Avowed

Overview

U+ for Avowed reduces stuttering, significantly reduces noise, implements a custom skylight system for more atmospheric lighting, and provides full control over improving visual fidelity while balancing performance.

Setting	Options	Keybind	Description
AutoApplyConfig	off,on		automatically reload settings when config file changes
BetterReflectionSDFs	game,off,on		Increases the resolution of meshes in global software lumen space, most noticeable in reflections
Bloom	game/0-3	CTRL+F3	Bloom intensity (0.0 = off, 1.0 = default, 2.0 = double, game = use game default)
ChromaticAberration	game,off,on		Recommend disabling in most games as it often just blurs the image for no benefit
DLSSAutoExposure	off,on		Toggles DLSS Autoexposure (a DLSS feature) in most games this should be on, but some games like Stalker2 can have artifacts with it on
Denoiser	game,none,temporal,rayreconstruction	F2	Changes global illumination and reflection denoising - allows enabling ray reconstruction - temporal high settings increase the amount of temporal information to reduce noise at the cost of ghosting
DepthOfField	game,off,on,on_less_blurry		depth of field control - off reduces noise in cutscenes
DynamicSkylight	off,on		dynamically adjusts skylight intensity based on time of day for more appropriate lighting
EnableKeybinds	off,on		Enables individual setting keybinds if they are available, does not change global keybinds
ExtendedFogQuality	game,epic,ultra,insane		extended volumetric fog quality settings
ExtendedShadowQuality	game,epic,insane		epic matches in-game epic, insane is higher quality
Fog	game,off,on		Turns fog on or off, if on_with_lumen is provided then it allows enabling fog in lumen space (GI and reflections)
HardwareLumen	game,lighting_mode0,lighting_mode1		HW lumen quality - lighting mode 1 can be much more expensive for some
HighQualityTracing	game,off,on	CTRL+F8	More accurate tracing of meshes for reflections and global illumination
LODBias	game,off,minuspoint5,minus1,minus1point5,minus2		Forces textures to be higher resolution, -0.5 is the safest, more can cause frequency patterns to appear, some games benefit from more than others
LODDistanceScale	game,high,veryhigh,epic,ultra,insane		Draw static meshes and foliage at higher quality further away
LightDrawDistance	game,x1_0,x1_5,x2_0,x2_5,x3_0		light draw distance scale
LightShaftIntensity	game/0-0.2		Intensity of screen space light shafts, many games set this too high
LightingAO	lumen,lumen_less_noise,ssao,gtao	F7	Changes ambient occlusion method between Lumen, SSAO, or GTAO - lumen_less_noise is the safest default as full lumen may introduce shimmering/noise
LightingMode	game,standard	F8	no other lighting modes at this time
LightingQuality	game,standard,high,veryhigh,epic,insane	CTRL+F10	Standard lighting quality is the recommended default, higher lighting qualities will reduce noise and increase the detail of lighting in the scene particularly around smaller object
LightingResolution	low,medium,mediumhigh,high,veryhigh,epic,insane,extreme	F6	lighting resolution quality - higher quality is more accurate lighting at the cost of performance - standard in-game epic (the same as epic in this setting) is typically x16 downsampling which is usually not necessary, medium (x32) is the minimum recommended
LightingUpdateSpeed	default,high,epic,insane		Allows making global illumination update faster
LumenDiffuseColorBoost	game/0-5		Increases diffuse lighting especially from local lights
LumenTraceDistance	game/20000-60000		Maximum distance of objects traced in the lumen scene
MotionBlur	game/0-1	F4	U+ improves motion blur quality in every game by default, recommend a small amount of blur ~0.2
RTShadows	game,off,on		allows turning RT shadows off, they are worse than regular shadows so it is recommended to disable
RayTracingCullingRadius	game/10000-60000		controls ray tracing culling radius (10000 = minimum, 60000 = maximum, game = use game default)
ReduceInputLatency	game,off,on		reduce input latency at potential FPS cost if not GPU bound
ReflectionBias	game/0-1	F9	Adds smoothing to reflections to make them more mirror like, a small amount is usually beneficial
ReflectionQuality	game,high,veryhigh,epic,insane	F10	Allows more surfaces to be included in reflections, in some games increasing this can cause some noise
Reflex	game,off,on		NVIDIA Reflex low latency
ScreenSpaceGI	game,off,on		Allows disabling the Lumen GI screen space component which can cause flickering on local light sources
ScreenSpaceReflections	game,off,on		Allows disabling the Lumen reflection screen space component, usually safest with hardware lumen to reduce screen space artifacts
Sharpness	game/0-1		Control UE tonemapper sharpness - recommend setting this to 0 and using RCAS through reshade
SkylightIntensity	game/0-3		Skylight is a flat amount of light added to the scene, it mostly effects outdoors unless a game uses it to light interiors
SkylightIntensityNight	game/0.1-0.5		Night skylight intensity when DynamicSkylight is enabled (0.10-0.50, default 0.15)
SkylightLeaking	game/0-1	CTRL+F2	How much of the skylight is allowed to leak into indoors or occluded areas
SunMoonIndirectIntensity	game/0-20		Indirect or bounce lighting intensity for the sun or moon
VSync	game,off,on		allow forcing vsync - helps latency in some games
ViewDistanceScale	game,one,two,three,four		increases view distance scale, affects foliage most noticeably
Vignette	game,off,on	F3	vignette effect control

Avowed

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U+ 2.0

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