Gaming. Ports and graphics settings

Source: Porting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Developers Port a game, and when its played on your PC you can add Anti-aliasing and bump up the resolution. Now there are some other settings such as post fx, textures,shadows,shaders,lighting, dx11. when you enable these settings with a port you get a small increase in Image quality(excluding resolution and AA). the small increase in Image quality can be so minute you would need to take pictures and compare side by side.

Ever see a movie in 3d that was originally 2d and how it looks 3d but the difference is so minute that it isn't even worthy of being called 3d, well I personally feel with all these ports the graphics settings over so little they are best left turned down 1 notch 2 notches or even 3 notches in some cases.

I personally prefer 45-80 fps in a First person shooter and missing a touch of paint have you, then getting 20-40 fps with that added touch of paint have you.


So the big question is, If you know it's a port then why are you so diligent to have it maxed out, you can't be serious can you? If your serious (in out and or) my brain gets a syntax error.

 

You already have a thread for this

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=702015

 

This thread is better developed. and if the mods are listening please delete other thread! ty

 

I've got this weird sense of deja vu.

 

lol

rep when i can

 

Well for me, I need 60fps for multiplayer, but for single player as long as the minimum fps is 30 it is all good. I just play with my graphics settings to reach these performance targets and don't really worry about the game being a console port or not.

 

Apart from strategy titles like Civ 5, the other PC exclusives I've played (Witcher 1, Witcher 2, Hard Reset, Dota 2, Secret World) weren't especially mindblowing compared to multiplatform games. In fact, Witcher 2 seems to run like crap on most PCs, and there is not a big range of graphics settings options.

In contrast, Counterstrike: Global Offensive is a multiplatform game, but the PC version seems to be much better optimized for PC than some PC exclusives. CS:GO makes great use of your multicore CPU to get better frame rate even if your graphics card is not super high end.

Hopefully the next gen consoles will use x86-64 architecture and perhaps more games will be better optimized for modern CPUs, less GPU-bound.

 

Because we can.