RIVALSFPS.GG FAQ
What the app does, what it changes on your PC, and what mods mean for your Marvel Rivals account. For why Windows and antivirus warn about it, a short list of what it changes, and how to undo it, see Is RIVALSFPS.GG safe?
RIVALSFPS.GG is a free mod manager and launcher for Marvel Rivals on Windows 10 and 11. It manages every mod in your game folder, installs skins, builds graphic packs on your own PC, replaces hit, kill and announcer sounds, color grades the game through ReShade, and offers 14 Windows Optimizations. Its Quality tab can also trade resolution for FPS on any graphics card with Lower Render Resolution, and lower texture detail with presets that work through the NVIDIA driver, so they are NVIDIA only. It works with Steam, Epic Games and Loading Bay.
Yes. There is no price, no account and no paid tier. Donations are optional, and every feature is available without one. Download the installer only from rivalsfps.gg or the official GitHub releases page.
RIVALSFPS.GG puts mod files into your Marvel Rivals folder, keeps its own data in %APPDATA%\RivalsFPS, starts with Windows by default, registers its name and icon for Windows notifications, and changes other settings only when you use a feature. The Safety page sums up what it changes and how to undo it. For your game account nobody outside NetEase can promise anything: NetEase's published rules prohibit modifying the game client.
It is not a cheat. The app itself contains no code that reads or writes the game's memory, and it does not aim for you. It installs files, the same files you could drop in by hand; one of them, the Signature Bypass, is a plugin the game loads at startup so it will accept mod paks. Mods are still mods, though: NetEase's published rules prohibit modifying the game client, graphic packs included, so the risk is real and it is yours to take. What the app does is tell you which parts are risky and hand you the off switch. Mods the app knows can get accounts temporarily banned carry a Flagged badge with the reason and a support code, Remove it takes them out, and the same check runs again when you press Launch. Skins and graphic packs are client side, so other players see the defaults. Pressing End switches Color Correction off mid-match, and Revert All Changes in Settings undoes everything the app changed.
Because the app is unsigned. SmartScreen checks a file's download reputation, and apps without a paid code-signing certificate get flagged until enough people have downloaded them. Click More info, then Run anyway. If Windows asks for permission when you install the Signature Bypass, the prompt says Unknown publisher for the same reason.
A required component that lets the game load mods, graphic packs, skins and sound mods. Nothing loads without it, and the Quality presets (NVIDIA only) need it too. It is built into the app, with no separate download, and because it writes into the game's Binaries\Win64 folder, Windows usually asks for permission when you install it. It writes three files there: dsound.dll (ThirteenAG's Ultimate ASI Loader), plugins\MarvelRivalsUTOCSignatureBypass.asi and the loader's license text. It is DeathChaos's work, redistributed with permission.
A tab that lists every mod in the game's ~mods folder, including ones you installed yourself. Each mod has a switch that unloads it without deleting the files, and the app reads every enabled mod's file list so it can warn you when two of them contain the same game asset, naming both the mods and the assets. Mods the app knows can get accounts temporarily banned are badged Flagged with the reason and a support code, and Remove it takes them out. You can import .pak, .utoc, .ucas, .zip, .7z or .rar files or drop files on the window, search and filter, rename, and delete a mod outright when you want it gone. An add-on made for another mod is labeled Add-on rather than a conflict, with Load first when its base covers it, and when a game update changes how mods are packaged, Fix Mods for Game Update in the Tools menu repackages the ones it stopped loading.
Inside the game folder, at MarvelGame\Marvel\Content\Paks\~mods. Mods in subfolders inside ~mods load too. The Mod Manager's Open Mods Folder button opens it.
The installer is not code-signed, so every new build starts with no reputation, and it carries a DLL loader and the Signature Bypass plugin, which it writes into the game's Binaries\Win64 folder, usually after a Windows permission prompt. Heuristic engines read that pattern as suspicious. The detections so far have been machine-learning verdicts, not matches for known malware. If antivirus removes the bypass files right after install, the app reports that they did not fully install.
