The unnecessary gaming graphics settings you should sacrifice
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Why is my computer slow?! Seven settings to speed up your gaming PC
If you want better performance in the latest triple-A title you need to get creative with your game's graphics settings
Great article! Gives charts showing increases in frames-per-second for settings.
NOTE Ignore the screenshot differences. They are not representative of actual changes. Changing Shadows settings doesn't make the resulting image look all washed out-brightness-overkill! -(
Personally, I set most of my graphic card's utility program to "Use application settings" and then set the games' settings separately to Medium-High.
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@angel-rugal said in The unnecessary gaming graphics settings you should sacrifice:
ah i remember the times when i had to tweak graphics and get into the .ini of games
meeemorieeees
In Skyrim it's a challenge hahaha
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@el-espectro-0 i usedto play skyrim with around 70 mods at any time, avoiding crashes was part of the fun!
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@angel-rugal said in The unnecessary gaming graphics settings you should sacrifice:
ah i remember the times when i had to tweak graphics and get into the .ini of games
meeemorieeees
I'll have to play "Can You Top This" here! I remember having to allocate irq, dma, page file, etc. in Batch and Config.sys files to get my 286DX programs to run. I had to buy a 486DX2-66 just to get Wing Commander to run! LOL
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@dolnornumbwit you win :P, my first pc was a 386, i was still using an atari 2600 at that time that was my mom's
i'm talking about 25-ish years ago maybe, i was a kid
pagefile sizes were so weird, it's like no one had a correct answer on how to set it
"kids now have it so easy with their nvidia experience and windows 10 and all that automatic s**t, we used glue guns and manual wiring to even get our front ends to work!"
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@dolnornumbwit ah the 286DX & 486DX2-66 from Commander Keen to Wing Commander haha
I showed my young nephews Doom over Christmas and tried to explain the significance of it and how this was the first fps as they know today, it held their briefest of attentions before they thought the graphics were rubbish...
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@angel-rugal said in [The unnecessary gaming graphics settings you should sacrifice](/forum/post/
"kids now have it so easy with their nvidia experience and windows 10 and all that automatic s**t, we used glue guns and manual wiring to even get our front ends to work!"
Ain’t that the truth? These kids complain when their frame rate drops below 60 fps. I grew up on the 2600, then the NES sometime around 1987 or so. They’ll never understand having to blow on cartridges to get them to work, or putting paper in between the game and the lid so that it sat in there properly.
My first computer was an Apple IIe with the green screen, and no real games that used graphics. They were all text-based. I didn’t get to play “live action” games until the first Macintoshes came out. First computer (that I remember) with a mouse, and it only have one button. Revolutionary!
Ahh, nostalgia....
Why is my computer slow?! Seven settings to speed up your gaming PC
