» Thu May 17, 2012 8:38 am Note: I have FXAA off as well as anisotropic filtering, as i am forcing them on using Nvidia Inspector rather than the game's launcher which supposedly has some bugs. Also make sure to go through here and insert the line for your video card name in the sd3ddevice="your device name here" line! Set your game difficulty level (2 is adept), set your resolution and set your AA (display/imultisample=1 is "off), and/or turn on FXAA and set max anisotropy or leave them of and do it all in Nvidia Inspector.
Do not use the launcher when starting the game, start directly with tesv.Exe or the launcher will rewrite some parts of this.
With this ini file i can stand on a cliff near elgen and look towards the lake and see the water and trees and get 50 fps. Inside I get sometimes 100+ depending how closed in the area is and how much fire/water is there. All tree branches are moving adding more life to the world, the shadows also are possibly as good as we will get for now till bethesda addresses the issue on their end with a patch.
Please read through and tweak to your liking, some things i have turned off that you might like...Comment and give feedback.
Alphabetized to make it easy to find stuff!
[General]
bAllowConsole=0
bEnableStoryManagerLogging=0
bPreloadIntroSequence=1
bUseThreadedParticleSystem=1
fBrightLightColorB=0.5000
fBrightLightColorG=0.5000
fBrightLightColorR=0.5000
fMasterFilePreLoadMB=320.0000
iFPSClamp=30
iNumHWThreads=4
iPreloadSizeLimit=209715200
iStoryManagerLoggingEvent=-1
uExterior Cell Buffer=180
uGridsToLoad=20
uInterior Cell Buffer=16
[Imagespace]
bDoDepthOfField=0
iRadialBlurLevel=2
[Display]
bActorSelfShadowing=1
bAllow30Shaders=1
bAllowPartialPrecision=0
bDo30VFog=1
bDrawLandShadows=1
bDrawShadows=1
bDynamicWindowReflections=1
bFXAAEnabled=0
bFloatPointRenderTarget=1
bFull Screen=1
bMTRendering=1
bMainZPrepass=0
bShadowMaskZPrepass=0
bShadowsOnGrass=1
bSimpleLighting=0
bTransparencyMultisampling=0
bTreesReceiveShadows=1
bUseFakeFullScreenMotionBlur=0
bUseSunbeams=1
fDecalLOD1=3000.0000
fDecalLOD2=3500.0000
fDefault1stPersonFOV=90.0000
fDefaultFOV=90.0000
fDefaultWorldFOV=90.0000
fGamma=0.9200
fInteriorShadowDistance=5000.0000
fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=6600.0000
fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=5600.0000
fLightLODStartFade=3500.0000
fMeshLODFadeBoundDefault=1024.0000
fMeshLODFadePercentDefault=1.2000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=20000000.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeTreeDistance=11376.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=20000000.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeTreeDistance=8192.0000
fShadowBiasScale=0.1600
fShadowDistance=4000.0000
fShadowLODStartFade=2500.0000
fSpecularLODStartFade=2000.0000
fTreesMidLODSwitchDist=20000000.0000
iAdapter=0
iBlurDeferredShadowMask=5
iMaxAnisotropy=0
iMaxDecalsPerFrame=300
iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=50
iMultiSample=1
iPresentInterval=0
iScreenShotIndex=2
iShadowFilter=3
iShadowMapResolution=4096
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=4096
iShadowMapResolutionSecondary=4096