The Mod Manager lists them: it shows every mod in the ~mods folder, whichever tool put it there. Import takes .pak, .utoc, .ucas, .zip, .7z and .rar files, and Browse on Nexus Mods opens the Marvel Rivals mods page in your browser. Mods packaged before the September 3, 2026 game update show an Outdated badge, and its Fix button repackages them.
Steam, Epic Games, and Loading Bay (NetEase). The app detects which launcher your copy uses, and you can browse to the game folder manually if your install is non-standard.
Turn on Skip Launcher, in Launch Options on Home or in Settings on the Launch tab. It is on by default and applies when you start the game from the app: it sets the game's own launch_record flag before the launch and puts the earlier value back when the game closes. The launcher still runs in the background; only its window is skipped.
Nobody outside NetEase can say how the game treats a config. RIVALSFPS.GG retired its config paks in version 3.4.2 with the note 'Using configs may result in bans.' If a .pak in your mods folder carries its own game config, the app now shows it with a Config badge and asks you to remove it before it launches the game.
A graphic pack replaces the game's map and environment textures with simpler ones in its own look, built on your PC from your own game files. Competitive Dark Gray is about 2% more FPS in testing; the other colorways have no published figure. Six colorways ship (Competitive Dark Gray, Competitive Gray, Amethyst Dawn, Black Crimson, Royal Blue and Rose Gold), with Quake V3 and Quake V3 Blue under Legacy Graphic Packs, and one runs at a time. Graphic Pack Settings, above the library, add a Preset dropdown (Default, Max FPS, Balanced, Pretty) and eight settings. Lights: Reduced is about 7% more FPS in testing; Shadows: Reduced and Background: Hidden are about 2% more FPS in testing each. Packs from RIVALSFPS.GG apply when you start the game with the Launch button; packs you imported yourself always apply.
Yes. Press Custom Pack in the Graphics tab's header, or Create on the library's Create Your Own Pack row, and the Custom Graphic Pack builder opens. Give it a name, then pick a tone ramp of two to five color stops, darkest first. Every texture keeps its own brightness and takes the color at that point on the ramp, so it is a luminance-preserving recolor rather than a hue shift or a straight replacement. Two identical stops give the flat single-color look the Quake bases are built on. A gamma slider bends where the mid-tones land, terrain can be recolored, forced to one color, or left alone, and foliage tint is either a color or none. It builds on your PC from your own game files, joins your library beside the shipped packs, and stays editable from the gear on its row.
Quality Settings holds two features. Lower Render Resolution works on any graphics card: it renders the game smaller and scales it back up, at Ultra Performance, Performance, Balanced or Quality strength, and needs the game's Anti-Aliasing and Super Resolution Type on DLSS, TSR, FSR or XeSS. The Quality presets (Ultra Potato, Potato and Standard) are NVIDIA only: they lower texture detail through the NVIDIA driver, and on AMD and Intel each row reads Not available for your GPU. The first preset you activate adds map compatibility files to your mods folder, and presets need the Signature Bypass. Both apply when you press Launch and are put back when the game closes.
It files character skin mods under the hero they replace and names each one with the real costume name read from your own game, so a mod reads as the hero and outfit it takes over rather than as a filename. There is a roster rail of hero portraits, Import, Refresh and a Tools menu (Remove Duplicates, Disable All Skin Mods, Organize Skin Mods), plus a 3D preview that renders the mod's actual mesh from your own game files in the game's cel-shaded style, posed like the hero screen with its idle animation and weapon. Recolors preview too, and a skin the game can't read shows as Broken. Skins are additive: run as many as you like at once, one per costume slot, and the app flags two of them claiming the same slot so you can choose which one stays on. Add-ons for another skin, like tattoos or hair colors, are recognized and shown on top of the skin they belong to, and if one is covered, Load first fixes it. It is client side only, so other players still see the default skin.
