By: Graeme Willy

Graeme Willy — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:59:00 +0000

You should just go all out and let you really artistically control the graphics settings. Part of the neat thing about PC is that even if you have a lower end – midrange PC, you can tweak things in a very unique fashion to muster up frames, while making it looks pretty nice and balanced. A lot of these things that you are hard pressed to tell a difference –like shadow scale, shadow resolution(this is a big on, why do you need the upward of 2000-3000+pixels in shadow resolution? When it’s hard to tell if it is set as low as 512-1024?), same with texture resolution. Unless you walk up to walls and pixel peep, you aren’t going to see much a difference between medium and high…or even low. The lower you go in texture res, the lower you should go on anisotropic filtering, as too much filtering just reveals and/ or makes apparent more flaws or any lack of details, and lowering that will pick even more performance up for you. Anti-aliasing is another thing. Let console players choose between FXAA/ MLAA, or the default, which is likely to be MSAA 2x/ MSAA 4x/ SMAA 1x. Of course, present these settings in the most easiest to understand method, as usual. I’ve always disliked the idea that the devs chose how to balance the graphics delicately on console. They always seemed to prize graphical effect, texture res and lighting over a clean picture, keeping things like post processing and resolution at a minimum. I’ve always wanted to forego those things and go higher on post processing.

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By: Graeme Willy