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Some things you should know about the FOV

Apparently when playing single player, once you change the FOV it'll stay at that setting no matter what you do (like sprinting). However, when you are in a multiplayer game, sprinting will reset your FOV to their default (which is apparently very, very low). Someone earlier in the thread suggested adding the FOV command to your sprint bind, which mostly works... but since sprinting is not really a toggle or press/release thing... it's a turn on while moving forward by tapping it thing... you end up sprinting, then stopping, then looking at an awful FOV. The solution?

Put the FOV command you want on not only your sprint key, but also all your movement keys. It'll look something like this in your ...\My Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config\WillowInput.ini file under the heading [WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput]



Bindings=(Name="E",Command="MoveForward | Axis aGas Speed=+1.0 | FOV 106",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
Bindings=(Name="D",Command="MoveBackward | Axis aBrake Speed=+1.0 | FOV 106",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
Bindings=(Name="S",Command="StrafeLeft | FOV 106",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
Bindings=(Name="F",Command="StrafeRight | FOV 106",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
Bindings=(Name="SpaceBar",Command="advancedbutton bAdvancedButtonAux6 | FOV 106",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)


Note that I play with ESDF for movement keys, and Spacebar as Sprint. Also note that I like an FOV of 106 for my 1920x1200 resolution. Alter to taste.

Go to my documents\games\borderlands\willowgame

open willowinput.ini
add
Bindings=(Name="F10",Command="FOV 90",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
Bindings=(Name="F11",Command="FOV 110",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)

FOV Key Causing All Keys to Do Nothing Fix
This works for steam players for sure, and after you do this your custom configs will work like the retail guys, nothing fancy you need to do because you are on steam.

Goto My Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config\
1. (Optional?) Delete WillowInput.ini and then start and exit Borderlands to set everything to default.
2. Add a custom keybinding to WillowInput.ini's [WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput], its going to blank all your other inputs but THATS OKAY!
3. Start Borderlands and go to the Options menu on the title screen, Mouse/Keyboard, then Keybindings. You will notice they are all blank, press Reset To Defaults.
4. Exit Borderlands, and now open up your WillowInput.ini, you will notice the game has now stashed all of the default keybindings under [WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput] that weren't there before.
5. Add your custom FOV or whatever keybindings and you're good to go! No more adding something and having all of your keys not work.

To disable the startup movies:
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Within WillowEngine.ini:

Find:
[FullScreenMovie]
StartupMovies=2K_logo
StartupMovies=Gearbox_logo
StartupMovies=NVidia
StartupMovies=Loading
SkippableMovies=2K_logo
SkippableMovies=Gearbox_logo
SkippableMovies=Attract
SkippableMovies=NVidia

and comment out lines like so:

[FullScreenMovie]
;StartupMovies=2K_logo
;StartupMovies=Gearbox_logo
;StartupMovies=NVidia
;StartupMovies=Loading
;SkippableMovies=2K_logo
;SkippableMovies=Gearbox_logo
;SkippableMovies=Attract
;SkippableMovies=NVidia

Editing My Documents > MyGames> Borderlands > WillowGame > WillowEngine.ini

And changed the section FullScreenMovie to:

[FullScreenMovie]
SkippableMovies=2K_logo
SkippableMovies=Gearbox_logo
SkippableMovies=Attract
SkippableMovies=NVidia

To disable/adjust weapon view bob:
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Within WillowGame.ini:
Search for "bWeaponBob" and you should come across the following lines:

bWeaponBob=TRUE
Bob=0.005

Within WillowEngine.ini:
Search for "UseVsync" and you should come across the following line:

UseVsync=False

Change to TRUE.

Within WillowEngine.ini:
Search for "bHasVoiceEnabled" and you should come across the following line:

bHasVoiceEnabled=True

Change to FALSE.

Within WillowInput.ini:
Search for "bEnableMouseSmoothing" and you should come across the following line:

bEnableMouseSmoothing=True

Change to FALSE. Should improve the feel of the mouse when looking around and navigating the UI.

I just hosted 5 hours of 4 player co-op on my own PC and to get it to work, all I needed to do was port forward the following (2Wire DSL Modem/Router):
7777 (TCP/UDP)
28900 (TCP)
27900 (UDP)
28910 (TCP)



However, a few minutes ago we decided to use my brothers PC to host instead, which is on a totally separate ISP but sits 6 feet away from me (yes, we have 2 separate ISP's in our home).

We could NOT connect to my brothers system, despite Ports being forwarded properly (Cable Modem to Linksys Router).

The fix was this:
-Go into Windows 7 Firewall (Control Panel -> System and Security -> Allow a program through Windows Firewall
-Click the Change Settings button at the top right.
-Make sure Borderlands has access to the PUBLIC.



This fixed the problem with using my brothers PC as a Server.

