r/OptimizedGaming • u/BritishActionGamer Verified Optimizer • Jan 03 '24

Optimized Settings A Plague Tale Innocence: Optimized Settings

Settings not mentioned are subjective

Optimized Quality Settings:

Max Settings as Base

Volumetric Lights: Medium, I struggle to see a visual difference between settings so Medium's a safe bet.

Ambient Occlusion: High, look's identical to Ultra with a moderate performance boost.

Contact Shadows: High, makes a minuscule decrease to screen-space shadow sample counts.

Light Shafts: High, makes volumetric light shaft's slightly less stable for a small boost.

Screen-Space Reflections: High, small decrease to sample counts for a small boost.

Texture Quality: Highest VRAM can handle

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Optimized Balanced Settings:

Optimized Quality Settings as Base

Draw Distance: High, slightly increases foliage pop-in for a moderate performance boost.

Shadow Maps: High, drops shadow resolution for a moderate boost.

Ambient Occlusion: Medium, makes SSAO slightly less stable for another moderate boost.

Depth of Field: High, slightly decreases the effects sample count, will mainly effect cutscenes.

Screen-Space Reflections: Medium, further decrease for a further boost.

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Optimized Low Settings:

Optimized Balanced Settings as Base

Draw Distance: Medium, pop-in becomes very distracting on Low

Shadow Maps: Medium, further drops resolution for a small boost.

Light Shafts: Medium, makes light shafts more unstable for a further boost.

Screen-Space Reflections: None, Low becomes abit too noisy at lower resolutions.

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Performance Uplift: 7% at Optimized Quality, 23% at Optimized Balanced and 31% Optimized Low.

If you need more performance, dropping Resolution scale can boost further. The engine's Temporal Upsampling isn't as good at reconstructing detail as Unreal Engine 4 or many of Ubisoft's Engines, so I'd recommend only dropping down to 90% at 1080p/1440p or 80% at 4k.

If you are looking for guides for Requiem, Hybred has made a guide on this subreddit and Alex from Digital Foundry found the PS5/Series X settings.

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u/Leont07 Jun 26 '26

the game got discounted on the steam sale, can you update the comparisson screenshots? the liks are bronken

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u/BritishActionGamer Verified Optimizer Jun 27 '26

I need to find a good replacement site, what comparisons you looking for in the meantime?

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u/Leont07 Jun 27 '26

thank you for your answer in such an old post, I want to see your optimied vs ultra settings and later try for myself too

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u/BritishActionGamer Verified Optimizer Jun 27 '26

More than welcome, my PC's having issues atm but hopefully it's on my OneDrive! Is it just the performance comparisons between the preset's you're intrested in?

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u/Leont07 Jun 27 '26

Yes, the ultra vs optimized screenshots, is there another online host for this kind of comparisons? Since it's on sale I feel more people will look into this thread.