These can be found in the in-game settings under Gameplay and Graphics. There’s a stack of settings that can be messed with in this file but you should try disabling anti-aliasing, depth of field and action camera too. This was the solution for the original XCOM and it also works for XCOM 2 and was provided by MGSD. Find “OnlyStreamInTextures” and change it to “OnlyStreamInTextures=True”.The purpose of this page is give you a general understanding of the process and to point you to the locations of the various resources within the XCOM Wiki to enable you to do so.
#Xcom long war ini tweaks mods#
Find “ThreadedShaderCompileThreshold” and change it to “ThreadedShaderCompileThreshold=Y” (Where Y is the amount of PHYSICAL CPU-cores your CPU have. Creating Mods for XCOM:Enemy Unknown 2012 (XCOM:EU 2012) (at the moment) involves editing the hexadecimal code values of the game executable.Find “bAllowMultiThreadedShaderCompile” and change it to “bAllowMultiThreadedShaderCompile=True”.Find “PoolSize” and set it to “PoolSize=X” (X depends on the amount of VRAM you have, 512MB, set it to 128, 1GB set it to 256, 2GB set it to 512, 3GB and higher set it to 768.).Find “UseMinimalNVIDIADriverShaderOptimization” and set it to “UseMinimalNVIDIADriverShaderOptimization=False”.Find “DisableATITextureFilterOptimizationChecks” and set it to “DisableATITextureFilterOptimizationChecks=False”.Find “bInitializeShadersOnDemand” and change it to “bInitializeShadersOnDemand=True”.Find “PhysXMeshCacheSize” and change it to “PhysXMeshCacheSize=16”.Find “PhysXGpuHeapSize” and change it to “PhysXGpuHeapSize=64”.Find “MipFadeOutSpeed1” and change it to “MipFadeOutSpeed1=0”.Find “MipFadeInSpeed1” and change it to “MipFadeInSpeed1=0”.Find “MipFadeOutSpeed0” and change it to “MipFadeOutSpeed0=0”.Find “MipFadeInSpeed0” and change it to “MipFadeInSpeed0=0”.Find bUseBackgroundLevelStreaming and change it to “bUseBackgroundLevelStreaming=True”.Find bUseTextureStreaming and make sure it says “bUseTextureStreaming=True”.Find the following settings and make the following changes:.Make a backup of the file before making the changes below.Open the XCOM 2 configuration folder and find XcomEngine.ini (c:\users\yourname\My documents\my games\XCOM2\XComGame\Config\XcomEngine.ini ).Click the launch option button and enter -nostartupmovies.Right Click on XCOM 2 and select properties.So how can you improve things ahead of some kind of official update? Here’s some tips including disabling the intro screens. Having been playing the game on an I7, GTX 980 with 16Gb of RAM it’s not been too much of a problem but there are periods where performance takes a hit. We’ve seen a lot of concerns about the performance of XCOM 2 since it launched and it’s taken a few days for the community to figure out ways to improve things for gamers who are experiencing performance issues.