Sunday 7 April 2013

Improve your computer performance in SWAT4

We bring you couple of tips that can help you in increasing your game smoothness and FPS. Hints were prepared by Sttus and though these might not work for all, give them a try if you experience any HW-related lags or FPS drops.

- Running the game in compatibility mode can affect performance. Right click on your SWAT4.exe, then go to Properties, Compatibility and change it to following: Windows XP SP 2, Windows 2000, Windows 98, ... (you can try any of these, some might help more, some less, or it won´t help at all)

- INI improvement 1: go to your SWAT4.ini and find [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]. Seek and change UseTripleBuffering=False to UseTripleBuffering=True. You can get performance gain as high as 70%

- INI improvement 2: recommended for lower computers, is changing graphic settings. In the same INI file make the following changes:
[Engine.RenderConfig]
RenderDetail=0
DisableBspBumpDynamicSpecular=true
WorldDetail=Low
TextureDetail=Low
UseRealtimeMirrors=False
Allow20Shaders=True
DisableExtraAntiPortalClip=False
FluidSurfaceDetail=Off
DynamicShadowDetail=Off
GlowEffectDetail=Off
BumpmapDetail=Off
You can also try setting Allow20Shaders to false or RenderDetail=-1. It's about try and fail. Ofc, backup the file before applying changes. We cannot guarantee any performance gain, try it on your own risk and don't be disappointed if you notice no change, but let us know if you do.