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How to make the game playable on potato PCs

By IvanLeTerrible

This guide will help you make the game run in your outdated PC (guide still under construction)

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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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28 Feb, 2022 @ 1:35pm

28 Feb, 2022 @ 4:38pm

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Guide Index

Overview

1- How to skip the Intro

2- How to Remove Motion Blur

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1- How to skip the Intro

Intro takes hours and hours to load and it's annoying. Here's how to skip it.

Go to your Metro Exodus folder (\steamapps\common\Metro Exodus)

- You'll find 3 WEBM files

Credits, Intro and Legal

Just rename then to whatever you want (I use old. legal,old.credits,.old.intro)

That'll skip all the intro cutscenes from the game.

(credits to user u/dmak42 on reddit)

2- How to Remove Motion Blur

My trash PC could run the previous Metro games just fine and the stupid motion blur effect is the reason why Metro Exodus can't run properly on my PC. Here's how to turn it off:

If you want to turn motion blur off (as well as change other unavailable video settings), you have to access the user files here: C:\Users<USER>\Saved Games\metro exodus<STEAMID>\user.cfg

And set:

r_blur_level 0

r_game_mblur_scale 0.00

(credits to user VeteranAlpha on reddit)

9 Comments

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KorruptkSwades 21 Nov, 2024 @ 8:48pm

Good stuff. I do not need to use: I7 7700k OC 4.5ghz, 16gb OC 3ghz ddr4, NVME 2Wr/3Re, GTX 1070ti OC Edition not OC myself. Playing 2K Ultra but no blur medium on a few high impacts.. No RTX stuff.
I must say, to previous commentator, yes motion blur does affect game performance since the GPU and also the CPU both must calculate and render the effects which are medium in performance impact. every bit of performance you can gain is great in the end. Intro videos off is good for people with low end CPUs since it is put on to hide the game itself loading which takes up quite a bit of CPU power I have noticed. Good guide. PS: may you mention your fig please so people can relate better ? CPU GPU RAM HDD/SSD/NVM and Windows7/8/10/..11 ?... Thanks man !

压不住ak 18 Oct, 2024 @ 4:23am

i can get 60 fps on my mac with max graphics, the only downside is my computer being on fire

RTK 15 Sep, 2024 @ 7:07am

nice man can you do a guide on just how to run it on PC. i have a pretty decent PC and of the 3 times I've booted it up its crashed twice. not only that but the sheer amount of ungodly lag spikes i get is appalling

𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔰 𝔄𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰 11 May, 2022 @ 4:11pm

This has nothing to do with performance.Motion blue is just a cinematic effects that make sstuff look smoother,intro videos have nothing to do with performance either

IvanLeTerrible [author] 13 Mar, 2022 @ 5:57pm

Yasnugget 13 Mar, 2022 @ 5:54pm

just a note for myself:
r_blur_level 1
r_game_mblur_scale 0.25
(those are the defaults)

thanks for the guide!! :)

IvanLeTerrible [author] 10 Mar, 2022 @ 8:01am

Youre welcome

Dwight Schrute 10 Mar, 2022 @ 7:43am

Thanks for helping me remove motion blur

Laykan 1 Mar, 2022 @ 6:04am

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