The Ball

The Ball

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How to play at 4K & 144hz (or higher)
By Ethan
This is an Unreal Engine game, so It's super easy to chose a higher resolution, and uncap the frame rate. This game is cool though, it allows you to add your custom resolutions to the settings menu, so you can chose it in-game!
Because of this there are TWO ways to change your resolution, I'll explain both quickly.
   
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Changing the Frame Rate:
Go to your "The Ball" config folder, which is located in your "My Games" folder in your Documents. Should be here - "Documents\My Games\The Ball\UDKGame\Config"

Open up "UDKEngine.ini" in notepad (or whatever) and click 'edit', then 'find' and search for "MaxSmoothedFrameRate", or scroll down until you find it. You should find this line of code -

MaxSmoothedFrameRate=62

I'm pretty sure it was set to 62. Just change 62 to 120, 144, 240, or whatever your monitor's refresh rate is.
for me it's this -

MaxSmoothedFrameRate=144

Unless you want you want to change the resolution too (instructions below), just save the file, and close it, job done.
Changing the Resolution: The COOL Way
Go to your "The Ball" config folder, which is located in your "My Games" folder in your Documents. Should be here - "Documents\My Games\The Ball\UDKGame\Config"

Open up "UDKGame.ini" in notepad (or whatever) and click 'edit', then 'find' and search for "1920x1200" or scroll down until you find this line of code -

[1920x1200 UTUIDataProvider_Resolutions]
FriendlyName=1920x1200

You should see several lines of code just like this, with different resolutions. This is how we add our custom resolutions.
If you use a standard 16:9, 2K, or 4K resolution, then add these two lines of code below -

[2560x1440 UTUIDataProvider_Resolutions]
FriendlyName=2560x1440

[3840x2160 UTUIDataProvider_Resolutions]
FriendlyName=3840x2160

Save the file, job done. Boot up the game, and change to your desired resolution. If you use a different resolution, then just enter that into this line of code instead. There is a simpler, more primitive way of doing this below if you'd prefer that.
Changing the Resolution: The Basic Way
Go to your "The Ball" config folder, which is located in your "My Games" folder in your Documents. Should be here - "Documents\My Games\The Ball\UDKGame\Config"

Open up "UDKEngine.ini" in notepad (or whatever) and click 'edit', then 'find' and search for "ResX", or scroll down until you find it. You should find two lines of code like this -

ResX=1920
ResY=1080

Simply change these two lines of text to your chosen resolution, for example -

ResX=2560
ResY=1440

Save the file, and job done.

Hopefully this helped!
5 Comments
StixsmasterHD4k 23 Feb, 2024 @ 1:24pm 
meh just inject a wrapper...itll save you all this headache
vivichrist 13 Sep, 2021 @ 5:58am 
My problem is with wine displaying the game in 800x600 so that I can only see a 1/4 of the screen.
RRemmy79 6 Jun, 2021 @ 1:46pm 
you didn't mention the Lazy Man's Way: launch game, hit Tab or ` and then put in "setres 3840x2160 f"
[OP]Puppetmaster 31 Jul, 2020 @ 2:48pm 
Worked for me :)
fer0x 29 Jul, 2020 @ 2:06pm 
Thx, u rule :)