Updated for Patch 1.0.5. I'd like to commend Bloober for their excellent work, testing, and responsiveness
Flickering/strobing with OLED? Turn off VRR. Change to free sync or nothing at all—ty to Mackievellian
Common UE Bugs Inside the main mod download a _troubleshooting tools folder for fixing common UE problems. These happen with vanilla UE games:
First thing to try—power off the PC, and boot it cold. This shouldn't fix UE, but I see it often when testing.
Crash on startup, low/inconsistent FPS, or really low-res textures (the config files are messed up—see folder with same name)
Crash to desktop with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED (the engine takes too long to respond to the GPU driver—see folder with same name)
The above failed, but the game is still performing terribly or massive stutters (shader cache is messed up—see Last Resort folder)
PC Performance Tuning/Troubleshooting The below applies to all new 3D games, in rough order of priority:
Remember to delete old versions of the mod
If you have low FPS, first try disabling overlays (e.g. Steam, GameBar, NVidia, SpecialK)
For AMD CPUs, I recommend disabling Core Isolation until AMD & Microsoft have a full fix
For AMD CPUs, if you haven't, please run AMD's latest chipset driver. It will often find important new or missing drivers
Disable overclocking for UE 5.0–5.3 games
For Intel CPUs, disable E cores for the game, by setting processor affinity to your P cores in Task Manager. Ty to Olek
Generally exclude gamename.exe and the game folder from antivirus real-time scanning
(Ideally also exclude %AppData%\Local Low\NVIDIA\PerDriverVersion\DXCache and %LocalAppData%\SilentHill2\Saved and %LocalAppData%\AMD\DXCache and %LOCALAPPDATA%\AMD\DXCache from real-time scanning)
Also exclude games from Control Flow Guard (click Start > type Exploit Protection > Click Program Settings > click Add program to customize > click Add by program name > type SHProto-Win64-Shipping.exe > Scroll down to Control flow guard (CFG) > Click Override > Switch to Off). Ideally also exclude SHProto.exe
Do a GPU driver removal with DDU in Safe Mode then reinstall the latest driver
Try enabling Resizable Bar more info here and intro video here. from my testing this doesn't make any difference for this game, but YMMV
My Current Todo List Please let me know anything I've missed—all ideas welcome:
Fix overly dark bar and other indoor scenes with raster
Fix remaining shadow boiling in vegetation
Fix cloth 30 fps frame cap
Fix cut scene 30fps frame rate cap
Fix FSR3 sharpness
Try to get DLSS FG working
Fix Steam Deck
Bisect (locate) final hitch
Fix shadow penumbra lines with VSM in some scenes
Fix animation chunking hitches
Problems? Please let me know:
Mod version = x.x.x
CPU and GPU
Any other mods that might affect it? Does it happen in vanilla?
Please provide screenshots or video if appropriate
Installed the mods exactly as you say to. The game has higher fps sure but now whenever I turn the camera it lags like mad and then eventually hard crashes my PC.
Thanks for the mod, the truth is that it improves a lot compared to the original but I have a problem, this mod forces the game to have to activate the DLSS preset E, but currently we have the DLSS 4 Preset K that looks much better so I don't know if anyone has a solution or if you can update the mod it would be excellent
OMG thank you SOOOOO much for this! I've played this game with RTX 2060 day one and it was quite annoyed to have FPS drop all the time! But since I found your mod verything is so smooth wow!
also please instruct how this mod works now about dlss presets if you have an nvidia 5000 card forcing latest dlss 4 preset j/k from nvidia app in all games, how this compare? does the selective preset function key of this mod still work or nvidia app forces the latest dlss4 preset as i inted it to do? i dont want the mod to use other presets, how can be exactly sure of what presets are being used? also, what are the best settings? cause i rememember there were a lot of problems such as shadow maps were worse quality but also halved the performace, or ray recostruction made reflex better but created a lot of problems and flickering and blurring... also leaves ghosting of moving object has never been solved....
are all these things solved nowdays? what is the best quality setting using the various function key to have th best RT, best RR, best shadows, berst reflection, best dlss preset, no ghosting, no flickering, no blurring, no ghosting? otherwise this become useless for people without experience, just too many things to set of which they don't know anything... in fact i played it with RR it had better reflection but werse flickering, ghosting, glitches... is it all solved now days? is this game really playable at a perfect state?
to be honest the ideal right now is to play without this mod, I used it and it worked well for me, in fact it gave me between 15-20 fps more, just that. but well leaving the fps aside, I recommend better instead of using the mod that uses nvidia profile inspector, currently from there you can activate almost everything that the mod allows: RR, DLSS4, PRESET K, ETC, now if what you want is for example, remove the vignette or unlock scenes at more than 30 fps there it could work for you, otherwise this mod is already half obsolete.
tanks fps even with ray tracing off, to 30-40fps with insane stuttering. on other mods i get consistent 60fps (mostly) using raytracing and almost all high settings. to be honest, im not even sure if the mod works as none of the function buttons operate correctly. also, chroma pak just doesnt seem to work? i had to manually turn off chroma for silent hill 2 in razer synapse.
Doesn't work. Nanite disabler seems to work, as I have less GPU usage in apartments, but the hotkeys and other stuff doesn't seem to work at all. Hotkeys don't work either.
