Verify the install — Ungodly Bendy Installation Guide

On diskCheck one: the folder tree¶

This is what a complete, correct install looks like. Compare it against your own game folder.

The complete install

Bendy and the Ink Machine\
│
├─ Bendy and the Ink Machine.exe        the game
├─ Bendy and the Ink Machine_Data\      the game
├─ MonoBleedingEdge\                    the game
├─ UnityPlayer.dll                      the game
├─ UnityCrashHandler64.exe              the game
├─ steam_api64.dll                      the game (Steam copies)
│
├─ winhttp.dll                          BepInEx  <- the hook. Must be HERE, beside the .exe
├─ doorstop_config.ini                  BepInEx  <- the hook
├─ .doorstop_version                    BepInEx
├─ changelog.txt                        BepInEx
│
└─ BepInEx\
   ├─ cache\
   │  └─ chainloader_typeloader.dat      rebuilt whenever plugins change
   ├─ config\
   │  ├─ BepInEx.cfg                     the loader's own settings
   │  └─ stixsworldhd.bendy.ungodlyenhanced.cfg
   │                                     generated on first run of Enhanced
   ├─ core\
   │  ├─ 0Harmony.dll
   │  ├─ BepInEx.dll
   │  ├─ BepInEx.Preloader.dll
   │  └─ Mono.Cecil*.dll
   ├─ patchers\                          empty, and that is correct
   ├─ plugins\
   │  ├─ UngodlyBendyEnhanced.dll        <- Enhanced v1.2.0
   │  └─ UngodlyBendyCommunityPatch.dll  <- Community Patch v1.1.3
   └─ LogOutput.log                      rewritten every launch

The same thing, in Explorer

Four captures of a finished install. Click any of them to read the file sizes and dates at full size.

Windows Explorer showing the game folder — the game folderA finished install. Eleven items: three folders, the game executable, and the five loose files BepInEx adds — .doorstop_version, changelog.txt, doorstop_config.ini and winhttp.dll sitting directly beside Bendy and the Ink Machine.exe. That adjacency is the whole trick; one folder deeper and none of it loads.

Windows Explorer showing the BepInEx folder — the BepInEx folderSix items. cache, core and patchers you never touch. config holds the settings files, plugins holds the mods, and LogOutput.log is rewritten on every launch — here it is 41 KB, which is a healthy run rather than an early crash.

Windows Explorer showing the plugins folder — the plugins folderThe entire mod install: two DLLs, 54 KB and 242 KB. Nothing else belongs in here — no READMEs, no extracted folders, no .rar files.

Windows Explorer showing the config folder — the config folderBoth files are generated automatically on first run, not shipped in the archives. BepInEx.cfg is the loader's own settings; the 88 KB stixsworldhd.bendy.ungodlyenhanced.cfg is every one of the 222 settings written out in plain text with its description, type, default and valid range.

If this is missing or wrong	What it means	Fix
`winhttp.dll` is not beside the .exe	BepInEx was extracted one folder too deep, or not at all.	Redo BepInEx step 2
`BepInEx\plugins\` does not exist	BepInEx has never successfully run.	BepInEx troubleshooting
`plugins\` exists but is empty	You extracted the archives but did not copy the DLLs in.	Enhanced step 3, Patch step 3
No `stixsworldhd.bendy.ungodlyenhanced.cfg` in `config\`	Enhanced has not run yet, or it failed to load.	Launch the game once, then check again
A `.dll` sits in `BepInEx\` itself	Wrong folder — it will never be loaded from there.	Move it into `plugins\`

In LogOutput.logCheck two: the log¶

Open <game folder>\BepInEx\LogOutput.log in Notepad. You are looking for three things.

1. BepInEx started

Near the top

[Message:   BepInEx] BepInEx 5.4.23.5 - Bendy and the Ink Machine
[Info   :   BepInEx] Running under Unity v2022.3.x
[Message:   BepInEx] Preloader started
[Message:   BepInEx] Preloader finished

2. Both plugins were found and loaded

The chainloader

[Message: Chainloader] Chainloader ready
[Info   : Chainloader] 2 plugins to load
[Info   : Chainloader] Loading [Ungodly Bendy Enhanced 1.2.0]
[Info   : Chainloader] Loading [Ungodly Bendy Community Patch 1.1.3]

The number in N plugins to load is the fastest single check on this whole page.

