First thing I would recommend to do is install Unofficial Patch 1.3 which fixes many bugs that developers left in the game and never were able to fixed them.

Download it from here[www.worldofrisen.de]

Installation is quite simple, just copy content of the archive into your game folder.
BUT If your game localization is not German/English/French/Italian/Spanish
DO NOT COPY data\compiled\strings.p00 file.

It's highly recommended to start a new game because update won't affect quests already in progress.

Remove intro videos from playlist

• Go to the installation folder.
  
• Go into data\extern\videos.
  
• Open logo.ini and delete all of its contents.
  
• Save the file.

Since Risen runs VERY WELL on most of the new computers and some of us would like to see some visual improvements rather than performance. Apply these changes if you really want to make Risen look good.

1.Make backup of your configDefault.xml (in game folder .../Risen/data/ini/).
2.Modify following lines:

Under <vegetation> and <high> element in xml.
to

Under <Shadows> and <high> element in xml.
to

Under <Window> and <Render> element in xml.
to

To make these changes apply, you need to delete your configUser.xml file and reconfigure your settings.

configUser.xml location:
Win7/Vista/W10: C:/Users/your_name/AppData/Local/Risen
WinXP: C:\Documents and Settings\your_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Risen

There is no native Anti-Aliasing support in Risen but as always glorious PC master race can help itself! There are three possible options. Sorry for very brief explanations for Radeon cards but I don't own one so I can't be more specific.


Simply force FXAA trough your graphic card drivers
Radeon owners will need download Radeon Pro Utility [www.radeonpro.info]
Nvidia owners can set it in Nvidia Control Panel[www.geforce.com]


You have to download NVIDIA Inspector [www.guru3d.com]
Learn how to use it [wiki.step-project.com]

Open NV Inspector, open driver profile setting and find Risen
Enter special behavior flag number to antialiasing compatibility field -> 0x000002C1 and set Antialiasing Behavior Flags to none

Now just experiment which setting your rig can handle

My setting for example:

(recommended)

What is downsampling

Downsampling, also called OGSSAA : Ordered Grid SuperSampling AntiAliasing, is in this case the concept of rendering the game at a much higher, custom made, resolution than your monitor is capable of displaying and subsequently having the GPU rescale the image ( as in downsample ) to that of your monitor's native resolution to which the end result is a "cleaner", sharper and less aliased image.

Radeon owners follow this guide [www.neogaf.com]

Nvidia owners got it very easy thanks to Nvidia DSR setting integrated in drivers.
Just use this[nvidia.custhelp.com] guide and there is no need for using GeForce Experinece just enable DSR in Control Panel and then select desired resolution in game options.

The Risen Mod Starter is a mod manager which is hooked into an online mod database. It'll automatically display the mods available and let you pick and choose which ones to download and install. It doesn't have a big list of mods, but the important ones are there. Awesome!

Risen Mod Starter can be found here[www.worldofrisen.de]

I recommend to use at least Risen LowPolyTexturmod V1.0 and Ambient Sound Fix mods.


If you try to download multiple mods your game can crash due to "out of memory" error.
Only solution is 4GB Patch[www.ntcore.com] which will allocate more RAM to Risen executable BUT this will overwrite original exe and Steam's DRM will not let you play. You can make it work by using not official exe...

In the ConfigUser.xml you can also change locked key commands. An example:
Key_F8=”QuickSave_0”
Key_F9=”QuickLoad_0”
You only have to replace the bolt letters with another key that isn't in use.