Chromium
40-50% more FPS, same look: holds Lumen lighting and reflections at High instead of Epic, and makes the game's 'unlimited' frame rate truly unlimited (it stops at 62). Only your game changes. F7 toggles it.
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| Dependency string | Reagent-Chromium-1.0.1 |
| Dependants | 0 other packages depend on this package |
This mod requires the following mods to function
Thunderstore-MecchaChameleon_UE4SS
MECCHA CHAMELEON UE4SS community overlay for unreal-shimloader.
Preferred version: 1.0.0README
Chromium
40-50% more FPS in MECCHA CHAMELEON, with the same look.
Almost all of the game's graphics cost comes from two settings: Lumen's global illumination and reflections on Epic. Chromium holds those two at High. The bounce light and reflections are worked out at a lower resolution and then smoothed, so side by side the picture looks the same.
| Measured on an RTX 5060, Epic settings, in the lobby | 2560x1440 | 1920x1080 |
|---|---|---|
| The game as it ships | 81 FPS | 121 FPS |
| With Chromium | 120 FPS | 173 FPS |
| 1% lows | 77 -> 111 FPS | 111 -> 143 FPS |
Every other setting was tested too: hardware ray tracing, volumetric fog, motion blur, shadows and post-processing each made under 3% difference. Chromium leaves them alone, so nothing else looks different.
Also: "unlimited" really is unlimited
With the game's frame-rate limit set to unlimited, the engine falls back to its smoothed frame rate, which stops at 62 FPS. With Chromium on, unlimited means unlimited (handy on a 144/165 Hz screen). Any limit you pick in the game's options is kept as it is.
Good to know
- Only your game changes. Nothing is sent to anyone, so it works on any server, hosting or not, and other players don't need it.
- Your saved settings are never touched. Chromium changes the settings while the game runs and never writes them to disk.
- Settings already at High or lower are kept. If you change graphics in the game's options while Chromium is on, that becomes your new choice; Chromium only steps Epic down to High.
- F7 switches Chromium off and on in the game, so you can compare. A small card at the top right says what it's doing. It starts on each time the game launches.
Install
With a mod manager (Thunderstore Mod Manager / r2modman): install Chromium. Its dependency, the MECCHA CHAMELEON UE4SS package, comes with it.
By hand: install UE4SS's experimental build for Unreal 5.6. Then copy the mod folder from this
package into UE4SS's Mods folder and rename it Chromium, so you end up with
Mods/Chromium/enabled.txt and Mods/Chromium/Scripts/main.lua.
To uninstall, remove the mod. Your settings were never saved, so the next launch is exactly as before.
Made by
Reagent Launcher. Chromium also ships with Reagent Launcher, where it's an Off/On switch in the Performance section.
