Mechwarrior Online - User.cfg Guide for Performance and Competitive Play 

I've resisted for a while, but after spending half a match on river city sub 30fps I give up. Same positions getting at least 80 now. Thank you, and thank carbon.

Thanks for pointing out the vegetation thing....so many maps I'm trying to aim past trees and now it explains why some people do really well when I don't in similar circumstances.

We have to go to testing grounds EVERY time we load the game - ahh I get it, thanks so much!

Wow! Thanks for taking the time to educate us and level the playing field. None of this was documented and I can see how such knowledge can be abused to other people's detriment. You guys rock in a completely transparent and refreshing way! It gives me hope for the game.

I wish those cfg's would never be a thing to change. I feel forced to use them now if I wanna play competively.

Oh wow! This is an amazing video that I can utilize for my potato PC! Thank you guys so much. Maybe now I can even play on the colosseum map without my framerate dropping to single digits. Easily one of the best vids I've seen for MWO. Also, I can't wait to see how this will effect my CS23 gameplay. Thanks guys

You made me go deeper into the game. Much appreciated! Always great to see new vids and play on the same field with you Gee! Enourmouse amounts of thanks to Carbon for making it possible.

Hey, i'm just going through this and i have written down some feedback/thoughts/questions throughout my own process of watching and applying this. Myself i play the game since '13/14 and started with an old Notebook from '09 (Core2Duo @2GHz, GTX GT220M, 4GB, HDD) and had to rely on those tweaks back then. They were also documented well back then but this video tops it in accuracy and focus on the most important stuff - much much better than trying to make sense of what people rambled about in the forums! Now, after returning to MWO again-again again i got a stronk PC (5600X, 6700XT, 32GB, SSD) but with MWO being what it is, i still need some tweaks to even out hiccups/lags. So thank you, Carbon and all the geeks who collected all the info along the way (again) for condensing all the info in a short and precise walkthrough for everyone to follow along in a reasonable pace! 🍪=) *Feedback follows...* -didn't include adding the .cfg files to the folder (for n00bs) -Q: how about including a .cgf file that is not modified already as a baseline for people who want to start at zero and tweak only to their liking? I see you already added some flavour (laser beams, smoke etc.) -audio levels of the both of you seem uneven/incosistent at times, Carbon is loud and clear and your voice appears to be quieter and i think further away from the mic (background noise/static from computer maybe or open window/traffic(?)) -9:56 the movemenet makes it hard to see what you want to showcase in this clip; visual comparisons are more useful when standing still imo; after replaying it 5 times i finally saw some objects not being loaded with the line of code disabled (fiery chimneys left side for example) -10:50 particlesLOD 0.25 is not normal as stated in the .cfg - it is a heavily reduced amount actuially (PPCs not jizzing (at all) like crazy they do by default) -16:45 ;Terrain texture detail range: Does it have to be exponential numbers (256, 512, 1024, 2048, ..)? Or are those meters? -autotargeting can be toggled!!?? \_ö_/ -oversized hearts for my mechbutts!!?? \_ö_/ -i like that you decided disabled excluding trees/water by default -Explanation to ;UI perf improvements gfx_inputevents_mouse_move_threshold = 0.0166 This makes the UI basically 60fps - it's explained in Ash's Discord. By default if you click on armor up/down it would only register so many clicks, sometimes ignoring inputs, with this it registers at a much higher rate -including the legal questions/statements by PGI and comp rulemakers is a very based moved! o7 Again, thanks and good job!

Doing God's work here fellas. Thanks!

Really taking that goal of bringing equilibrium to the game seriously! Well done Geeram, I'm with you that some of these things should not be able to be removed, but feel like my hand is forced if I want to be competitive in the top levels of comp queue and even top 12 if my team makes it this year. I hope PGI takes more pride in their game and puts more effort into disallowing these clear and obvious competitive advantages to exist in the game. Thanks for being the anti-negging/get wrekd scrub/you're worse than me so you're human trash of so many top tier players and actually seeking to involve people and bring people into the community, not drive them away. Keep up the great work, and thank you as well to carbon!

Thanks for this guys. It's great that you have shared this with the community

Super helpful after a power outage wiped out my config the other day - thank you!

As a programmer, that had gone through the documentation of the game engine, there were a couple settings here that I had not considered. Well done.

Thank you both, very much .

