PC Tsw4 Enhancement | Lighting & Graphic Enhancement V4.7 (inc Lossless Scaling Guide)

I have the new one, will come back if I can't figure how to install a preset from another route.

 

Just copy and paste the settings from a similar route, it’s that simple

 

Ah right, sorry i was getting mixed up with your light file jetwash. Ok ill check it out

 

Copy and paste from where to where. I have looked over my file folder and can't see anything other then the pak files or the save file in documentation. Sorry

 

You do this from inside God Mode. Fire up TSW, opn the God Mode "page" icon, scroll down to the route you want to copy, then highlight and copy all the text in the .ini command box. Select Semmeringbahn, and paste into the empty box.

 

solictr, thank you, I was able to now figure it out and got it done.

 

I guess I was a bit late in my little graphic. My daughter works faster than this ole left-handed Geezer, hopefully, it will assist others.

 

SGTDRE, that was a very good graphic explanation of what to do. Thank you so much for the work.

 

You're welcome, it's the least I can do to give back.

 

Hi, for Semmering route I use Rosenheim parameters for ultra configuration (RTX4070 super with 3440x1440 monitor). Works fine on many scenarios except around wiener Neustadt (scenario with OBB116 TEC(40540) Spielfeld Strass .. Part2) where I have many UE4 crashes. What are the relevant parameters to change first ?

 

There isn’t anything in this that should be causing UE4 crashes. I’m not sure what to suggest.

 

The only time I had crashes was relating to not having enough memory available. After I changed these settings to increase the amount, I stopped getting the crashes. Have a look at this thread, it's a different route but it might be worth checking.

 

Hi, I have 64Go RAM but this morning, I managed to finish this scenario: strange.

 

Good that you could complete the scenario - but if it happens again, it's worth increasing your virtual memory pagefile size in Windows. Mine was automatically set to 4GB, and I increased it to 16GB - after that, no more Unreal Engine crashes.

 

with the new update and new upgrade.
anyone else who uses this configuration or close to it? how do you deal with stutters and what's the best performance rating for this?
thanks.

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor 3.70 GHz
32g ram
RTX 3080
Awaiting the arrival of a
Thermalright Assassin Spirit 120 EVO Black CPU Cooler, 120mm PWM Quiet ARGB Fan CPU Air Cooler

 

What resolution are you playing at?

 

3840x2160

 

I seem, to have a similar setup to yours, same CPU, 32GB 3600Mhz CL16, but the GPU is slightly different. 4090 @ 4K 1.78x DLDSR. But GPU is not important here, the stuttering we are talking about in TSW is not caused by GPU, unless you have a heavily undepowered GPU for your resolution and graphics quality to begin with.

The stutters were largely mitigated with reuse of shaders parm and then this seems to have even improved with JetWash's mod, but they are still there.
Problem is that the stutters in TSW will happen even with the most powerful CPUxRAM combos, although it will always be true the more powerful system the better. But even the brutest of brute power systems cannot overcome the engine limitations. Only an engine upgrade might solve this in the future.

On a sidenote, when watching some cab train ride videos, I always envy the drivers the stutter free experience they have in person. Not the scenery, we have come so far that the scenery is really amazing in game, but the smoothness Only if the game experience was as fluid as the real-world footage. Strangely, I would have guessed that making a game stutter free would be far easier than having aphoto-realistic graphics, but it does not seem to be the case.

 

it all depends on graphics card + resolution + the amount of VRam you use/have
also cleaning out DX-Cache after a driver update is a must

i also use the following steam launch commands -DX12 -high -USEALLAVAILABLECORES

 

I dont think so... I had exactly the same amount of stuttering on 1080Ti. vs. 3080Ti vs. 4090 using the same CPUxRAM, same resolution and graphics settings.
DX shader cache is emptied during driver update by default, no need to clean it manually.

