lookup firefall.ini in the following directory on your harddrive

When the game is installed on steam:
E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Firefall

In Firefall's own installer dir:
e:\program files (x86)\red 5 studios\firefall

Add the following line below the existing content:

When you're in a ituation where you think the game is stuttering/lagging/behaving strangely in general, there's a way to force a log to be sent to the developer by doing the following

• While playing, press ctrl+shift+alt+del
  
• The game will "crash" to desktop
  
• As you see the dialog with Oilspil tinkering, you can fill in the reason why you want to send a crash report and press "submit.

There might be issues regarding friends, chat, squadding up and other social related things in the game and to debug these you have to open the console (ALT F1) and type


NOTE: do it before you think you're going to encounter the issue you have:

After the issue happened, close the game.

• Press WINDOWS KEY + R to bring up the "run" command
  
• Type: %localappdata% (you will be brought to your local apps settings folder
  
• In the folder, choose Firefall and search for the last_run.log or console history log file
  
• you have to zip it up (ZIP format) to be able to send it on the firefall forums (on http://www.firefallthegame.com)

After a major patch you might see the game glitching out in the UI department. It's possible that you're not seeing new things you are supposed to see or some UI elements don't function properly.

Cleaning the game's streaming and awesomium cache might cure this problem in many cases.

People using the stand alone version of the game (nonsteam) can open the launcher and see a cog on the right upper side of the program with functionality to clearh both game and web cache.

But steam users can do exactly the same! It's just a matter of finding the launcher within the steam installation and clean both caches.

Open your firefall steam folder:
c:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Firefall\system\bin

run launcher.exe

NOTE: Do not patch the game via this launcher, as Steam takes care of that

Open the cogwheel dropdown menu and select each clean cache feature once: (don't error check, as this can also be done with steam in this case and would function the same as PATCH, which we don't want in this case)

Select: Clean web cache and Clean streaming cache.

Both your game caches should now been cleaned up and you can go and verify if you still ahve "issues".

We all know the screenshot functionality of Steam (F12). But in Firefall you can also natively take screenshots by pressing Printscreen.

If you don't want the UI to be present in these screenshots you can press SHIFT PRINTSCREEN.

These screenshots will be in the following folder:
C:\Users\yourusername\Pictures\Firefall

Open the console with ALT+F1 and type:

This will give you information of which region you are located.

Type the command


in the chat to make your location publicly known to the zone, all people in the same zone will see it.

There is a console command that you can use to have more technical info about the location called


This command will not only copy the name of the zone but also the exact position to the windows clipboard. This allows you to quickly paste it in a message you are writing so you don't have to provide screenshot of your map view.

press ALT F1 to open the console

write:


This variable will be remembered and the next time you take screenshots with printscreen it will be in jpg

If you have a cpu/gpu which is not high class or "current gen" There are some ways that you can optimize the game to use less CPU power. This will benefit these systems which can't utilize much gpu power.

In the advanced video settings try a lower setting for:

- Vegetation
- Animation
- Shadow
- Model quality.

Try to reduce thos as much as you can accept quality / performance wise.

There are also some console commands you can use like:


It renders virtual texturing feedback less frequently. Default is some dynamic setting, but it can go down to 6. The more, the better for performance, but textures might be blurry for a split second before they get sharp. It's something you can play with.


These cvars will remove dead bodies more quickly.

This game is loading high detail textures from the online servers and it can sometimes happen that you missed some high detail textures, and the location or geometry will remain forever blurred as no high quality texture is loaded.

It can sometimes help to open the console with alt + F1 and write clearvtcache . This will clear the cache and reload all proper textures.

It can help even when you tried everything else (clear the web/graphics cache from the launcher.