Awesome to see so much info all in one video, I had to search and search and ask around to find out this stuff.

Thank you both for a cool and updated video.

thank you very much for the great video, i much appreciate it 👍

Really great video and explaination. I've been trying messing around with the cfg file for so long..I just wish there is a fix to make the game less sluttering specialy when playing as a light

you guys are awesome thank you

great video instant sub

Thanks GR!

So is this how people change the graphics settings to remove shadows and miscellaneous graphics effects to make it easier to see enemy mechs?

Hey, so to update you about the particles drawing through objects... that seems to be related to the r_UseSoftParticles setting.

I feel so relieved I just sold everything in MWO, and uninstalled. The last 6 months have been miserable, playing was a chore, and haven't played in over a month. Hope you win Worlds. ✌

I just got a high refresh display with vrr and for it to work in a match I have to alt enter twice to go to windowed then back to fullscreen. Anyone else having this issue?

this doesn't seem to work anymore.

With CS24 starting in a few month are there any updates you would make?

great vid, thanks Geeram

I have a question regarding quality of the advanced zoom. I have noticed if i lower my settings to low and then allow the config file to refine the resolution to make things look nice, it has the unintended consequence of lowering the resolution/sharpening of the advanced zoom. Is there any way to retain a high quality advanced zoom while using the config file options to optimize the rest of the settings?

Great work, buddy!

Can you change the HUD colour? for Colourblind ppl. (one voice is a litlle louder ) Great Work !

Can someone help me, i've followed all instructions ,but it seems trees are definitely not disappearing

Gives me an idea for how I can get ppcs and strikes to start rendering again. A few patches ago, I lost all ability to see where shots were coming from for some ballistics and ppcs. It's nice to see where a shot came from. I don't find the hud indicator to be that good for it, unless I'm being shot from behind and couldn't have seen the shot, anyway.

Just FYI, your settings cause particles and other stuff to draw through solid objects. This probably was not intended.

The remove trees crap should be banned honestly!

Thanks Gee! I didn’t know this existed.

So much effort! TY

Anyone got any ideas why this might not work under Linux with Steam? I'm not sure if any settings are applying, but the tree user.cfg setting most definitely isn't :( Not a permission problem, user.cfg and tuning.cfg set to 777 Game runs fine otherwise, has for a couple years. Proton is our saviour. EDIT: looks like nothing in user.cfg is applying at all. Hrm, directory is fine, game can write to the sub directory Shaders (if i delete them they will regenerate). Gotta be something specific with MWO running under Linux Proton.

Good stuff! Thank you very much!

Can we remove trees without tuning all others quality to low?

back when i had potato PC in 2018-2020 i disabled every setting i could and one of them broke advanced zoom. it no longer displayed digital picture in picture, but zoom level was slightly more than 2.0x without advanced zoom perk taken. loved playing with these settings cuz it didn't cause disorientation and dizziness every time i rotated camera. WANT THEM BACK! (but forgot wtf i did back then. cant replicate) trolls don't say something like: dont play with advanced zoom bro. 2x simply not enough to see in current sniper meta where everyone spams ppcs across half a map. Im at disadvantage.

Thanks a lot!

Please do a guide for linuex.

what is the fastest testing ground to load in?

I tried this and it didn't seem to make any difference. The pop-in of objects and geometry is just so jarring I want that to go away. I just want max graphics without the texture and geometry popping in my face from 2 feet away. maps like HPG are atrocious for this.

for some reason it won't allow me to save changes to the config saying I dont have permission to open the file. Anybody know how to fix this?

The culling trees seems to only work on removing forest colony classic for me. Emerald Taiga still has them as do other maps.

where do i put this for a normal install?

nah man the removing trees and water is disgusting. how can pgi leave that in the game... incredibly nice of you to make this video, but part of me will also resent you for it. despite it being, unfathomably so, allowed by pgi, i am REALLY not looking forward to playing against people using such settings... in my opinion it is literally cheating.

"4) Every time you load the game, make sure you go into testing grounds first" Please tell me that isn't mandatory...

Hmm what about non steam users?

Which setting turns on the hacks?

I'm shocked you don't have EVE Online in your library.

and then you all cry about this game dying while nobody wants to play against such cheating pricks. basicly same happened to the q3 engine multiplayer games in the past. people exploited configs like no tommorow and suddenly nobody wanted to play them anymore or pay for the servers.