This config file enables you to have an enhanced version experience without the need for an RTX card using Metro Exodus Standard Edition.

- Improved FPS
- Ultra settings with all settings maxed or enabled are capable on very low hardware @ 1080p (excluding hairworks)
- tweaked HDR and lighting to be more realistic and blur to be less annoying
- Made to be used in conjunction with The Ultra Realism Cine FX reshade preset created by Kycok_Xleba (http://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/11012/) after enabling the preset, I also enable Fidelity FX, you dont need to do this but it costs very little in resources.

Notes and other improvements that can be made:
- Disable fullscreen optimisations under compatibility mode
- Do Not run in ANY compatibility mode, it kills FPS... I used it as a fix for the dx12 bug where I couldnt get past the first screen. after this, it isnt needed, so turn it back off after the game starts up correctly
- I dont use any vsync, freesync or anything else, not even a frame limiter, but on higher end hardware feel free to limit fps, just know it isnt on by default

AMD Driver options under the game profile:
- Tesselation = AMD Optimized
- Freesync = Off
- Texture Quality = High
- everything else is disabled or left up to the game

- Also, open Task Manager and end the Radeon Host Application process, it uses CPU and has caused stuttering for me in the past



nVidia Users:

DLSS and Raytracing are set to 0 in the config, If you have an nVidia GPU, these can be enabled by changing the DLSS value to 1 in the config and changing Raytracing to 1 -high or 2 - ultra




Testing Hardware:
AMD A10 6930P 2.6 ghz quad core APU w/ R5 iGpu and RX460 4GB GDDR5 dGPU, 500GB SATA drive and 2x8gb 2400mhz dual channel ram running Windows 10 21H1


Minimum Requirements:
Anything better than the above... I'll put my neck out and say that a Ryzen 5 3400G w/ Vega 11 iGPU could play Metro Exodus comfortably at 1080p using this config. Mainly because a vega 11 has twice the Time Spy score than the hardware mentioned above.


If your computer cant play the default settings, either go down to high settings or disable 'curves' in the reshade menu and this should give a decent FPS boost



INSTALL

Copy into your Metro Exodus file Directory where user.cfg is located.