Starfield Guaranteed FPS Boost

There are 2 main files - one without atmospheric scattering and one with it. I recommend the Atmospheric Scattering file because without it the sky loses a lot of flavor and can be too bright. Atmospheric scattering will decrease fps, however. Also adds fSkyCubemapAtmosphericScatteringIntensity=0. 5 to control the intensity of the shadows associated. Decrease this value for much darker shadows, or increase for lighter shadows.

This is the real deal and is the mod to get to get the game running optimally, and I have the screenshots to prove the FPS claim (Look at the green number in the upper left of the images). For those of you wondering what my hardware is, I have a GTX 1070ti for my GPU and an i7-7700k for my CPU and that is what this mod was tested under to get these results. For settings I am currently using FSR2 with Resolution Scaling of 65% and Sharpening of 35% with 1080p resolution. This mod changes many settings through StarfieldCustom.ini which cannot be changed in game or through the default ini files. This not only improves graphical fidelity in some cases, but also gives a great performance boost. Feel free to enable or disable some of these settings in the file to your liking.

DISCLAIMER: If you are just looking to remove blur and fog and a few heavy hitting FPS settings all while keeping the game ultra, you can go into the ini and search for these and remove/comment out the OTHER settings you see fit. Some settings may be intertwined so you might have to test once or twice. I have it set up for max performance and that was my goal. If you just want to disable that annoying fog and the blur effects and the hard hitting FPS stuff all while keeping the details ultra then look for blur, fog, VRS, displacement, or other hinderances as keywords in the ini and remove unrelated settings so only those ones apply.

In Starfield, Bethesda put a lot of useless performance reducing features which make the game look uglier and run horribly. Through much testing I have found many culprits which are very demanding. Here is what I have done/found:

Major Fixes:

- Disabled Terrain Displacement Mapping. Displacement mapping in this game makes the terrain look extremely bumpy and weird, as if the landscape has eczema. I disabled this so it now uses bump mapping which is a big fps increase (probably one of the biggest) and arguably makes the actual terrain better looking. Imagine that.

- Disabled Terrain Tessellation

- Disabled Volumetric Lighting. This makes it so you can see infinitely in the distance without all the fog and blur, all while increasing FPS even though the view range is vastly increased because of this. It's unbelievable how I can see forever in the distance and get an FPS boost.

- Disabled Texture Streaming for Terrain. This makes movement in the worldspace have less stuttering/occasional lag