3783 (Voice Chat Port)
27900 (Master Server UDP Heartbeat)
28900 (Master Server List Request)
29900 (GP Connection Manager)
29901 (GP Search Manager)
13139 (Custom UDP Pings)
6515 (Dplay UDP)
6500 (Query Port)

Within WillowInput.ini

Search for all instances of the following (there should only be two instances):

InputKeyName="MouseScrollUp",ModifierKeyFlags=42
InputKeyName="MouseScrollDown",ModifierKeyFlags=42

remove the ",ModifierKeyFlags=42" so they look like:

InputKeyName="MouseScrollUp"
InputKeyName="MouseScrollDown"

To enable scroll wheel in text boxes:
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Within WillowInput.ini

Search for all instances of the following (there should only be two instances):

InputKeyName="MouseScrollUp",ModifierKeyFlags=42
InputKeyName="MouseScrollDown",ModifierKeyFlags=42

remove the ",ModifierKeyFlags=42" so they look like:

InputKeyName="MouseScrollUp"
InputKeyName="MouseScrollDown"

Solution someone found from gbxforums

 :heart:

This might be a cheat so I'll spoiler it, but I havn't tried it.  

I just found it on another forum:

[WillowGame.WillowCoopGameInfo]
bIgnoreFriendlyFire=true

I found hardcore mode!

I wonder how this effects rolands healing bullet talent, they damage and heal so it balances out?  :grin:

Third Person Camera (courtesy of [BoX]SteroidFreud):
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Within WillowInput.ini:

Search for [WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput]. Below the chunk of bindings, add the following:

Bindings=(Name="F3",Command="Camera ThirdPerson",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)
Bindings=(Name="F4",Command="Camera FirstPerson",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)

F3 goes into third person, F4 switches back to first person. As such, you can swap out the keys (F3 and F4) to the keys of your liking.

To make crouch momentary (instead of toggle, courtesy of siberx):
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Within WillowInput.ini:

Search for the following line under [WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput]:

advancedbutton bAdvancedButtonAux1 | SwitchSeats
and change to

Duck | SwitchSeats
You can remove the SwitchSeats variable if you do not wish to have the key switch seats as well.

If this doesn't work, make sure this line exists under [WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput], otherwise add it:

Bindings=(Name="Duck",Command="Button bDuck | Axis aUp Speed=-1.0 AbsoluteAxis=100",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=Fa lse,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCt rl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)

MaxPlayers=4

Anyone up for trying FF games?

Here you go:

If you're running Borderlands on a Windows 7 platform, chances are you aren't actually running the game in DirectX 10. Why? Who knows. However, there is a very easy fix that will switch to the DirectX 10 render path and a few tweaks that will give you more visual eye candy to gawk at.

    1. Go to the directory --> C:\Users\[Your user Name]\Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config
    a. Find the file WillowEngine.ini (make a copy and rename it as a backup)

    2. Find the section [SystemSettings]
    Change the following settings to True, you will see if you are currently in DX9 as well.

    - AllowD3D10=True (this is the key one to enable the DX10 render engine)
    Also change the following

    - MotionBlur=True

    - DepthOfField=True

    - Bloom=True

    - UseHighQualityBloom=True

    - FogVolumes=True

I've been running in dx10 for a while, the smoke/fog effects are damn nice, but I turned off depth of field, seems to blur stuff at too close a range.

The bit where it forgets that I set my resolution to 1680x1050 is bothersome.  I'm going to have to save an original and a modified version of the ini files, for great justice.

I noticed when I was tweaking shadows versus no shadows, ambient occlusion versus none, etc, that even when Fraps showed 50 fps, the game still felt pretty unresponsive.

Then I came across two ini settings that made a pretty big difference, and now I'm sharing.

1) There's a bool setting in WillowEngine.ini: "OneFrameThreadLag=true"
Change it to false if you don't want one frame of lag between your mouse motion and rendering. This made heaps of difference for me and finally made 50fps feel like 50fps. (Edit: oh and I also have mouse smoothing turned off, I've never used it in games and it just sounds like more "add lag please").


2) There are settings for "framerate smoothing" also in WillowEngine.ini. It's probably something like:

bSmoothFrameRate=TRUE
MinSmoothedFrameRate=22
MaxSmoothedFrameRate=62

I suggest simply changing it to bSmoothFrameRate=FALSE, or at least setting MaxSmoothedFrameRate really high.

As far as I can tell, the default settings try to do a few things:

a) enforce a max framerate. Even if the game can run at 70 fps, you'll only get 62.
b) tries to enforce a min framerate, presumably by dropping effects or something.
c) tries to "smooth" framerate changes. Now this one is perplexing, but here is what I saw: When using Fraps to look at fps, with smoothing on, toggling shadows (which massively kills my framerate) would drop me to 30 fps, then turning it off would slowly ramp back up to my max for the scene, say 60fps. Now, if you turn off smoothing, it will immediately go to 60 if possible. This also means that if you're in a huge battle with a slow framerate, and look another direction where you'd potentially get a good framerate, then look back, it will actually give you a crap framerate the entire time in an attempt to "smooth" the transition.

Hope this helps

I really wish someone had the time to write a app to adjust this stuff, perhaps time to attempt to learn c#?

Might have to do with V-Sync. I doubt that filtering would affect mouse movement.

I think the more severe issue for me may actually just be the unreal engine and the 90 degree FOV -- I haven't been this motion-sick since I played UT years ago.  I love the game but it makes me ill.  No fun.