Raising an old issue, again, and will continue to do so

[Baron]

Originally Posted by tintifaxl

The way you state this, I get the impression the fps improvement is not entirely due to the coders improving the grafics engine but to the modellers and artists dumbing down the models and textures.

I did a test a few days ago with the rig in my sig.


Black Death with everything set to max with roads, lighting and grass turned on. FXAA in NVidia controle panel ON.

Min 5 Max 80 avg 37


Black Death with everything set to medium with roads, lighting and grass turned on. FXAA in NVidia control panel ON.

min 14 Max 82 Avg 51



I know from same tests that the differance in lowest fps is due to the new "medium effects", nothing else.

So turning down all the settings from maximum to medium, quite a big step if you ask me, gives one 14 (?) more average fps. Dont ask me if that's because of effective streamlining or reduction in highest quality. All i know is that highest quality visuals is sometimes no way near what i would call maximum settings (see previous pics posted.)

Haven't tested with roads, grass, lighting yet.