Dr.Grass said:
When I build my awesome, high-budget desktop in a few years I sure as hell hope you're still around here. |
Dr. Grass, I'll gladly help you out. You can always message me in my Inbox even if I disappear for some reason. I am thinking of doing my masters soon but hopefully I'll still have enough time to keep up with PC hardware as a hobby.
| Shinobi-san said: The other issue i have with Far Cry 3 is that there really isnt much difference to the overall look of the game at the different settings. Theres a few games out there where you can immediately pick up the difference when you drop to lower settings...but Far Cry 3 simply isnt one of those games. It looks good at all settings. |
Ya, that happens with a lot of games, like Crysis 2. There is a very large penalty on playing FC3 maxed out vs. on very high but the game still looks gorgeous on very high.
Very High - http://static.techspot.com/articles-info/615/bench/1920_02.png
Ultra - http://static.techspot.com/articles-info/615/bench/1920_01.png
Alpha-to-Coverage (A2C) "Enhanced" only works when at least 2xMSAA is turned on. When A2C and MSAA are turned on, the performance hit is 15-20 fps. Also going from SSAO/Shadows on High to HDAO/Shadows on Ultra drops frames about 10 fps.
The most common settings in modern games that kill performance are MSAA (not FXAA/MLAA/TXAA), Ambient Occlusion (that's your SSAO/HBAO/HDAO) / Shadow settings, Tessellation and Global Illumination. You can gain a lot of performance turning some of these down from Ultra to High or Medium in games to get a lot more performance if needed.
