Improved Visuals and Performance

Update 3: The Crown of Sand / Eva Memory crash should now be fixed in version 2. 0a!

Huge thanks to invalidacy & ReActif for determining the cause of the crash! It turned out we'd set a single cvar too high for the engine, and as this cvar was only used in a very small number of scenes (eg. the Eva memory) the problem wasn't immediately apparent, thankfully they managed to narrow it down to the "r. VolumetricFog. HistoryMissSupersampleCount" cvar, and by reducing that the game now works fine!

Both the main file & the performance-config have been updated to reduce this value (as version 2. 0a).

Update 2: added some new config cvars which should improve performance dramatically, at the cost of some extra load time - this extra load time only counts when loading a new map though, reloading a map you're already on (eg dying or reloading a save) shouldn't be effected by it.

This new performance tweak is probably worth the extra load time though, removing pretty much all stutters for me and letting the game run at a solid locked 60 FPS at 1440p!

If wanted, you can remove this new fix by reading the Notes section below.

Update: added screenshot that has the new tonemapper disabled - now you can compare against the game without any color differences.

Note how much sharper & less blurry the image looks, and how textures & meshes of distant objects (cabinet on the left, vault door on the right, lights near the back) are improved thanks to the increased LODs.

If you want to use this config without the new tonemapper, just remove the "r. TonemapperFilm=1" line from the top of the file.

Improved Visuals and Performance

Thanks to the dev-console enabler on PCGamingWiki I've been able to test out a bunch of different cvar tweaks: UE4 actually has a ton of different graphics settings under-the-hood, sadly CV's settings menu only touches a tiny portion of them.

I've gone through & tried messing with dozens of different variables, this config file contains the ones I felt had the most positive effect on the game.

Features

[]Larger draw/LOD distances for objects, characters, terrain & grass... far better detailed objects & much less visible pop-in!

[]Increased shadow-map resolution & distance.

[]Sets various things (such as light function quality, AF...) to the highest quality UE4 provides - better quality than the games settings menu can give you!

[]Improved TAA filtering.

[*]Changes game to use UE4's improved film tonemapper (really not sure why the