How and What to Change

shadowQuality:t="ultrahigh"

shadows:b=yes

To begin open the War Thunder launcher and max all the settings possible for ultra low quality except for terrain deformation and terrain far details.Once completed your launcher should look like this: Then navigate to the War Thunder folder that contains the config.blk file, through steam this is done by right clicking on war thunder in your library and selecting properties then selecting local files and clicking on browse local files.From there open the config.blk file with notepad and change any setting to your liking, these are the following settings I have changed from the three main graphics sections: video, graphics, and render.video{postfx_antialiasing:t="high_fxaa"graphics{advancedShore:b=yesfxDensityMul:r=1 (increases smoke and debris possibly not benefitial for ulq, alternatively setting this to 0 will remove ground smoke from machine guns and almost negate gun ground smoke but will also remove fire, you will not know when someone is on fire nor yourself)waterReflectionTexDiv:i=2backgroundScale:r=2 (equivelant to DSR will cause fps drop)rendinstDistMul:r=0 (default 0.5 this decreases render distance of objects haven't done enough testing to see if it works below 0.5)lenseFlares:b=yes (personal option)(Shadows seem to be off even if you attempt to turn them on so no need for this)cloudsQuality:i=0skyQuality:i=1enableSuspensionAnimation:b=yeslandquality:i=4physicsQuality:i=5waterRefractionEnabledFor:i=2render{fxReflection:b=yeswaterReflection:b=yesrendinstGlobalShadows:b=yessoftFx:b=yesssaoQuality:i=2waterRefraction:b=yesssrQuality:i=2Once you have changed the settings to your liking you must, this will cause the launcher to say cannot update graphics settings which just meants it cannot overwrite them but will still allow you to play.Changing these settings will make your launcher look like this: