Persisting viewport scalability settings

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to figure out how to persist the scalability settings (set via the little viewport “Settings” dropdown in the editor) between Unreal Engine sessions.

Right now, whenever I set the scalability quality to Low from the viewport menu, it works — but as soon as I restart the editor or reopen the project, the settings reset back to Epic or whatever default Unreal decides.

What I want:

  • When I change scalability settings via the viewport dropdown, I want those to stay the same after restarting the editor.
  • Preferably without having to run console commands or modify C++.
  • Just persist the setting selected in the viewport quality menu (like “Low”, “Medium”, etc.).

What I tried:

  • Changing settings in DefaultEngine.ini, Scalability.ini, etc.
  • Saving/closing engine properly
  • Looking into Saved/Config/Windows/Scalability.ini

Nothing has made the viewport setting persist between sessions.

Has anyone figured out how to make this stick permanently or have a workaround?

Thanks in advance!

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I’d love to know as well, haven’t found any way to save it.

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You could use my settings framework. It doesn’t listen to that little viewport menu (which is the limited engine’s GameUserSettings system).

My system makes all those original + custom settings configurable from the in-game menu / INI / code. Settings are then stored to INI per player profile, and automatically loaded in the next time you boot the game.

Here’s the product:

GitHub - Seda145/Ferrefy-Plugin-Custom-Settings: This plugin is for Unreal Engine. It makes implementation of engine and custom settings simple and efficient. On top of that, it comes with a complete main menu UI.

Here’s the documentation:

Documentation - Plugin: Custom Settings