Watch Dogs Optimization XML

Confession: Just today I switched to Lunayah's mod after he explained to me what should be done in order to erase DoF from the mod. And...well...his wind is already pretty cool.

With your edits I was actually trying to bring some life into the absolutely lifeless TheWorse wind (that is after you fix the jerky tree behavior). Now having wonderful wind and animations (vegetation, clothes) working.

Sorry man, I really appreciate your hard work and I think so does everyone else. I stand by my statement.

 

This mod actually comes with a patch.dat with no DOF, you just have to check that option in the installer or overwrite the patch.dat and fat using the file in the package, there's a video in my first post of this thread showing the wind effect on grass, if you're getting the same effect from another mod then you really don't need to change any wind settings, I suggest you try an ultra preset or high preset with the other mod though, it will retain the effects of the mod and optimize values that don't make a very noticeable visual difference, plus then you can play with settings like detail view distance which can really add some quality in long views if you're not using DOF.

 

wow thank's man my game run much better

 

I erased the camera-lib from the other mod which did the trick. ^^

I can't say I have that grass effect but then again...admitedly I'm not very fond of the effect shown in the video. ^^ Personal taste I guess.

Oh and btw...I think this might be important: The video contains a story-spoiler. I think you should at least mute the sound. Thanks.

 

Glad you like it, after I first made the optimizations I finished off the game in a few days, it's actually a pretty fun game when your not dealing with game crippling performance issues.

To each his own I guess, personally I love the waving grass, reminds me of the field out back of my building that no one ever cuts the grass in lol, I'll upload a new video, I could swear I stopped recording when the phone rang.

 

Had the worst kind of weather an hour ago...ingame. The grass moves almost as much as in your video, with just the mod. So I'm really fine with that. ^^

Performance is also good, but I might persuade myself to have a second look at your config for even better performance I guess.

 

If you do download it these are the lines you can alter for better performance, these are my settings from a High preset from my optimization file

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MaxShadersToPreload="4750" decreased for performance boost
MaxShadersToPreloadPerFrame="175" decreased for performance boost
StaticReflectionIntensityDay="80" makes daytime reflection greater, default is 50
RainNumSplashesPerSecond="80"  decreased for performance boostdefault is 99 I think
RainDensityFactor="80.0" same default value as above
RainOccluderLength="160.0"
ParticleUniformFogDensityFactor="450" decreased for performance boost
LRShadowCullViewDistance="240.0" decreased for performance boost
LRShadowHighPriorityNearDistance="180" decreased for performance boost
AmbianceParticlesMaxStarted="3500" decreased for performance boost
AmbianceParticlesMaxMemory="888472" decreased for performance boost
AmbianceParticlesDelayBeforeRespawn="5" Increased for performance boost - increase more or decrease to allow more particles on screen
AmbianceParticlesDelayBeforeDestroy="27"  decreased for performance boost, increase to allow more particles on screen
MaxTessellationFactorPerScreenSpaceUnit="200"  decreased for performance boost - default value is 250
MaxTessellationFactor="8" decreased for performance boost - default value is 10
WaterReflectionQuality="7"  - default value is 10
TerrainDetailViewDistance="750" decreased for performance boost
MaxDecalCount="200" decreased for performance boost - default is 300 I think
MaxDecalCountPerType="50" decreased for performance boost - default is 100 I think
ParticlesLightsFadeDistance="110" decreased for performance boost
FSMShadowRange="650.0" decreased for performance boost 
FSMShadowQuality="90.0" decreased for performance boost
RealTreeCapsMaxDistance="80.0f" decreased for performance boost, don't go below 50 or tress will look aweful at close range
MaxSimplePhysObjectNormal="20" decreased for performance boost
MaxSimplePhysObjectHeavy="15" decreased for performance boost
MaxPawnRagdollNormal="15" decreased for performance boost
MaxPawnRagdollHeavy="5" decreased for performance boost
MaxBreakableStaticObjectsNormal="20" decreased for performance boost
MaxBreakableStaticObjectsHeavy="15" decreased for performance boost
MaxBreakableDynamicObjectsNormal="50" decreased for performance boost
MaxBreakableDynamicObjectsHeavy="25" decreased for performance boost

