Last month, Gears of Wars 4 developer The Coalition promised that the fourth installment of the excellent shooter would come with a slew of PC-exclusive graphical features, giving players "full control" over how the game looks. Now, a video from Gamescom has shown just how extensive these options are.

The clip was posted by HomeCinéma-FR.com (along with some stills on its forum). It seems that The Coalition wasn't exaggerating; I can think of few other games that offer so many gfx choices. It's even possible to adjust the quality of the cut scenes.

Like most titles, there are basic and advanced video settings options. Basic has the common brightness, field of view, and V-Sync controls, but also lets you change the texture settings for five different game elements, as well as adjusting the quality settings for things like light shafts and bloom. There's also the usual texture filtering and anti-aliasing options.

Things get really in-depth once you open the advanced settings. It's here that you can manipulate the particle spawn rate, increase or decrease the temporal AA sharpening, and change the dynamic resolution scaling, along with a host of other options.

Gears of War 4 also shows the impact changing each setting has on the CPU, GPU, and VRAM.

Earlier this week, The Coalition's director of community, Adam Fletcher, revealed the kind of PC hardware required to get the absolute best experience from the game. Unsurprisingly, you'll need a Core i7-4790 CPU @ 4GHz, a GeForce 980Ti or GTX 1080 with 6GB of VRAM, 16GB of regular RAM and 80GB of free SSD space. AMD users will require an FX-9590 CPU, a Radeon R9 Fury X GPU with 4GB of VRAM.

Here is the full list of PC graphics settings in Gears of War 4:

BASIC

General Settings

  • Display mode
  • Resolution
  • Frame rate limit
  • Vertical sync
  • Brightness
  • Field of view
  • Show Stats

Texture Settings

  • Character texture detail
  • World texture detail
  • Vehicle texture detail
  • Effects texture detail
  • Lighting texture detail
  • Texture filtering

Visual Settings

  • Shadow quality
  • Post process quality
  • Anti-aliasing quality
  • Ambient occlusion quality
  • Ambient occlusion intensity
  • Light shaft quality
  • Light scattering quality
  • Lens flare quality
  • Bloom quality
  • Motion Blur

ADVANCED

  • Grass draw distance
  • World level of detail
  • Character level of detail
  • Screen space reflections
  • Environment reflections
  • Particle spawn rate
  • Sharpening
  • Temporal AA sharpening

Real Time Cinematics

  • Depth of field
  • Sub surface scattering

Advanced Settings

  • Dynamic resolution scaling
  • Dynamic resolution amount
  • Multi GPU
  • Async compute
  • Tiled resources
  • Aliased render targets