ME3 Graphics tweaks

Mass Effect trilogy is build on Unreal Engine 3 which base settings can be tweaked by editing game configuration files - .ini-s.

GamerSettings.ini - is user's custom configuration where graphical settings are stored.

C:\Users\<USER_NAME>\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 3\BIOGame\Config

In Mass Effect 3 we don't see all graphical settings in main menu or in MassEffect3Config utility.

The main goal of this tweaks is to make the game look better by enable, disable, enhance and alter settings.

Improvements:

- Custom screen resolution;

- Disabled Post Process Effects - Bloom, Film Grain, Motion Blur, Depth Of Field, Ambient Occlusion;

- Increased Textures detailization;

- Increased Shadow resolution, saturation, filtering;

- Performance optimization;

Detailed descriptions are provided in Readme file;

Advantages:

^ World textures, shadows and characters looks sharp, less glowing, more detailed, more bright;

^ Mod use vanilla game engine settings that cause less impact on performance, none game crashes;

^ Possibility to safe with full compatibility add SweetFX, Reshade, ENB presets;

Disadvantages:

Bioware when creating Mass Effect games used Post process effects to hide textures with low resolution via blurring them;

(Depth of field, Bloom and Lens flares).

- When they turned off in config file, world textures may look less detailed.

> Use mods that increase textures resolution;

- World color schema may look 'washed out' - colors became less saturated.

> Use SweetFX, Reshade, ENB presets to alter game color schema (especially those that include HDR);

I recommend to add:

- Anti-aliasing in your graphic card to smooth world textures (greater screen resolution - less AA needed);

Multisampling (MSAA)+\- Sparse Grid Supersampling (SGSSAA)

1920x1080 - 2x

1680x1050, 1600x900 - 2x or 4x

1366x768 and less - 8x

Disabling Volumetric Fog:

Console command:   // off/on //;

disables EngineMaterials. FogVolumeMaterial rendering, which simulates fog on the horizon;

Disabling fog most noticeable in open terrain - on the planets with seeable horizon;

====================== INSTALLATION ======================

C:\Users\<USER_NAME>\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 3\BIOGame\Config > place file there > overwrite.

Compatibility:

ALOT - download optional file; overwrite file after ALOT installation;

Other texture mods - full;

DEINSTALLATION / rollback to default settings: delete GamerSettings.ini - the game will create a new file with default settings.

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