Color Correction is the app's color grading: vibrance, contrast, midtones and black level, with Default, Soft, Vivid and Bold presets and a per-channel vibrance balance if you want to go further. There is a live preview on a real game frame that needs nothing installed and downloads nothing, and pressing and holding it shows the untouched frame to compare against. You can try that same previewer in your browser at rivalsfps.gg/reshade/. It runs the identical shader text the .fx file runs in game, so what you set is what you get in a match. In game it works through ReShade, which is free and open source. The app never bundles or hosts it: it links crosire's own installer at reshade.me, finds the downloaded file in your Downloads folder, and runs the setup already pointed at the game. Pressing End switches the effect off instantly, and turning it off in the app renames the proxy DLL so ReShade never loads.
No, we do not provide the no shake mod.
It shares usage stats by default. They are pseudonymous rather than anonymous: a hashed device ID rides along so devices can be counted, but your name, email, game account, file paths and filenames never do. You can turn sharing off any time in Settings, on the App tab, under Analytics, which stops the description of how you use the app. It does not stop every transmission: a device check-in and failure reports carry on, and the Privacy page sets out exactly what those contain. Discord Rich Presence is on by default too, and it only ever shows Playing Marvel Rivals or In app, never a mod, a pak or a setting. That is switchable off as well.
By default, RIVALSFPS.GG adds itself to Windows startup (Settings, Launch tab, Run on Computer Startup turns that off), registers its name and icon for Windows notifications, and keeps its settings, caches and backups in %APPDATA%\RivalsFPS. On every install and start it also deletes an old portable build of the app from Downloads or the Desktop, but only a file whose SHA-256 matches a known build of the app itself. Everything else happens when you use a feature: the Signature Bypass goes into the game's Binaries\Win64 folder; graphic packs, skins, sound mods and mods you import go into Content\Paks\~mods; Color Correction writes ReShade.ini for a ReShade you installed yourself; Skip Launcher (on by default), Skip Intro Videos, Lower Render Resolution and Stretched Resolution change a game file, a game setting or the display mode around a launch from the app and put it back when the game closes; a Quality preset (NVIDIA only) writes the NVIDIA driver's Marvel Rivals profile while you play; Windows Optimizations change registry, power and network adapter settings; and the HD Texture Pack switch edits Steam's manifest. The Safety page sums up the main ones and how to undo them.
To remove the app, uninstall RIVALSFPS.GG from Apps in Windows Settings. The uninstaller's confirm page has two options, both off by default: Also undo every change made to Marvel Rivals, which takes packs, the Signature Bypass, Windows tweaks and ReShade back out and leaves your own mods alone, and Delete my RIVALSFPS.GG settings and cache. It always puts the game's launcher setting back and removes the startup entry. The %APPDATA%\RivalsFPS folder is left for you to delete by hand. To reset the game and keep the app, open Settings, go to the Diagnostics tab and use Revert All Changes. A Quality preset (NVIDIA only) needs no undoing: it is put back the moment the game closes, and so is the setting Lower Render Resolution writes. The game has to be closed first, and a few of the Windows tweaks need a restart to finish backing out.
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, and a copy of Marvel Rivals. It is a Windows-only desktop app. There is no macOS, Linux, or console version. Any graphics card runs the app, and Lower Render Resolution works on any card; the Quality presets are NVIDIA only.
No. RIVALSFPS.GG is an independent, community-made project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Marvel, NetEase Games, or the Marvel Rivals development team.
No. RIVALSFPS.GG works only with NetEase's Marvel Rivals on Windows, from a Steam, Epic Games or Loading Bay copy. It has nothing to do with the Roblox game RIVALS or any server named after it.
This website (rivalsfps.gg), the Discord server at rivalsfps.gg/discord, the GitHub releases page at github.com/cistgitvc/RIVALSFPS.GG/releases, the TikTok account @rivalsfps.gg, and ko-fi.com/rivalsfps for optional donations. Download the app only from rivalsfps.gg or that GitHub page.
