Here’s how to fix the blur, textures, more in Fable Anniversary

Fable Anniversary was a highly anticipated HD update – the release never felt near enough, but when it finally launched it was not nearly as pretty as people had anticipated.

If you look at the user reviews on the Steam Store page you'll be seeing a lot of red thumbs pointing down and an all around dislike for the 'HD' graphics. While there are various other complaints, we found a fix (shout out to Steam user Bazgrim for creating it) for at least one of the issues people are having – the graphics.

Yes, there is in fact a way to change the depth of field, blur and textures. The fix takes you from the left image, to the right (click to enlarge).

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Here's how to get it done:

To make your game look like the game on the right simply do the following…

Go to C:Users<USERNAME>Documentsmy gamesUnrealEngine3WellingtonGameConfig

Open WellingtonSystemSettings.ini in a text-based editor.
First thing we'll do is get rid of that nasty depth of field.
Find DepthOfField=True and change it to DepthOfField=False

Awesome! You're on your way. Next, we'll up the Anisotropy. This will help some of our textures look a bit sharper from various angles.
Find MaxAnisotropy=8.000000 and change it to MaxAnisotropy=16.000000

Next we'll increase multisampling (anti-aliasing) for sharper textures.
Find MaxMultiSamples=1 and change it to MaxMultiSamples=4

Last, but not least, we'll change the shadow resolution. So we get denser, sharper shadows.
Find MaxShadowResolution and change it to MaxShadowResolution=2048

Find MaxWholeSceneDominantShadowResolution=1344 and change it to MaxWholeSceneDominantShadowResolution=2048

Find MinPreShadowResolution=8 change it to MinPreShadowResolution=16

Increase draw distance a little
Change MaxDrawDistanceScale to 3.000000

There's a lot more information and troubleshooting on the Fable Anniversary Steam Community page.

Did you buy Fable Anniversary? If so, what did you think of the port? Let me know!

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