 

Hi
Is it normal to see only one LIRR with the new "God Mode - Alpha 0.5.8" : at the first run on new LIRR V2 commuter, I have already these parameters:

r.ViewDistanceScale=2
r.D3D.ForceDXC=1
r.Shaders.FastMath=0
foliage.LODDistanceScale=3
foliage.DitheredLOD=3
grass.MaxUpdateFrequency=60
r.StaticMeshLODDistanceScale=0.1
r.SkeletalMeshLODBias=-3
grass.CullDistanceScale=3
r.LightMaxDrawDistanceScale=5
r.MinScreenRadiusForLights=0.01
r.AllowLandscapeShadows=1
r.DistanceFieldShadowing=1
r.DFDistanceScale=10
r.DistanceFieldAO=1
r.AmbientOcclusionLevels=3
r.BlurGBuffer=-1
r.AmbientOcclusionRadiusScale=1.0
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=2
r.RenderTargetPoolMin=400
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=1
r.FastBlurThreshold=7
r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=1
r.LightFunctionQuality=1
r.Shadow.FilterMethod=0
r.ShadowQuality=5
r.Shadow.Virtual.ResolutionLodBiasLocal=1
r.Shadow.DistanceScale=2
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades=5
r.Shadow.MaxResolution=2048
r.Shadow.MaxCSMResolution=4096
r.Shadow.SpotLightTransitionScale=2048
r.Shadow.RadiusThreshold=0.001
r.Shadow.CSM.TransitionScale=1.0
r.CreateShadersOnLoad=1
niagara.CreateShadersOnLoad=1
r.Color.Max=1.0
r.Color.Mid=0.6
r.Color.Min=-0.0001
r.ToneMapperGamma=2.6
r.EyeAdaptionQuality=1
r.DefaultFeature.AutoExposure=1
r.DefaultFeature.AutoExposure.ExtendDefaultLuminanceRange=1
r.AmbientOcclusionLevels=3
r.AmbientOcclusion.Method=1
r.GTAO.Combined=1
r.GTAO.ThicknessBlend=0
r.GTAO.Downsample=0
r.GTAO.FalloffEnd=200
r.GTAO.FalloffStartRatio=0
r.GTAO.SpatialFilter=0
r.GTAO.TemporalFilter=1
r.GTAO.UseNormals=0
r.SkylightIntensityMultiplier=0.4
r.Upscale.Quality=4
r.TemporalAA.Upsampling=4
gm.AutumnTreeMuliplier=0.6
r.TemporalAASamples=2.5
r.Streaming.FullyLoadUsedTextures=1
r.Streaming.HLODStrategy=2
r.LandscapeLOD0DistributionScale=3
ts2.passengers.ForceStationSpawningOverride=1​

 

That looks like the old LIRR to me. Make sure you have the latest version of GodMode

I’ll aim to have presets for LIRR2 available today or tomorrow.

 

Ok, it looks like LIRR and LIRR2 use the same name in their definition file. Presumably you won’t play the old one anymore so you can overwrite what’s there without issue.

 

for me by doing an nvidia driver update
the dxcache never gets emptied
so i have to empty it myself

 

Ok, maybe it depends on how you do it. If you simply install it over the older version without uninstalling first and checking the clean install, it might not get deleted. I have never tried that approach because that is just asking for trouble.

 

Hey all.

Version 4.4 now up on TSC which re-introduces the .sav version (as some people missed it) and text versions also. Includes an updated pre-set for Fife Circle which is designed to work with the EP as well as versions of LIRR Commuter

TSW 4 | Lighting & Graphic Enhancement v4.4 - Train Sim Community

 

Thanks Jetwash, does this include Semmeringbahn? If not, I'm sure a few of us can club together and gift you a copy. Do you have a donation link for PayPal or similar?

 

It doesn’t and I don’t. People have kindly offered but I haven’t felt it fair that I accept donations. I’m in a bit of a catch 22 because I’d love to be able to do all the routes as I think (I mean, I am biased) it really enhances the game. I do it for the enjoyment of it and like that others enjoy the mods too but this one has grown into a much bigger project than I ever imagined (getting close to 26,000 downloads for the TSW4 version alone) and some people are almost relying on it for their enjoyment of the game, which is a nice thing.