No difference for me, i did every step, 5070 ti i7 13700k. The area where you fall from 90 to 60 fps for no reason still remain, still got lights stutter etc
Is it still working for you? I can't seem to get it to work. I'm definitely installing it correctly but the game just hangs up and crashes. I even got rid of my overclock to see if that would work but no luck so far. I also reinstalled the game after deleting everything in the folders.
After downloading this mod I manually put the PAK files per instruction and load the game. I press the designated keys but nothing happened or any changes. What am I doing wrong?
i have latest sh2 version and latest ultra plus version in paks and engine.ini in the correct path and ray recostruction .dll
i cannot tell if any difference is active, cause i have same fps and same graphics and all toggles don't work (from f1 to f10, only f11 makes the game freeze in window, i dunno if it's a toggle of the ultra plus).
what may have gone wrong? i just need to copy the mod in pak folder, i also copied di chroma mod, the suggested engine.ini in the appropriate folder, but it seems toggles and fuction key don't work so i don't really know what to do.
In the past it worked and i was able to make tests toggling with ray tracing, ray recostruction, dlss presets, fog, chromatic aberration, i always set the game by using toggle and function key... now they don't work so i assume the mod is not correctly installed, but it is.
Also i did the manual installation, i'm not interested in the ultra plus software, i only want the mod in the pak folder and function keys working.
The mod doesn't work for me no matter what I do, and I don't know what to do about the horrible shuttering that the base game's frame generation has. I install the mod files correctly, and even the "UltraPlusConfig.ini" file changes when I make a change in-game with the mod installed.
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Common UE Bugs
Inside the main mod download a _troubleshooting tools folder for fixing common UE problems. These happen with vanilla UE games:
PC Performance Tuning/Troubleshooting
The below applies to all new 3D games, in rough order of priority:
- Remember to delete old versions of the mod
- If you have low FPS, first try disabling overlays (e.g. Steam, GameBar, NVidia, SpecialK)
- For AMD CPUs, I recommend disabling Core Isolation until AMD & Microsoft have a full fix
- For AMD CPUs, if you haven't, please run AMD's latest chipset driver. It will often find important new or missing drivers
- Disable overclocking for UE 5.0–5.3 games
- For Intel CPUs, disable E cores for the game, by setting processor affinity to your P cores in Task Manager. Ty to Olek
- Generally exclude gamename.exe and the game folder from antivirus real-time scanning
- (Ideally also exclude %AppData%\Local Low\NVIDIA\PerDriverVersion\DXCache and %LocalAppData%\SilentHill2\Saved and %LocalAppData%\AMD\DXCache and %LOCALAPPDATA%\AMD\DXCache from real-time scanning)
- Also exclude games from Control Flow Guard (click Start > type Exploit Protection > Click Program Settings > click Add program to customize > click Add by program name > type SHProto-Win64-Shipping.exe > Scroll down to Control flow guard (CFG) > Click Override > Switch to Off). Ideally also exclude SHProto.exe
- Do a GPU driver removal with DDU in Safe Mode then reinstall the latest driver
- Try enabling Resizable Bar more info here and intro video here. from my testing this doesn't make any difference for this game, but YMMV
My Current Todo List
Please let me know anything I've missed—all ideas welcome:
Problems? Please let me know:
Be excellent to each other.
- Download the file ‘Ultra Simple Engine.ini Overrides 0.5’ from the mod.
- Open it and find the line
- Uncomment it (remove the semicolon) and change the value to:
You’ll also need to update the DLSS .dll file to the latest version for this to work properly.;r.NGX.DLSS.Preset=5r.NGX.DLSS.Preset=11This will set the DLSS Preset to 11, which corresponds to Preset K.Alternatively, you can add this directly to your game’s Engine.ini file:
[SystemSettings]
r.NGX.DLSS.Preset=11
I've played this game with RTX 2060 day one and it was quite annoyed to have FPS drop all the time! But since I found your mod verything is so smooth wow!
are all these things solved nowdays? what is the best quality setting using the various function key to have th best RT, best RR, best shadows, berst reflection, best dlss preset, no ghosting, no flickering, no blurring, no ghosting? otherwise this become useless for people without experience, just too many things to set of which they don't know anything... in fact i played it with RR it had better reflection but werse flickering, ghosting, glitches... is it all solved now days? is this game really playable at a perfect state?
gpu: intel arc b580 cpu: ryzen 6 7500f
edit: my bad, just installed wrong, it works fine, thanks.
i cannot tell if any difference is active, cause i have same fps and same graphics and all toggles don't work (from f1 to f10, only f11 makes the game freeze in window, i dunno if it's a toggle of the ultra plus).
what may have gone wrong? i just need to copy the mod in pak folder, i also copied di chroma mod, the suggested engine.ini in the appropriate folder, but it seems toggles and fuction key don't work so i don't really know what to do.
In the past it worked and i was able to make tests toggling with ray tracing, ray recostruction, dlss presets, fog, chromatic aberration, i always set the game by using toggle and function key... now they don't work so i assume the mod is not correctly installed, but it is.
Also i did the manual installation, i'm not interested in the ultra plus software, i only want the mod in the pak folder and function keys working.
How may i solve the problem?
Any updates on this would be highly appreciated.
I install the mod files correctly, and even the "UltraPlusConfig.ini" file changes when I make a change in-game with the mod installed.