Captain_Tom said:
Zekkyou said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Also, I'd suggest waiting for DF to confirm this.
I find it odd other areas look virtually the same but they had to cut back on grass.
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Agreed, i'm still not convinced this comparison is legit. That said, lowering the amount or quality of foliage/grass is a common method of freeing up resources. You'd be surprised how demanding grass can be :p Especially if the lighting engine reacts to said grass.
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I learned white well how demanding foliage is. A few years ago I tried playing Obilion on my $300 netbook (HD 6310 graphics) and I was only getting ~10-15 FPS. I simply turned grass off and boom: 20-30 FPS.
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There was actually a fix for that.
You could have gotten the low-poly grass and tree mods, combined with no-wind.
The mods actually didn't degrade the quality that much either, but the performance benefits were big.
Looking forward to GTA 5 PC next year, where I can run it in eyefinity, with all the things turned on, it's gonna' be glorious.