What Do My Graphics Settings Mean?

[Deservate]

So what does everything in my Graphics setting menu mean? (IE what is runtime tessalation? And what is Depth of Field?) And how much does it affect my FPS?

 

I have:
-An AMD HD 6670 Graphics card (1 GB RAM)
-An ATI 2.7 GHz dual core CPU

 

What do you recommend for me? I'd like to hear it from someone that is really experienced at that stage

[Rathie]

Hey , what is your RAM? 

I'm not sure if you mean your graphics card is 1 GB or you have 1 GB of RAM.

and what resolution do you play your game on this can also effect things. 

 

Edit:

I say this to a lot of friends, that the human eye can only see a avg of 25- 35 FPS, if I have remembered the fact right. So 60 FPS is not needed that much :)

Depth of Field will zoom the camera out more so you can see more. Doesn't affect FPS by that much.

The big ones you may want to turn off/ turn down for a smooth performance are Anti-aliasing, Shadow quality, Texture Memory , Bloom , Camera blur,Local reflections and Dynamic lighting. I cant tell you what you need on and off for a smooth performance but you will just need to play around with the big ones till you get the performance and looks you want.

Edited November 16, 2013 by Rathie

[Meenmu]

You can google most of these things. Or you can try toggling them on and off and seeing what effects that has in-game.

[Deservate]

4 GB of RAM, 1 GB of video RAM, 1366x768 resolution.

Edited November 16, 2013 by Deservate

[Loseca]

This should help you. (Its a long post explaining every setting) Edited November 16, 2013 by 1ord3nz0

[Sidathe]

Runtime Tesselation affects plant-y stuff, I think. Lets 'em move and whatnot.

 

Depth of Field simulates (Not very well) visual depth. By making things behind a certain point really blurry. I find games don't do this so well, nor do they do Motion Blur well, but I'm figuring it's because...well, different people have different visual needs/issues/whatever.

[Deservate]

This should help you. (Its a long post explaining every setting)

This is what I was looking for. Perfect, thanks