Beyond Ultra Settings

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Note: I made a very similar mod for Metal Gear Rising as well!

1. DESCRIPTION

A fully stable, performance friendly graphics mod.

Extensive performance profiling & in-game testing was done on a GTX 1060 6GB and a RTX 2080 super. This avoids reaching the engine limits, huge framerate drops, and last but not least: is fully stable!

There's multiple versions to choose from based on users requests:

• []Recommended, that was thoroughly tested, one with and one without FXAA,

  []Alternative, that adds more distant shadows (Like Distant Sunlight Shadows), with or without FXAA. It's a bit more demanding.

  []Extreme, that maxes out LoD and shadows resolution (16k) at the cost of performance. Comes with a "Virtual Photography" version which maxes out literally everything for cool looking screenshots. Both are really, really demanding - but I would recommend the Extreme version if you have a 3060ti or better.

  2. FEATURES

  • []Higher draw distance & Better LoD: The low detail planes of pseudo-terrain overlayed on top of actual geometry are pushed much further making them less noticeable. Buildings and the like are also more detailed, you'll see more small props being rendered even far away. Additional formations of rocks, trees and roads are rendered in the distance.

    []An additional Shadow Cascade: meaning shadows are casted further, providing shadowing from the sun even at longer range, without lowering close shadows resolution too much.

    []Less grass & terrain pop-in.

    []Fully stable and maintains a steady 60 FPS at resolutions up to to 1440p. Yes, even on Mother Base. On a 2080 Super, 1440p60hz locked.

    To go along with these tweaks, I would recommend using HBAO+ on Quality setting instead of the game's Ambient Occlusion (SSAO). HBAO+ looks far better but is only available on Nvidia GPUs and is more demanding.

    3. INSTALLATION

    []Use SnakeBite Mod Manager. Install only one version. If you want to try another, uninstall the current one first.

    []Set everything to Extra High in the game's settings. If you switch a setting to High, you'll get the vanilla High setting - I didn't edit those.

    [](For Zeta users) Make sure to disable Zeta's "Advanced Graphics Opti