Wanting info on manually optimizing Graphic Settings.

[GuestForeverX]

Ok So I have to re-write this tread again (Wrong button WHY?!)

So I am trying to optimize my games outside of Nvidia GeForce Experience

Because a lot of the time they don't offer much middle ground.  Low<- ->Ultra. What Happened to Medium and High?  :huh:

 

I like to run my games at 60fps over quality, to me it looks better. Running on FX-8320/8gb 1866/GTX 660 3GB  

 

I mostly know what the settings do already, but I don't know which ones necessarily are harder to run.

So I'm wondering what settings tax the most out of games in order. Instead of just me guessing.

Phys-X

Fur

Parallax

Tessellation

View Distance

Foliage Distance

FOV

Dynamic Ambient Occlusion

Terrain/Scene Decoration

Terrain/Scene Detail

Anisotropic Filtering

AA

AA-Deferred

AA-Post

Post Processing Detail

Reflections

Water Map

Texture Detail

Shadow Detail

Various Fog Effects

 

Thanks for reading my long post 

[MegaDave91]

Hmm, that's a lot to order. I'll say AA, tessellation and post processing though.

[scaryjam823]

All AA takes a big hit, post processing takes a lot of power. The other things you listed do take a performance hit but not as big as AA, anisotropic filtering and post processing. Just turn each one on and off as you play. See the difference in visuals AND in performance. Then you'll learn what you're willing to sacrifice for performance or what you're willing to deal with for visuals. Obviously the highest of everything is most approved by everyone, but what people can settle with turned off depends on the person. Just test and see what works for you. Within 30 minutes of testing you'll learn what you like most and can apply it to all games.

[mvitkun]

@GuestForeverX

AA, tesselation, view distance, post processing, and if by texture detail you mean the texture resolution then that as well.

 

Certain ambient occlusion solutions can be quite intensive as well.

 

Terrain/scene detail may or may not contribute much to performance gains or losses depending on how much of the terrain is populated on low vs high.

 

PhysX will significantly hurt performance  if you don't use an Nvidia card with it.In general with how powerful cards are today PhysX in itself isn't too demanding with the way most games use it. 

[Zims]

Off topic but I was really hoping for ltt video about game settings

[MegaDave91]

Off topic but I was really hoping for ltt video about game settings

Best way is to play with the settings and you'll find out which ones are most taxing your on your pc.