All below can be decreased slightly, but I wouldn't recommend by much

PHP:

HairSpecularMaxNumLights="7"
HairSpecularFadeDistance="24"
SkinSpecularMaxNumLights="7"
SkinSpecularFadeDistance="18"
This one can be decreased a bit more, 30 or 40 for instance
ParticlesMaxNumLights="50"

Resolution map changes

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ShadowMapSize="5120" you can make this 2560 or 1280
CascadedShadowMapSize="5120" you can make this 2560 or 1280
RainShadowMapSize="1024" you can make this 512 or 256
FSMShadowMapSize="5120" you can make this 2560 or 1280
ReflectionTextureSizeX="2048" you can make this 1024 or 512
ReflectionTextureSizeY="2048" you can make this 1024 or 512
WaterNextGenQuality="1536" you can double this one for better water quality, or half it but I prefer double

there are a lot of lines you can change to simply disable things but I haven't disable any effects in any of my presets
things like muzzle flash and HDR can be turned off, and many more like these

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AllowRainDropSplash="1"
LRShadowCoverOnlyTerrainArea="0"
UseHalfSizeSceneTexture="0"

the 3 above you really shouldn't change unless you want to, muzzle flash and rain drop splashes are the only 2 I would disable if you wanted, the rest I would leave disabled

 

The Wind Simulation should be dynamic so what you experienced was a change in the intensity of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=947FTmTuICU

Most Modders do totally wrong on this part and hurt the System more and make it unnatural behaving

 

used "ultra" from the easy installer and the in game options are things like textures to medium/ Shader to low fxaa x2 and not even fullscreen?

When in game it looks horrible and runs like ****? something went wrong my end?

Tried from the manual install. Same again. something odd here.

 

Would be cool if we would gather all parts of the Configuratable Subsystems into 1 Giant post

like for example the Real Tree System stuff is missing here in your examples

 

That's all the line in the XML file does is change wind minimum and maximum effect on grass, by using the XML instead and leaving the other games files untouched it can't do any harm, the only thing I've messed up in game was at one point making grass appear at intersections by putting the texture blend distance value to low but even that didn't cause any issues with performance, in fact it ran faster and looked pretty funny.

Also when I edit texture resolution maps through the XML it doesn't cause lost textures in the game so this is the best way imo to modify in game values, you can up the count of some cool visual things like rain drops per second, and particle density a lot easier too than unpacking and editing a .dat file like lots of people (including myself) have done in an attempt to edit the settings.

Yeh that's definietely not right, it should be set to full screen and it should have ultra textures, and also run better, can you upload the XML for me?

maybe I uploaded a bum file, I don't see why textures would be at medium on the ultra when they are at high on the high preset, I'll check my files too.

 

<RealTreeProfile Quality="VeryHigh" />

does it still has any effect from Far Cry 2/3 ?

 

Do you mean I post every section like this, this is from a High preset.

PHP:

<Environment>
<quality id="ultra"
DisableSky="0"
AmbientSkyColorMultiplier="50"
AmbientGroundIntensityOverride="1"
StaticReflectionIntensityDay="80"
curveRimLightIntensity="100"
curveGlobalLightsIntensity0="30"
curveGlobalLightsIntensity1="60"
curveGlobalLightsIntensity2="80"
curveGlobalLightsIntensity3="100"
ProbeSkyBounceMultiplierOverride="1"
curveProbeSkyDirectMultiplier="50"
curveProbeSunBounceMultiplier="150"
curveWorldAOMultiply="50"
curveLightHDRMul="50"
RainNumSplashesPerSecond="90"
RainDensityFactor="90.0"
RainOccluderLength="170.0"
ParticleUniformFogRangeThreshold="0.25"
ParticleUniformFogDensityFactor="675"
DisableGodRayCloudMasking="0"
HighQualityParticles="1"
HighQualityEnvironmentDOF="0"
HairSpecularMinNumLights="0"
HairSpecularMaxNumLights="7"
HairSpecularFadeDistance="24"
SkinSpecularMinNumLights="0"
SkinSpecularMaxNumLights="7"
SkinSpecularFadeDistance="18"
ParticlesMinNumLights="0"
ParticlesMaxNumLights="60"
PhysicsQuality="VeryHigh"
ParticlesLightsFadeDistance="130" />
</Environment>


Good question.
There is an empty <RealTreeProfile /> line in the default settings of a fresh XML from Watch Dogs, let me try with different settings and make comparison screenshots

 

Please, is it possible adjust the joystick deadzone via xml file? Does anyone know how? Thanks...

