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UE4 Graphical Engine.ini Tweaks

By opsedar

Despite limited graphical options available, the game is on Unreal Engine, allowing tweaks on its Engine.ini configuration file.

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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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11 Feb, 2021 @ 7:21pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Configuration File Path

Graphical Tweaks

Closing Notes

Comments

Configuration File Path

Navigate to this folder (Copy and paste this on Windows Explorer Path)

%LOCALAPPDATA%\DrakeHollow\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

Find Engine.ini and open it with your editor of choice.

Graphical Tweaks

Inside Engine.ini will have some default values.

Add [SystemSettings] below the last line as header for graphical tweaks below.

Disabling Vignette Effect

This option should disable only the constant vignette effect as I personally dislike it especially when entering island full of corruption. Clutters the screen too much. Additional info here[www.pcgamingwiki.com].

r.Tonemapper.Quality=1

Increasing Shadow Distance

This option will increase the distance before shadows start to disappear from your field of vision.

r.Shadow.DistanceScale=5

Increasing Foliage Distance

This option will reduce the grass pop-in as your character moves as I found the default value too distracting and way too low.

foliage.LODDistanceScale=5

Should look like screenshot below if you're using all of the tweaks.

Closing Notes

Boot up the game normally and the effect should take place immediately.

There's little to no impact to fps I'm experiencing using these tweaks, hopefully the devs can add these as an actual graphical options in the future.

5 Comments

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Drexl 1 Apr, 2023 @ 12:43am

Are you aware of any way to disable the weird shading? It's like a dithering or hatching layered on basically everything.

Icarus 13 Aug, 2022 @ 1:48am

brilliant!

Maginera 9 Mar, 2021 @ 2:55am

The shadows resolution are kinda low on the max setting like most UE4 title
you can add theses line if you wish to have more detail shadows, tho i recommend a good gpu if you want to keep high framerate. Or if you don't mind losing few frames just like me lmao
r.ShadowQuality=5 ;5 is max and default
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades=5
r.Shadow.MaxResolution=4096
r.Shadow.MinResolution=4096
r.Shadow.MaxCSMResolution=4096
r.Shadow.RadiusThreshold=0.001

opsedar [author] 8 Mar, 2021 @ 10:20pm

Awesome find there! Yes, me too found the vignette effect is way too intense, hopefully the devs can add this as a toggle option. I don't mind much about the game's AA implementation, but the having the grass & shadows pop in right in front of you as you play just kills the immersion for me.

Maginera 8 Mar, 2021 @ 3:40pm

Thanks for the guide , specially the vignette effect is way too much for me.
I use the Gamepass version and the game seems to use FXAA as AA solution, dunno for the steam version so here the setting i use for the engine.ini to enable TAA instead.
I am also using a different "Shadow filter method" which is trying to simulated soft shadows for long range object & sharpen shadow for close object the effect is good enough but got some bad news with it ,cost more performance on the GPU, low shadows quality will make them "dithering" dunno if that's the correct word to describe this. Anyway thanks again o/
r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=2
r.TemporalAACatmullRom=1
r.TemporalAAPauseCorrect=1
r.TemporalAACurrentFrameWeight=0.15
r.TemporalAASamples=2
r.Shadow.FilterMethod=1

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