Yet another PUBG tweak guide

A, yeah yet another, tweak guide that sorts out some "bad tweaks" & "Launchparameter"

Opening Words

Hello boys & girls, i decided to make this guide (yeah just one of many) because there are some tweaks that doesn't even make sense!

For some strange things happening in game you can't do anything about it, that's because of the netcode that is used by the game!

A youtuber called Battle(non)sense did make some pretty good videos about that:

He describes it really really good, better than i ever will so look his videos :)

And for all those who came in here for tipps and tricks: Please follow wackyjacky on youtube!

This guide i firstly written on the 9th. of May 2017 and will get updates in the future!

1. Launch Parameters

Go in to your Steam Library, right click on Playerunknown's Battlegrounds and hit Properties and than Set launch options

I personally don't use any launch-parameters, because i don't see a difference at all

From my experience, you'll get the best performance with:

-malloc=system -USEALLAVAILABLECORES

2. How to edit .INI files

You can edit your .INI files with your editor or the wordpad that comes with windows, but i prefer Notepad++[notepad-plus-plus.org]

3. Locate your .INI files

Press WIN+R and copy & paste this:

%localappdata%\TslGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

and hit ENTER

4. FPS Cap

In my opinion, SmoothFPS>HighFPS, so if you have a different opinion, okay just skip it :)

Example for "FrameRateCap=70"

Your pc runs most of the time (90% or something like that) above 70fps but below 80fps so the best way is to cap your frames at 70fps, because that will give you a smooth experience

BUT if your pc runs 90% of the time 100+ fps and only dips sometimes below that... cap it at 100fps and so on, i hope you guys understand what i mean.

5. Optional In-Game Settings

I can't repeat it enough: Set your vault and jump keys to 2 seperate keys! This is so much better due to "no accidental vault"


You can set it up in game or you open up your GameUserSetting.ini and copy & paste this over your settings:

[ScalabilityGroups]
sg.ResolutionQuality=100.000000
sg.ViewDistanceQuality=4
sg.AntiAliasingQuality=4
sg.ShadowQuality=0
sg.PostProcessQuality=0
sg.TextureQuality=2
sg.EffectsQuality=2
sg.FoliageQuality=0

This sets your graphic settings to the following settings:


Disable Inventory Character Render, for me it's pretty comfortable because i experience no FPS in my inventory / while looting.


This is, for me, the best setting so far! Your setting could differ, but don't sway or blame anyone for playing with different settings!

6. Bad Tweaks & Launch options

Keep in mind don't use this tweaks in this part

Bad launchoptions:

-sm4

This gives you weird shine on the x4, x8 and so on!

Bad .INI Tweaks

r.EyeAdaptationQuality=0
r.DistanceFieldShadowing=0

These both makes your game pretty dark and probably you can't see very good in dark areas (i.e. inside houses)

7. Snakeoil tweak that doesn't effect performance on your pc at all

Keep in mind don't use this tweaks in this part too, this is only the example of a tweak that doesn't do anything if you select "max".
You can search on google what it does!

1. Press WIN+R and type msconfig
   
2. select "boot"
   
3. advanced options
   
4. numbers of cores, select max and hit okay

Changelog

9 May 2017

1. Release of this guide

13 May 2017

1. Add screenshots

26 September 2017

1. removed a lot of useless tweaks and some hardlocked settings
   
2. added youtube examples

23. December 2018

1. cleaned it up a little, because there are not a lot performance tweaks that are effective
   
2. added another youtube examples

Thank you :)

SO, i have to thank you for reading this and i hope this helps you to get the best Performance out of your game :)

If you have critic or something to add in this Guide, please let me know :)

Best regards Chris

[Cr@zyThunderbird]

Updated it a little, but i don't integrate the frameratecap with e specified number, because the best settings for this are "per user only" every PC performs a little different from the other :)

[skully]

hello man i use a engine ini and the game now is really smooth,i post u my engine.ini so u can see.

[Core.System]
Paths=../../../Engine/Content
Paths=%GAMEDIR%Content
Paths=../../../Engine/Plugins/OceanPlugin/Content
Paths=../../../Engine/Plugins/Mutable/Content
Paths=../../../Engine/Plugins/Runtime/Coherent/CoherentUIGTPlugin/Content
Paths=../../../Engine/Plugins/RoadEditor/Content
Paths=../../../Engine/Plugins/2D/Paper2D/Content
Paths=../../../Engine/Plugins/Wwise/Content

[/script/engine.renderersettings]
r.DefaultFeature.Bloom=False
r.DefaultFeature.AmbientOcclusion=False
r.DefaultFeature.AmbientOcclusionStaticFraction=False
r.DefaultFeature.AutoExposure=False
r.DefaultFeature.MotionBlur=False
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0
r.DepthOfField.MaxSize=0
r.SwitchGridShadow=0

[/script/tslgame.tslengine]
FrameRateCap=70

[Cr@zyThunderbird]

Tbh i must Update this, because the game don't gain much performance now from these tweaks (most of them are hardlocked now)

But nightshift for days atm I will make a updated tomorrow or so...

[skully]

I have just one question..
Actually its legal change the file.ini? i want more fps but i dont wanna be banned for this.

[Beggar Soldier]

Well then you dont even need to tweak your game

[Cr@zyThunderbird]

Tweak guide is actually outdated, but my specs are following (short form):

i7 5820k @ 4.2 Ghz
GTX 980Ti
16GB ram
and only SSDs

[Beggar Soldier]

What PC Do you even have?

[mimizukari]

@bennyhana why would that cause lag? doens't it kill things not visible so it increases performance? :|

[Joolin #ClashGG]

such as TimeBetweenPurgingPendingKillObjects=30

causes lag spike of death every 30 seconds

[Joolin #ClashGG]

A lot of these either...

1) Degrade visual quality without a boost to performance, or
2) Lowers Performance, or
3) Does nothing