iShadowMaskQuarter=5
iShadowMode=3
iShadowSplitCount=2
iSize H=1024
iSize W=1280
iTexMipMapMinimum=4
iTexMipMapSkip=0
iWaterMultiSamples=4
sD3DDevice="NVIDIA "GeForce GTX 560 Ti"
[Grass]
b30GrassVS=1
bAllowLoadGrass=1
bDrawShaderGrass=1
bGrassPointLighting=1
fGrassDefaultStartFadeDistance=5000.0000
fGrassFadeRange=2500.0000
fGrassMaxStartFadeDistance=15000.0000
fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=0.0000
fGrassStartFadeDistance=15000.0000
iGrassCellRadius=8
iMaxGrassTypesPerTexure=5
[MAIN]
bCrosshairEnabled=1
bGamepadEnable=0
bSaveOnPause=1
bSaveOnRest=1
bSaveOnTravel=1
bSaveOnWait=1
fHUDOpacity=1.0000
fSkyCellRefFadeDistance=150000.0000
[GamePlay]
bShowFloatingQuestMarkers=1
bShowQuestMarkers=1
iShadowMaskQuarter=5
iDifficulty=2
[Interface]
bDialogueSubtitles=1
bGeneralSubtitles=1
bShowCompass=1
[Controls]
bAlwaysRunByDefault=1
bGamePadRumble=1
bInvertYValues=0
bMouseAcceleration=0
fGamepadHeadingSensitivity=1.0000
fMouseHeadingSensitivity=0.0500
fMouseHeadingXScale=0.200
fMouseHeadingYScale=0.200
[Particles]
iMaxDesired=2048
[SaveGame]
fAutosaveEveryXMins=15.0000
[AudioMenu]
fAudioMasterVolume=1.0000
fVal7=1.0000
uID7=0
fVal6=1.0000
uID6=0
fVal5=1.0000
uID5=0
fVal4=1.0000
uID4=0
fVal3=0.4000
uID3=466532
fVal2=1.0000
uID2=554685
fVal1=1.0000
uID1=1007612
fVal0=0.8000
uID0=94881
[Clouds]
fCloudLevel2Distance=462144.0000
fCloudLevel1Distance=52768.0000
fCloudLevel0Distance=36384.0000
fCloudNearFadeDistance=20000.0000
[TerrainManager]
bShowLODInEditor=0
fBlockLevel0Distance=45000.0000
fBlockLevel1Distance=120000.0000
fBlockMaximumDistance=350000.0000
fSplitDistanceMult=2.5000
fTreeLoadDistance=125000.0000
[NavMesh]
fCoverSideHighAlpha=0.8000
fCoverSideLowAlpha=0.6500
fEdgeDistFromVert=10.0000
fEdgeFullAlpha=1.0000
fEdgeHighAlpha=0.7500
fEdgeLowAlpha=0.5000
fEdgeThickness=10.0000
fLedgeBoxHalfHeight=25.0000
fObstacleAlpha=0.5000
fPointSize=2.5000
fTriangleFullAlpha=0.7000
fTriangleHighAlpha=0.3500
fTriangleLowAlpha=0.2000
[Trees]
bEnableTreeAnimations=1
bEnableTrees=1
bForceFullDetail=1
bPickSkinnedTrees=1
bRenderSkinnedTrees=1
fUpdateBudget=4.0000
uiMaxSkinnedTreesToRender=100
[Decals]
bDecalMultithreaded=1
bDecals=1
bSkinnedDecals=1
uMaxDecals=2500
uMaxSkinDecals=250
uMaxSkinDecalsPerActor=200
[LOD]
fLODFadeOutMultObjects=25.0000
fLODFadeOutMultItems=25.0000
fLODFadeOutMultActors=25.0000
fLODFadeOutMultSkyCell=1.0000
[Launcher]
bEnableFileSelection=1
bShowAllResolutions=1
uLastAspectRatio=4
[BlurShaderHDR]
bDoHighDynamicRange=1
[BlurShader]
bUseBlurShader=0
[Water]
bAutoWaterSilhouetteReflections=1
bForceHighDetailReflections=1
bReflectExplosions=1
bReflectLODLand=1
bReflectLODObjects=1
bReflectLODTrees=1
bReflectSky=1
bUseWaterDepth=1
bUseWaterDisplacements=1
bUseWaterHiRes=1
bUseWaterLOD=1
bUseWaterReflectionBlur=1
bUseWaterReflections=1
bUseWaterRefractions=1
bUseWaterShader=1
iWaterBlurAmount=3
iWaterReflectHeight=2048
iWaterReflectWidth=2048
[BackgroundLoad]
bBackgroundCellLoads=1
bBackgroundLoadLipFiles=1
bLoadBackgroundFaceGen=1
bLoadHelmetsInBackground=1
bUseBackgroundFileLoader=1
bUseMultiThreadedFaceGen=1
bUseMultiThreadedTrees=1
[ScreenSplatter]
bBloodSplatterEnabled=1
