A very simple trick for running your games on high settings (mostly)

Hey all,

This may be common knowledge, but I'd thought I'd post it just in case.

For most FPS games like BFBC2 or any other, you can set everything to high settings and get great FPS as long as you set any "Shadow" or "Shader" settings to "low"

Shadows are what taxes a GPU in games more than anything, while they look nice, you can usually use that power instead for high settings and extra effects like bloom lighting, etc.

In other words, instead of setting your game to "Medium" settings, you can set everything to High and set shadows to Low, and get the same performance.

Example: For BFBC2 my in game settings that stay above 30fps+ and get really sick visuals is -

Everything set to high except shadows, which is set to low.

Ansio can go all the way to 16x

Vsynch can be turned on.

HBAO should be left off. Turning it on costs about 10fps

**Crysis and Crysis Warhead seem to be the two games that for me do better on Medium settings. The game will say it can play at high, but when I do I get texture issues on some of the guns. Setting it to Medium fixes this. Actually, all you have to do is set your texture setting to Mainstream to fix this and can run everything at Gamer. But when I do it plays around 20-24fps. Whereas when I set it to Medium, most of the time it is 40fps+. You can probably find a good balance between the two by setting objects and shaders and shadows to mainstream and everything else to gamer.

But all the 40 other main title games I've played can run great at high settings with the low shadows trick.**

Again, this is gaming tweaks 101, but in case any noobs are in here and want to see what their m11x can really do, this is an easy trick.

Cheers

 

Thanks. Will try this on some games.