Ultra Plus

Making hardware ray tracing an available option enhances the overall gaming experience by reducing excessive noise in the base game, improving game feel and input lag, reducing stuttering, and improving performance.

Ultra Plus for The Outer Worlds 2

🎮 **The ultimate graphics enhancement module that comprehensively enhances the gaming experience of "The Outer Worlds 2"**

🌟 About Ultra+

Ultra+ is a comprehensive family of graphics enhancement mods designed for **all PC configurations**, fixing bugs and performance issues while delivering the best possible visuals.

✨ **Design Goal**: Comprehensively fix engine problems from **performance** to **image quality**, so that all players can experience the game according to the developer's intention, and everyone from entry-level PCs to high-end systems can benefit.

🚀 Core functions

• **Fix Hardware Lumen**: disable RT shadows, reduce noise and improve performance
• **Performance Optimization**: Significantly improve FPS, reduce input latency, and reduce lag across the board
• **Game settings adjustment**: Optimize in-game settings to make high global illumination a more balanced visual/performance choice (high GI is recommended)
• **Other improvements**: Fix HDR UI ghosting issue under DLSS frame generation, disable lens flare

📥 Installation Guide

Manual installation

• Extract all files in the main archive to the folder containing the `Arkansas` directory (the Steam version is the game root directory)

Ultra+ Mod Manager

• Download and install Ultra+ Mod Manager (UMM)
• Run the application, select **TheOuterWorlds2**, and click Initialize
• The path should be automatically detected, if not, search the game installation directory and select `TheOuterWorlds2-Win64-Shipping.exe`

⚙️ Configuration suggestions

Optional custom Engine.ini configuration recommendations:

```ini

[SystemSettings]

r.Lumen.HardwareRayTracing.LightingMode=1; Improve HW lumen quality

r.RayTracing.Nanite.Mode=1; has a more accurate Nanite mesh in RT

r.RayTracing.Culling.Radius=30000; Increase RT radius

r.HDR.Display.MinLuminanceLog10=-7; It is recommended that the brightness in the game be set to 15

```

🎯 Performance and image quality optimization

DLSS4 users

• Use **DLSS4 PresetK** for the best balance of performance and image quality
• **DLSS Balanced** or **DLSS Performance** modes provide excellent results at 4K resolution

Sharpening suggestions

• Install **Lilium's HDR Shaders** to enable high quality **RCAS sharpening**
• RCAS significantly improves image quality and is a **highly recommended alternative to in-game sharpening**

🔧 Troubleshooting

Visual glitches or crashes

If you experience visual artifacts, rendering issues, or crashes, try clearing the shader cache:

**NVIDIA USERS**:

• Press `Win + R`, enter `%LOCALAPPDATA%\NVIDIA\DXCache` and press Enter
• Delete all files in this folder

**AMD users**:

• Using AMD Adrenalin Software > Graphics > Advanced > Reset Shader Cache

💬 Support and updates

• Get more frequent updates via UMM and Discord
• Main support provided in Discord

🌈 Ultra+ Module Family

Ultra+ provides optimized modules for many popular games, including:

• **Cyberpunk 2077** - Ultra+ Mod
• **Hogwarts Legacy** - Ultra+ and Ultra Fog Mods
• **CONTROLS** - Full HUD toggle
• **Star Wars: Jedi Survivor** - Ultra+ Mod

Join The Ultra Place Discord community for the latest releases and fastest support!

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🎊 **Experience the smoother and more beautiful adventure of "The Outer Worlds 2" now! **