Questions regarding UserSettings.txt

CaptainKuijt · June 2018

Greetings! I was wondering if anyone could explain to me what exactly these three settings do:

SET MaxCoresToUse.4 "X"

SET RequestedNumJobThreads "X"

SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads "X"

Does MaxCoresToUse apply to cores *and* threads? Say if I have a 6 core with 4 threads, the optimal value would be 10?

I'd also like to know what this setting does

SET GPUSmoothingFrames "X"

I suspect it's how many frames the GPU is allowed to buffer, but I'm not entirely certain. If so, what is the optimal value for those of us running SLI?

Lord_Wrath · June 2018

Ive only gone off of this. Before Summerset update this game was working off a single core. I was curious and coming to see if these settings would change based off multi-core support.

CaptainKuijt · June 2018

Yeah, I was hoping one of the developers could tune in here.

Yakidafi · June 2018

MaxCoresToUse.4 -1 for all cores/ logical cores. Changes nothing for me setting it to different values.

RequestedNumJobThreads applies to if you want to use threads or not. -1 for on or 0 for off. Got no performance change turning it off. just a slight hickup first time but could have been cause of some other thing.

RequestedNumWorkerThreads This one did not have any performance change for me for some this has helped with decreasing cpu stutter but I dont have those. Did not notice changes in threads/ handles either.

GPUsmoothingframes I think is pre rendered frames, which I have set to 0. I dont know what is best setup for you, I run single card and could not really notice a difference between 0 and higher numbers. Due to multi core support now?

Since I get no difference I wonder if they disabled some of these settings for now? Or anyone else got an idea.

SirDopey · June 2018

I've been playing a bit on the PTS testing builds recently. The first time I ever installed the PTS was after the release of summerset but I have noticed a big performance difference between PTS and Live, (PTS is way better plus looks amazing compared to live).

I've been assuming its because of server load differences but after seeing this maybe its because of a difference in the two user.ini files. I'll have to compare the two when I get home and see.