Let me have a think about it. I’ve never set anything like this up before so would have to look into how to do it.

Thanks again for the kind offer.

 

bb

No problem, and thank YOU for all your efforts and time.
In the meantime I will copy over the Rosenheim ini config.

 

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JetWash I’d be willing to contribute if you set something up

 

Me as well and as said above Ko-fi would be a good option

 

+1

 

+2

 

+3

 

Wow, I'm really humbled by the support. Thankyou.

I've just added this text to the download page of the mod.

As I'm sure you can appreciate, keeping this mod up-to-date is both time consuming and expensive. Some people have kindly offered to gift me DLC and up to this point I've resisted but as people keep asking I've set up a kofi page. If you wish to donate a small (and I mean small) amount then I'd be very grateful. I will continue to purchase the DLC I would have anyway, but any funds received will go towards ones that I would otherwise have waited for a sale for, like Semmeringbahn, meaning I can update the mod on, or close to, release day.

Thankyou and I hope you enjoy the mod

JW

https://ko-fi.com/jetwash

 

Hope this is successful for you JetWash. I’m happy to be your first supporter. Hopefully that gets you on the way to adding Semmeringbahn!

 

That’s all the funds will ever go towards. I’ll
Hopefully be able to add Semmeringbahn very soon

Thankyou.

 

I Just dropped some Duckets that should help you get a DLC.

 

Thankyou, that’s very kind

 

Just dropped a small donation fella. Thank you mate!

 

Some well deserved beer money heading your way too!

 

Thankyou all. Due to your generosity Semmeringbahn will be heading to the mod shortly. I’ll try and do it today, if not today it will be tomorrow.

Thanks again.

 

Couple quid heading your way! ...I think that's a word right?

 

Chucked a few quid in to help you carry on making such a difference to the game. Thanks again!

 

You’re all legends. Thankyou!

 

Honestly guys, I’m blown away. Thankyou.

Real life took over yesterday and I didn’t get chance to get Semmeringbahn out. I’ve pretty much got Ultra sorted but it seems a bit like Bernina Line and is taking a bit longer to get the performance balance right.

I’ll do my best to get it out today, and as with LIRR it will be both a .sav version as well as text. Having the text means that if you use the Ultra preset ordinarily but this one specifically is a bit much you can always swap it out for High by copying and pasting.

 

Take your time! I think it’s the least we can do to support you a bit, given how much you improve the game for some of us and how much of your own time and money you must have spent. As far as I’m concerned you don’t have to spend it all on DLC, if there is some left over, buy yourself a beer or two.

I’d happily support others as well if they let us know how to!

It’s thanks to the whole modding community that I still play TSW at all. I’d virtually abandoned it before finding mods.

 

Guys,

I hope you feel these donations were money well 'spent'. I was worried I was over cooking it because I was really struggling to get a good performance vs visual quality balance. I got it to a place I was happy with so started making the pre-sets up and I got a heck of a shock when I loaded the game up in its default configuration.

This is a shot of the default route in 4K, 90% screen percentage with in-game settings on Ultra and Sky Quality 'Very High'. This is the game in its 100% vanilla state. Look at the fps counter and GPU usage in the top right corner. I was being generous with that screenshot, coming round the previous bend the fps was in the 20’s. This is on an RTX3090 btw with a 5800X3D running the show...



....and this is what it looks like with the exact same settings above with the new 'High' pre-set applied. The fps is also pegged at 60 with the Ultra pre-set applied



I presume I'm not the only one seeing this?

I will have to depart with tradition here and make the low preset more similar to the medium, as medium performs way way better.

DTG Alex DTG JD Were you aware of this? Something in the set up is really hurting the performance on Semmeringbahn unnecessarily.

 

Hi all,

v4.5 is now available with Semmeringbahn included

TSW 4 | Lighting & Graphic Enhancement v4.5 - Train Sim Community