This tweaks together with the tweak described above fixed almost all of the temporary performance issues I had. The more dead bodies and projectiles the Unreal Engine has to render, the worst the performance will be, especially in fights. The second most important tweak in terms of retaining FPS is to reduce the time to pass before dead bodies and projectiles become eligible for removal.
I did not noticed any quality loss while playing with low physics effects, but the tweak reduced the drop in FPS significantly. The most important tweak necessary to prevent Borderlands 2 from dropping significantly in FPS when fighting many enemies in an environment populated with many animated objects, is to set the in-game video option PHYSX EFFECTS to low. Find the property in the file WillowEngine.ini and change its value as shown below:ĭefaultPostProcessName=WillowEngineMaterials.RyanScenePostProcess Performance Tweaks A nice side-effect of disabling those lines is a gain in performance. I love the comic style textures of Borderlands 2, but do not like the black outline.
To make the ammo texture load instantly, find the four properties shown below in the file WillowEngine.ini and change their values accordingly: MipFadeInSpeed0=0 MipFadeOutSpeed0=0 MipFadeInSpeed1=0 MipFadeOutSpeed1=0 If not disabled, you have to watch blurred ammo textures most of the time.
One of the most annoying and absolute unnecessary feature when playing on a PC is texture streaming of ammo. Now whenever you start Borderlands 2 you should be taken directly into the game, not seeing as many advertisement videos as before. Add the option -nolauncher separated by a space, in case you already have other options set. Select Properties from the context menu and under the tab General click the button labeled as SET LAUNCH OPTIONS. To do that, navigate to your Steam Library and right-click the Borderlands 2 image. The next thing you may do is skipping the splash-screen, which forces you to hit Play to start the game. In the file WillowEngine.ini find the section and prepend a semicolon to the following lines to make them look like this: StartupMovies=2K_logo Hence it's best to disable as many of them as possible. Watching the advertisement videos again and again is very annoying and time consuming. I disabled Vertical Sync in the Borderlands 2 in-game options to avoid potential conflicts.
Most of the tweaks require to edit either the file WillowEngine.ini or WillowGame.ini which can be found in the folder located at:Ĭ:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\My Games\Borderlands 2\WillowGame\Config\ Driver Tweaks
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