailed paragraph about why this mod does not violate Steam's community guidelines and does not provide users with the tools or ability to cheat above what is already available in the game's raw vanilla state.

[Hayatemaru]

Video's dead because the mod isn't worth using anymore. The thing this mod disables no longer takes 1.5GB VRAM, and the game has graphics options that let you go below just "720p and 1080p".

[𓅃 スノ 𓅃]

video dead, btw i own the game but i rather play it with no drm

[apxi]

Thanks for the help!

[Hayatemaru]

1) Right click the game in your steam library
2) Click Properties
3) Go to the local files tab
4) Click verify integrity of game cache

After that wait for it to finish

[apxi]

How can you revert the changes u made? I kinda want the particles back