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I’ve just upgraded my graphics card from a 5900XT to a 6800GT, and as a result have been able to update my quality and image size settings quite a bit.
Originally I had most effects etc turned down low, and ran at 800×600. This gave me a very playable framerate on the 5900XT.
However, now I can run with everything on medium/high and at 1024×768, and am pretty stunned by the quality difference. Some of the levels look completely different with dynamic lighting, shadows etc all turned on, and it almost feels like I’m playing a different game.
So now I’m thinking that if I turn all the effects down again (just keeping the higher res), I’ll get fantastic framerate at the expense of graphical gorgeousness.
So, what’s your choice?
I kinda like seeing the game as the developer intended so am willing to sacrifice a bit of fps for the graphical gorgeousness.
@Wipers wrote:
I kinda like seeing the game as the developer intended so am willing to sacrifice a bit of fps for the graphical gorgeousness.
Me too! 😉
Graphical beauty is the way to go. OR at least then I can say my FPS is crap and that’s why I play crap
I’ve got an old 6600 card, which’ll let me play 2142 on ‘medium’ settings at 1024×768 with AA on. The game still looks ‘pretty’, but it has a lot of trouble on the titan maps. So much that I often can’t fight onboard a titan due to the frame rate dropping to something like 10 or 12.
Roll on a nice ‘new’ 1950XT (when I’ve got some money).
Definately framerate over beauty. I’m fortunate enough these days (for the first time ever) to run games at top gfx settings and still have a decent framerate, but even though games do look wonderful, the moment I find my framerate suffering the settings will be adjusted down. I’d rather see a few ugly kills, than alot of gorgeous deaths.
Ive got in to buying external things for my computer, as I am bored of upgrading all the time. So therfore – frame rate over beaurty… as I am beautiful enough already!
@Alzir wrote:
Definately framerate over beauty. I’m fortunate enough these days (for the first time ever) to run games at top gfx settings and still have a decent framerate, but even though games do look wonderful, the moment I find my framerate suffering the settings will be adjusted down. I’d rather see a few ugly kills, than alot of gorgeous deaths.
agreed, performance over graphics. a higher frame rate will improve a multiplayer gaming experience far more than graphcs.
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