A new Persona 3 Reload mod enables Screen Space Global Illumination for much better visuals while allowing users to turn off some visual options for better performance.
The P3R Graphical Enhancement mod, which was shared on Game Banana, is a collection of configuration file edits that improve the game's visuals considerably by enabling Screen Space Global Illumination, which is turned off by default in the game due to how demanding it can be on certain system configurations. By editing some other values in the configuration file, it is also possible to turn off the default ambient occlusion and ray-traced reflections for better performance with little impact on visuals. You can find the lines to add in the configuration file located in C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\P3R\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor below and some comparison screenshots here.
Commands
(place this above the following commands) [/script/engine.renderersettings]
- r.SSGI.Enable 1 (enables SSGI)
- r.SSGI.Quality 2 (sets the quality of SSGI, level 2 seems to be the best balance for graphics and performance but if you have spare fps you can increase the quality setting (up to a max of 4) to reduce SSGI artifacting)
- r.SSGI.LeakFreeReprojection 1 (increases quality with low perf impact)
- r.GlobalIllumination.Denoiser.TemporalAccumulation 1
- r.AmbientOcclusionLevels 0 (disables the default AO for extra performance, I noticed no visual difference)
- r.Shadow.MaxCSMResolution 4096 (doubles the shadow resolution, decent visual upgrade for a mild performance cost)
- r.Shadow.MaxResolution 4096
- r.SSR.Quality 4 (increases the quality of non ray-traced reflections, highly recommended if you disabled RT reflections)
- r.SSR.HalfResSceneColor 0 (increases the quality of non ray traced reflections, highly recommended if you disabled RT reflections).
- Optionally, if you want a large performance improvement, you can disable most ray-traced reflections with the following command:
r.RayTracing.Reflections 0
Persona 3 Reload is now available on PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and Xbox One worldwide.
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