Dead Island
Dead Island uses Techland's Chrome Engine with DX10 support. Game seriously lacks advanced graphics options and even after the patches still has lots of bugs. But due to aspiring players and modders there are a lot of user-created fixes available.
Game Settings and Saves Location
Main file with a lot of things available to change
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dead island\DI\Data0.pak
- To open .pak files you can use any archive program like WinRAR or 7-Zip
In that archive go to Data/Skills/ and extract default_levels.xml
Here's how to apply changes:
- Extract file you want to change (In this case default_levels.xml)
- Locate your Dead Island folder in your user's documents folder
- Create "Data" folder and "Skills" subfolder
- Place the default_levels.xml in the skills sub folder. Open the file, edit away.
Issues and Fixes
If you don't want to manually apply some of these tweaks check out tools section at end of the page.
Long Load Times
Some users are experiencing ridiculously long load times when doing things like loading the menu, game, etc. It can literally take over 5-10 minutes for some people. Oddly enough, this may relate to error logging that is done by the game.
- Go to My documents\deadisland\out\logs
- Right click the crash.log -> Properties — and mark the file as “Read Only”
This will prevent the game from writing data to the log because it is no longer writable (hence Read Only). Oddly enough, this may fix your long loading times.
Graphic Tweaks
If you don't want to manually apply these tweaks check out tools section at end of the page.
Changing FOV
In default_levels.xml find CVAR
CameraDefaultFOV
and change it accordingly.
System Requirements
Useful Links and Tools
- Dead Island Helper - The easiest way to apply fixes and tweaks to Dead Island
- Manually tweak and fix Dead Island - YouTube video showing how to apply tweaks