Log says	Meaning
`2 plugins to load`	Correct. Both DLLs found.
`1 plugins to load`	Only one DLL is in `plugins\`. Check which.
`0 plugins to load`	BepInEx is running but the folder is empty or the DLLs are elsewhere.
No Chainloader line at all	BepInEx did not start. Nothing after this matters until that is fixed.

3. Enhanced printed its banner

Enhanced announcing itself

=============================================================
 Ungodly Bendy Enhanced v1.2.0
 by StixsworldHD (StixsmasterHD4k)
 Press F7 in game to open the settings window.
=============================================================

LiveCheck three: in the game¶

Launch the game, get to the main menu, and press F7. The settings window opens over the top.

General tab of the Ungodly Bendy Enhanced settings window — GeneralThe window open at the main menu. The tab list runs down the left, the live status panel sits beneath it, and the settings pane on the right carries a plain-English explanation under every entry.

Read the status panel

Bottom-left of the window. It is reporting what the mod has actually found on your machine, in this scene, right now — which makes it the most useful diagnostic in the whole mod.

Line	What it means	What you want to see
Resolution	The resolution the game is running at this instant.	Your actual resolution
Aspect	The calculated aspect ratio label for it.	A sensible ratio — 16:9, 21:9, 16:10
UI scale	The final scale factor being applied to the interface.	`x1.000` at 1080p; about `x2.000` at 4K
Canvases	How many UI canvases the mod found and took control of.	At least 1
Profiles	Post-processing profiles found in this scene.	`0` at the main menu is normal — check again in a chapter
Cameras	Cameras found. Bendy uses a world camera and a weapon camera.	2 in gameplay
Menu fit	Whether the aspect-ratio patch installed.	`patched`
SSAA	Supersampling state.	`off` unless you turned it on
physics rate	What the jitter fix decided to do.	See the table below

Reading the physics rate line

It says	Meaning	Action
`vanilla (no player in scene)`	You are in a menu. There is no player to compensate, so nothing has been changed yet. This is correct at the main menu.	Start a chapter and look again
`144 Hz (compensated)` or similar	Working. The physics rate was raised to match your display and the gravity compensation was applied successfully.	Nothing — this is the goal
`compensation unavailable`	The game has been patched and the fields the compensation needs could not be found. The mod is correctly refusing to change the physics rate, because broken jump heights are worse than a little jitter.	Nothing you can do. Everything else still works.
`vanilla` in gameplay	Physics Update Rate is set to `Off` on the Smoothness tab.	Set it to `MatchRefreshRate`

DiagnosticsCheck four: the About tab¶

The last tab in the list carries a Diagnostics panel that goes further than the sidebar. This is the single most useful screen in the mod, and the one to screenshot if you ever need to report a problem.

About tab of the Ungodly Bendy Enhanced settings window — AboutThe About tab at the main menu. The Diagnostics panel in the lower half reports what the mod actually found on this machine, in this scene — not what it hoped to find.

Reading the Diagnostics panel

Line	Shown here	What it tells you
Post-processing	`no post-processing profiles found`	Correct at the main menu. The menu scene has no profiles. Check again inside a chapter, where it should report two.
Cameras	`2 camera(s): Weapon, UI`	Which cameras were found and identified. In gameplay you also get the world camera.
Managed canvases	`1`	How many UI canvases the scaler has taken control of. Anything above 0 means the UI fix is live.
Volumetric renderers	`0`	Zero at the menu is normal. In a chapter this should be 1.
Brightness effect	`available`	The vanilla brightness clamp was located and can be bypassed.
Menu aspect patch	`installed`	The one to check. The Harmony patch on `AspectRatioUtil` applied — this is the ultrawide fix.
Supersampling	`off`	Off unless you turned it on. If it says it failed, the log explains why.
Smoothness	`vanilla (no player in scene)`	Correct at the menu. In a chapter this becomes your refresh rate plus a compensation state.
Detected resolutions	`26`	How many display modes were merged from the seven sources. A plausible number for a single 1080p panel.

Two buttons sit under the panel:

Rescan everything now — forces an immediate sweep for cameras, profiles and canvases rather than waiting for the timer. Useful if you have just loaded into a chapter and want the numbers to update at once.
Re-enable supersampling — clears the failure latch if SSAA switched itself off. It disables itself deliberately when the camera stack cannot accept a presenter without disturbing draw order, or when the GPU refuses the buffer size; the log says which.

DoneIf all four checks pass¶

The install is complete and you can stop reading. Everything after this page is optional: a reference for the settings, some starting points for your hardware, and a troubleshooting page for if something goes wrong later.