Shadows - reflections and pop-in fix

⭐ ⭐ (134 endorsements) 📥 6,814 downloads 📌 v1.2.1 📅 11/30/2024
🟠 Updated over a year ago

By martygod12 · Visuals

⬇ Download Mod Source: Nexus Mods ↗ 📅 Updated: 12/2/2024 📅 Created: 11/30/2024

🔍 Analysis

  • 👍 2.0% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
  • 🏆 #60 of 242 Visuals mods in this game by downloads

📋 About This Mod

Just my personal engine.ini tweaks to fix the game shadows, reflections and reduce pop-in issues.

Update 1. 2. 1:

- increased the r. Shadow. DistanceScale=5

- it pushes the treshold at which the higher quality shadows from vegetation are being cast

- resulting that more detailed shadows are visible at bigger distance from the player

Update 1. 2:

- fixed the dissapearing shadows from vegetation as you move further away from them

- sadly the values for r. Shadow. MaxCSMResolution=16384 adn r. Shadow. MaxResolution=16384 are bugged (or UE cant handle then) which creates issues where shadows are dissapearing as you move further away from them, its very noticable sadly

- I had to tone down the values to 8192, the dissapearing is fixed, but the shadows are still a bit flickery as you stand close to them (sadly thats probably the best that can be done), so if you want, you can turn the values back to 16384 if you dont mind the very obvious and close fading out of vegetation shadows

Update 1. 1:

- I am now running this tweaks alongside VynnGfx Optimized Tweaks

- Use the Base not Boost version of his mod to retain visual quality

- Removed a lot of unnecessary lines, that either did nothing, could be broken/bugged, or are already covered in the Optimizaton Tweaks mod.

- With this setup you will get the same visual quality, and gain around 10-15 extra FPS. Thanks a lot for pointing this out in the comments section.

- To install now, delete your current engine.ini file, download the Optimized Tweaks mod, follow the install instructions there and then copy the new engine.ini file to the location listed below.

Installation Steam version:

Copy the engine.ini into C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows

Installation GamePass version:

Copy the engine.ini into C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\WinGDK

What does this mod does?

1. Fixes the blurry and low quality reflections

2. Fixes the shadows draw distance, so no more ugly, low quality and flickering distant shadows

3. Increases shadows resolution, so shadows are much nicer and much less flickering

4. Massively increases draw distance of trees and other vegetation, which reduces the pop in issues to the minimum

5. Disables terrible bloom effect and reduces the terrible auto exposure effect, making the transition faster and less agressive

6. Also added some optimization and stability tweaks

Note that this tweaks pushes the game visuals even further then whats vanilla max settings, so be prepared to lose some FPS, therefore I really recommend using this tweaks only for high end GPUs.

Me myself having 4080S and playing at 1440p Epic settings. With this tweaks, DLSS quality and FG enabled I am getting around 90-100FPS in Zalissya, with DLAA and

📊 Mod Details

Game
Stalker 2 Mods
Author
martygod12
Version
1.2.1
Downloads
6,814
Endorsements
134
Category
Visuals
Created
11/30/2024
Updated
12/2/2024

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