Boost your Odessy FPS!

[Einar Donarsson]

Gave me a nice boost of 10 more fps >>

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But, again, the problem is not the graphics settings, the problem is the occlusion culling which is completely borked and not doing it's job. Still, huge thanks for this tip. o/

i can tell you why it gave you 10 more FPS. Cause your Shadows are off. Odyssey does NOT allow to put shadows out anymore. Horizons lets you deactivate shadows. I reported this as a bug and wrote it into alpha forums but it got no attention

 

[Einar Donarsson]

Hello folks, I'd like for you to try this...

So, as you all know, we have both Horizons and Odessy in our game folders. Throughout trying everything, literally everything, this is the only meaningful impact I found to work around some extra frames-per-second.

You'll be pleased to know you'll get the biggest boost on low-to-mid teir PCs by doing this change - of at least 10 extra FPS!

See my results, below.

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Source: https://imgur.com/Q2EglvU

Before attempting this, make sure you backup your Odessy GraphicsConfig first!

Simply, go into your "\Elite Dangerous\Products\" folder, and copy the file "GraphicsConfiguration.xml" from the folder "elite-dangerous-64"

Then, paste the GraphicsConfiguration file into your "elite-dangerous-odyssey-64" folder.

Overwrite > You're all good to go.

Make sure you do not have your game running beforehand. If you did, restart it.

Also, I had my Nvidia Cache turned off, although I saw no noticeable difference.

I hope this helps.

The shadows in your horizons Config are less dark and "deep". That is what saves a lot of ressources. Odyssey removed the option to put shadows out.

 

[Peter Drakon]

I checked both files. For shadows there are separate sections for places (station, asteroid field, on foot etc.) for each setting level (low, middle etc.).

Shadow settings have clearly some differences, but I think the reason may be because of default settings.

When you copy your old (ED:H) settings over your new one you practically delete a lot of new settings not existing in the old settings file. My guess is then these are used as defaults, and that is what causes the FPS improvements.

 

[ebbrell]

Omg, no don't just copy the old file over the new.
There are new xml tags in the new file and values which are different comparing the two files.

Madness.

If you did want to change values you should be using the config override xml file.

 

[Bonsaipanda]

i can tell you why it gave you 10 more FPS. Cause your Shadows are off.

Shadows are not off but the depth for shadow calculation if closer to the character so the texture sizes are smaller.

 

[Cmdr. Numa]

Tried, but no luck, my FPS still get absolutely butchered in Odyssey.