MarkusAtticus Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 improve game performance, im on the highest res at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkusAtticus Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 please answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenjaminminU Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 please answer This, i want to know aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkusAtticus Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 and if it does, which res is best to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlacke Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 (edited) You have to test it yourself, but lowering resolution from lets say full HD 1920 x 1080 to something less, lets say 1680 x 1050 wide, should improve performance on a medium quality machine. Edited January 15, 2012 by Vlacke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garric Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 It does on my machine. I would suggest just trying it and seeing what works. CTRL- Shift F will show an FPS meter. Put that up and try out different resolutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urko Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 High option doesnt do anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sythedragon Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Lowering your resolution lowers the amount of pixels being rendered, which should in turn raise FPS. But I'd never use anything other than my native resolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthBubba Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Yes, a higher resolution always impacts game performance hence the reason why some video cards can't even get to the max resolution. My monitors resolution is 1440X900 and my brothers is alot higher. I have much better performance than he does. But I have a better pc also. Just play around with it and try to find a good ratio between performance and how it looks. Some resolutions will make it look too wide/small - crappy lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChaosZero Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Yes it does but the game will look more blurry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiron_Raptor Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 In theory it can affect performance more than any other adjustment... But something to keep in mind is that LCD monitors have a 'Native Resolution': this is the actual physical resolution of the monitor, the actual number of physical pixels it actually has. If you use any other resolution than the native resolution, it has to use Interpolation to display it, which is almost certainly going to introduce artifacts. In theory it wouldn't if the native resolution was a multiple of the resolution you were using, but for 1920x1080 that'd be 960x540...which is stupidly small. For that reason it's a good idea to leave it on your native resolution unless you absolutely cannot for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkusAtticus Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 Yes, a higher resolution always impacts game performance hence the reason why some video cards can't even get to the max resolution. My monitors resolution is 1440X900 and my brothers is alot higher. I have much better performance than he does. But I have a better pc also. Just play around with it and try to find a good ratio between performance and how it looks. Some resolutions will make it look too wide/small - crappy lol. yeah im noticing lol id rather it lack fps the look at this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gleneagle Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Recommend turning off shadows first to see if that does the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiron_Raptor Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 yeah im noticing lol id rather it lack fps the look at this Well the other settings likely to give a boost in FPS if turned down are these(not necessarily in order): Shadows (Disproportionately HUGE impact for some reason, may be CPU-only for some unknown reason, try this one first) Shaders Bloom Anisotropic Filtering Texture quality should only cause problems if you don't have enough Video RAM for the setting you've chosen (barring the 'can't read it off the hard drive fast enough' problem the super-high textures apparently have...which could be largely solved if they were just loaded into VRAM to start with!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkusAtticus Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 Recommend turning off shadows first to see if that does the trick. there off, and everything is on low, even grass and trees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastellon Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 I lowered my 24inch 1920x1200 to several of the lower settings. You get better fps but the interpolation makes the total picture look fuzzy. It gets worse as you go down. Playing this game on low settings is not an option for me it looks like crap. In general however, for optimal image quality you should increase any resolution setting to the maximum possible - whether in a game, or in Windows - as this matches your LCD monitor's native resolution and provides the crispest possible image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiron_Raptor Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 I lowered my 24inch 1920x1200 to several of the lower settings. You get better fps but the interpolation makes the total picture look fuzzy. It gets worse as you go down. Playing this game on low settings is not an option for me it looks like crap. In general however, for optimal image quality you should increase any resolution setting to the maximum possible - whether in a game, or in Windows - as this matches your LCD monitor's native resolution and provides the crispest possible image. If you managed to get it down to 960x600 somehow (not a real setting that I've ever seen), in theory you'd lose the interpolation entirely. It'd still look crappy because of the resolution being so low, but you'd get blocks of 4 physical pixels perfectly corresponding to each logical pixel, so the interpolation wouldn't be an issue, at least in theory. Barring that, yes, the interpolation is going to screw things up if you don't use your native resolution (which is almost always the highest res it reports to windows it's capable of) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannic Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 (edited) It depends on your rig. I mean, in theory, yes, it's easier for your graphics card to fill a lower-res image. But newer graphics cards have an abundance of power so that they can do things like display on multiple screens at once. So if you're on an older rig you might see a fairly noticeable gain from reducing resolution, but on a newer machine, you might gain 5 FPS (if that.) 1920 x 1080 (1080P) is the standard, so most games are being developed to provide smooth framerates at that resolution. Edited January 15, 2012 by Mannic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazysam Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 It will!! start with the highest and graduatly lower it till you get something decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfabulous Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 windowed and lowest res, where it actually changes the displayed game screen size helps a bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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