 

common.dat\engine\actionmaps\inputactionmapcommon.xml

In this file you can find the DeadZone parameter that you can change and experiment.

 

What you have done is called witchcraft.....unbelievable

your settings gave the game performance boost and it became visually stunning

I can't thank you enough
i just have 2 questions
1)how to decrease the rain density?
i2)s there a tweak to decrease stuttering while driving ?

Applied on vanilla WD

 

Thank You, if you want to play with rain density change these 2 lines in the XML

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RainNumSplashesPerSecond="90"
RainDensityFactor="90.0"

You can decrease the amount of rain drops per second and the Rain Density, make sure you make your XML read only again after you save.

The best values to play around with to help with stuttering are the resolution maps and the detail view distance, the textures in this game are extremely compressed so streaming to many of them hits your system hard, this way you load detailed textures the closer you get to them, which may cause some texture pop in.
Lines like the ones below can be changed to really increase performance

PHP:

ShadowMapSize="5120" to 2560 or 1280
CascadedShadowMapSize="5120" to 2560 or 1280
RainShadowMapSize="1024" to 512

There are a few more too

 

Rendering the Smoke particle is taking some resources it seems

 

Definitely, the particle density has a big impact on performance, I'm making a full version of my installer now that will let you change the values manually for all resource demanding effects and also put in options for what kind of Ambient Occlusion and Anti Aliasing you want to use, I'm new to C# but it's turning out pretty good so far, I'll upload as soon as it's finished and tested.

 

Hey guys this is a great thread, i thought ill add something to help if its ok, i spent a few nights trying to get my rig to run it good so this my results so far using medium range rig.

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[Kadzait24 Watch Dogs MOD 5.0 Beta Test 3] Plus a few changes To get a
gtx 570 to run at an average of 30Fps at night in Rain at a main crossing road with alot traffic.

Please follow Kads Readme in the zip,
when your in the game option menu setting his options change textures to medium,
and after youve set the ingame options exit out,
make a few changes to the GamerProfile [Documents Location] like he says,
then apply the read only tick.

Please Note: Changes below were done in the [XML Doc File] inside the engine,
so unpack [Kadzait24 Watch Dogs MOD 5.0 Beta Test 3] and add the changed Values below to the [XML Doc File] and repack.

[Please set the values below]

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\\\\\\SHADOWS [optimized]\\\\\\\

Location

<Shadow>

<quality id="high"
ShadowMapSize="2048" [Huge Fps Diffrence 7-10]

RainShadowMapSize="512" [Small Fps Diffrence 2-3]

FSMShadowMapSize="2048" [Tiny Fps Diffrence 0.5]

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\\\\\\MOTION BLUR [OFF]\\\\\\

Location

<MotionBlur>

<quality id="console"
UseMotionBlur="0"

UseVelocityMotionBlur="0"

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\\\\\\DEPTH OF FIELD [OFF]\\\\\\

Location

<DepthOfField>

<quality id="pc"
UseDepthOfField="0"

UseCinematicDepthOfField="0"

UseArtisticDepthOfField="0"

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\\\\\\\\\SSAO [optimized]\\\\\\\\\\

Location

<SSAO>

<quality id="hbao+_high"

UseHBAOPlus="1" [Small Fps Diffrence 2-4]

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\\\\\\\\AntiAliasing [OFF]\\\\\\\

Location

<AntiAliasing>

<quality id="smaa"
AntiAliasingMode="0"

MultiSampleMode="0"

MultiSampleQualityLevel="0"

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\\\\\\\\Geometry [optimized]\\\\\\\

Location

<Geometry>

<quality id="ultra"
KillLodScale="1.0" -

ClusterZoomFactorScale="0.7" -

= [Small Fps Diffrence 1-2]

TerrainLodScale="0.8" -

MinZoomFactor="0.55" -

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Tested Location
The Wards ctOS Control Center Locate the guard with the access code

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