Awesome work, thanks for this great sum of useful information!
I would like to add a tipp as many will be looking at their fps counter while tuning their game:
FPS Counter. Easy way for switching on and off
If you are bored typing
fps SHOW START at the console menu every time in order to see the fps performance of your rig you may find this of use:
In the same directory as the conf.ini (the famous MyDocuments/ etc etc... directory)
Find the file RCU
Open it with the text editor
at the bottom add following lines of text:
@a aa fps SHOW START
@a ab fps HIDE STOP
aa
save and close
From now on, if during the game you decide to start the fps display, press Shift-TAB, type aa press enter, exit with Shift-TAB. The fps measurement will appear on your screen.
To remove it, repeat the procedure typing ab
Of course, if you have the Console Information Window open, you can type the command there.
The last line aa in the RCU file spares you from all the work, with it every time you start the game you have the fps measurement displayed automaticaly (you can remove the line
aa of course if you do not want this).
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