STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order

2019-12-05: Updated to v1.1

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This will probably come as news to noboday by now, but Jedi: Fallen Order is an absolutely fantastic game! What's not to love about mashing up Dark Souls combat with Lightsabers along with Uncharted's adventurous platforming enhanced by using the Force? It's got a great cast that are amazingly well rendered and animated, diverse and beautiful worlds to explore, along with production values and dramatic set pieces on par with the spectacle of any recent Star Wars movie. A game of this caliber required a fix of equally high standards, and so a lot of thought, time, effort, and passion went into making this fix the best it possibly can be, and I believe I've succeeded on that front (both in terms of visual fidelity and amazing features). If you read my comments below and follow my recommended settings I can guarantee you will have a near-flawless gaming experience that will knock your socks off!



Version History

• v1.1 updated on 2019-12-05:
  -Now includes a full set of cached shaders for the entire game. Should eliminate any stutters that would occur from regex fixing shaders on the fly.
  -Adjusted some values in the autoconvergence.ini to make the autoconvergence shader more stable and less twitchy, and also have a wider convergence range.
• v1.2 tweak on 2020-07-31 (bo3b):
  -Small tweak to d3dx.ini to include masterotaku blue aura fix. 

3D Fix Summary

Game Engine: Unreal Engine 4

Fixed Issues:

• Lighting/Shadows
  -Volumetric lighting
  -CS tile lighting + clipping fix
  -Directional & point lighting (with specular fix)
  -God rays / light shafts
• Reflections
  -Screenspace reflections
  -Specular highlights
  
• Decals and other various effects & objects
  -Ground/wall textures
  -Fog/mist/smoke
  -Water, ripples (with screenspace reflections fix)
• Post-processing
  -Disabled character/object motion blur, as it caused NPC's and moveable objects to appear as if they were vibrating
  -Disabled part of a TAA shader that caused a ghosting effect

User Interface Features:

• Scene auto convergence
  -Adjusts convergence automatically based on what's on screen to maintain optimal 3D depth at all times!
  -You can adjust the pop out bias (how much pop out you like, aka 3D strength) by using your Nvidia convergence + / - keys. Set that to how you like and are comfortable, and the game should maintain that same level of "3D-ness" throughout
  -Sometimes "judder" may occur where the view toggles betwen 2 settings rapidly when an object close to the camera goes off camera. Moving the camera from this position will resolve it, if the built in anti-judder mechanism doesn't stop it after 1 or 2 cycles.
  -There is some performance cost to using this (generally 1-2 fps), which becomes most apparent when in GPU bottlenecked situations (ie. low frames become lower and look stuttery), but in average scenarios the performance cost is negligible and benefit outweighs the cost.
  -Can be toggled on or off using the tilde (~) key or Xbox right thumbstick + left thumbstick button combination.
• Cyclable HUD depth for in-game static HUD items via the F1 key, or disable with the \ key
• In-game waypoint markers and enemy healthbars set to correct depth via auto-depth script
  -Can occasionally be twitchy based on depth buffer obstruction
  -Can be toggled on/off using the F2 key

Remaining Issues and Other Notes:

• The blue or red highlight that should appear around objects that can be manipulated by the force is not visible in 3D
  -You may need to use the force in real life to know where to use the force in the game!
• Volumetric fog and lights, although fixed, do not like being in motion. When they are in motion (eg while moving the camera around) they appear slightly clipped/broken, but once they reach a static position they settle into being visually correct in about 1 second. Certain types of fog that remains in constant motion, like the mist in Bogano, will generally appear like their left and right edges are broken from a distance.
• Specular reflections and screenspace reflections, by default, are fixed to being at their correct depth (they appear like they are inside of the surface they are reflecting off), but with how screenspace type effects work, they sometimes look broken when the reflective surface is not pointing towards the camera or at an odd angle, and also have a type of clipping near the screen edges. I have provided options for both specular and SSR's to instead have them appear at the surface depth of whatever object/substance they are reflecting off via their own toggle keys. This is not how things are in real life, but the possible benefit of this is that in times when specular or SSR look kinda broken, this often looks better, so it might be preferable for someone who is more sensitive to broken 3D effects.
• Some distant lighting infrequently still will have some blocky clipping on their edges despite having clipping fixes in place for most lighting types.
• Speaking of which, to fix clipping on the edge of PS based point lights requires the use of a feature to disable scissor clipping, which does come at a 1-2 fps performance cost, so I've set a toggle key to enable/disable scissor clipping for these shaders. If you want an extra couple fps, but don't mind seeing one or two broken lights in the whole game you can reenable it via the F5 key and get that performance back.

Instructions

1. Download fix: STAR WARS Jedi Fallen Order 3D Fix v1.2

2. Extract fix contents to: ..\Jedi Fallen Order\SwGame\Binaries\Win64

3. Required or recommended settings :

• Under Visuals is recommended to turn off motion blur, film grain, and chromatic aberration
• Under Video, the following are required:
  -Windowed Mode - Fullscreen
  -Dynamic Resolution Scaling - Off
  -Anti-Aliasing: Medium or Off (off is strongly recommended. See link below for how to turn off completely)
• Under Video, the following are recommended:
  -Post Processing: Low (to entirely eliminate DOF)
  -All other settings on Epic or High if you have the performance to spare
• Read this to learn how to go below Medium settings (eg. AA  = off, Post Processing = Low)

4. The following keybindings have been set up:

    Key                          Effect        
     ~                     Enables/disables autoconvergence
    F1                    Cycles through HUD depth settings
    F2                    Toggles between autodepth or static depth for waypoints and enemy health bars
    F3                    Toggles between having specular at realistic depth or surface depth (default realistic)
    F4                    Toggles between having SSR's at realistic depth or surface depth (default realistic)
    F5                    Enables or disables scissor clipping on lighting (see note above).
     \                      Disables the in-game HUD

Tools used and special credits

• 3DMigoto v1.3.16 by 3DMigoto development team
• Flugan's assembler by Flugan
• Autoconvergence and autodepth custom shaders by DarkStarSword
• Another shout out to DarkStarSword for continually sharing his time and knowledge with myself and other members of the community. 
• Those that test and offer their feedback and opinions on my WIPs
• Every member of this community that contributes their time and effort into making this a better place

Donations

Like my work and wish to show appreciation and provide funding towards future game fixes? Donations can be sent by visiting: www.paypal.me/DShanz or by sending to rshannonca@gmail.com