Ultra Plus Best Performance and Visuals for Everyone

Only download Ultra+ mods from Nexus or Ultra Place Discord. We do not upload anywhere else.

What is Ultra+?

Ultra+ provides comprehensive engine tuning, visual enhancements, and performance balancing to maximize your game experience for as many ranges of hardware as possible.

Support: All support is provided via Discord. We do not provide support on Nexus. There are many people willing to help in Discord.

Updates: Mod updates are provided first via UPM and Discord. Nexus is often out of date.

Feature Requests: Feel free to request features in Discord. We can modify most things in UE games now including some game asset modifications.

https://theultraplace.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ultra+ Documentation | https://discord.gg/ultraplace" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Discord | https://theultraplace.com/Support" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Support U+

https://theultraplace.com/games/hogwarts/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View full documentation on the website

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Quick Start

• [] Install using https://www.nexusmods.com/site/mods/1586" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ultra+ Manager (UPM) (recommended) or manual installation [] Configure settings using UPM or edit config files [] Press F12 in-game to apply settings (disable Steam screenshots if conflicting or change the Apply Settings keybind in UPM) [] Load presets: apply uplus_defaults then a quality preset (low/medium/high/veryhigh/epic) [] Check game-specific tips below for detailed information

Manual Installation: Extract the mod files to your game directory.

https://theultraplace.com/installation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Full Installation Guide | https://theultraplace.com/configuration" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Configuration Guide

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Overview

U+ for Hogwarts Legacy is an end to end overhaul with significant focus on improving Raytracing visuals and performance. It includes custom RT systems and tuned color grading presets.

Game Tips

• [] For RT Skylight to function correctly, dynamic lighting must be enabled. If you experience instability then disable dynamic lighting and RT skylight. [] RT Skylight can be very expensive [] Dynamic lighting also fixes certain visual bugs in specific game locations and changes RT settings depending on player location and action (such as flying) [] For most stable experience - disable dynamic lighting, RT skylight, and RTAllOfTheLights

• []Recommend RTAO [] If you want the best possible visuals, revert the game to the version prior to the release of mod tools. All newer versions have decreased visual quality.

• [] none - disables reflection denoisers, most temporally stable reflections and best visually, but has specular noise and white spots - prefers lower reflection smoothness [] no_rr_1 - uses UE reflection denoiser, more stable that no_rr_2, some specular noise, some instability [] no_rr_2 - uses RT spatial reflection denoiser, least stable temporally but has the least specular and white spot noise [] ray reconstruction - nvidia only, most stable, tends to blur image - use RR preset E - this can be configured via NVPI (NVIDIA profile inspector) - it must be done per game instead of globally. The default preset will be noisy.

Configuration

AutoApplyConfig - off,on

automatically reload settings when config changes - primarily to be used with the UPM overlay

Bloom - game/0-3

Bloom intensity (0. 0 = off, 1. 0 = default, 2. 0 = double, game = use game default)

ChromaticAberration - game,off,on

Recommend disabling in most games as it often just blurs the image for no benefit

ContactShadows - game,flickery,floaty

by default game has flickery contact shadows, this is distracting, alternative is to make the contact shadows more floaty

DebugLogging - off,on

enable verbose debug logging to UE4SS console - use ALT+D to toggle at runtime

Denoising - game,none,no_rr_1,no_rr_2,rayreconstruction

Controls denoising method. none=raw reflections (specular but sharp), no_rr_1=standard denoising, no_rr_2=spatial filtering only, rayreconstruction=DLSS Ray Reconstruction. Use RTShadowQuality to control shadow/AO sample counts.

DepthOfField - game,off,on,on_less_blurry

depth of field control - off reduces noise in cutscenes

DynamicLighting - off,on

required for RT skylight - controls skylight parameters based on 430 tuned locations, modifies RT radius based on location, turns off certain features in some game locations, increases RT settings when flying

EnableKeybinds - off,on

Enables individual setting keybinds if they are available, does not change global keybinds

Fog - game,off,on

Turns fog on or off, if on_with_lumen is provided then it allows enabling fog in lumen space (GI and reflections)

LODBias - game,off,minuspoint5,minus1,minus1point5,minus2

Forces textures to be higher resolution, -0. 5 is the safest, more can cause frequency patterns to appear, some games benefit from more than others

LODDistanceScale - game,high,veryhigh,epic,ultra,insane

Draw static meshes and foliage at higher quality further away

LightDrawDistance - game,x1_0,x1_5,x2_0,x2_5,x3_0

light draw distance scale

LightingMode - game,ssao,ssgi,rtao,gtao

game/ssao/ssgi/rtao/gtao

LightingPreset - vanilla,vanillatweaked,realism,fantasy,harys,fairytale,darkmoor

vanillatweaked/realism/fantasy/harys/fairytale/darkmoor/vanilla

MotionBlur - game/0-1

U+ improves motion blur quality in every game by default, recommend a small amount of blur ~0. 2

RTAllOfTheLights - game,off,on_high,on_epic

force all light sources to cast shadows and RT shadows, on epic increases the limit of max RT shadowed lights

RTShadowQuality - game,veryhigh,epic

RT shadow and AO samples per pixel. Ignored when Denoising=rayreconstruction (RR uses 1 sample)

RTSkyLight - game,off,on

Raytraced skylight - ray reconstruction is required

RTWater - game,off,on

Raytraced water

ReflectionSmoothness - game/0. 0-2. 0

Reflection smoothness (0. 0-2. 0, vanilla = 1. 5, default = 1.

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