Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice

Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice

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Framerate Fix (Reduce Stutter)
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Improve the game's performance with additional graphics settings.
   
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The Stuttering Issue
This game has stuttering in some areas depending on where the player is looking. It didn't seem like a game developed for standalone headsets should have that sort of issue when running on a desktop PC so I did some digging.

Some of the graphics settings can be accessed from the game's menu but it's an Unreal Engine game so we can also set additional options by editing the GameUserSettings.ini file. We don't really need to know what the specific problem is, we just want to set everything low and enjoy the higher framerate.
Finding the Config File
First you need to go to the game's config folder on your computer:

C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Lollipop\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor

Note that you need to replace 'user_name' with whatever your user name is and the AppData folder is hidden. Make a back-up copy of the GameUserSettings.ini file from the WindowsNoEditor folder and put it where you can find it later if needed.
Editing the File
Edit the original GameUserSettings.ini file in its original folder and make it look like this:

[ScalabilityGroups]
sg.ShadowQuality=0
sg.ResolutionQuality=100.000000
sg.ViewDistanceQuality=0
sg.PostProcessQuality=0
sg.EffectsQuality=0
sg.FoliageQuality=0
sg.ShadingQuality=0

[ShaderPipelineCache.CacheFile]
LastOpened=Lollipop

Some of those settings might not matter for this game and a few of them can be controlled from the game's menu but setting everything to 0 except ResolutionQuality reduced the stuttering for me and the game still looked good. Remember to save the file before running the game.
Additional Notes
You can set sg.ViewDistanceQuality to 1 if the character models look too low-res for you. That's usually only noticeable during conversations though.

You can also add sg.AntiAliasingQuality=0 or change that in-game which will disable anti-aliasing. You might not need to go that far so see how well the game performs before turning it off.

That's it. I hope this guide was helpful for you.