All settings standard, including shadows on standard --> normal FPS
All settings standard, except shadows, shadows on lowest --> max 15 FPS
Shadows on lowest should give FPS increase, not major decrease.
Description
Description
Details
Details
- Legacy ID
- 3567478847
- Severity
- Tweak
- Resolution
- Not Fixable
- Reproducibility
- Always
- Category
- Game Settings
Steps To Reproduce
- Set all settings to 'standard'
- Set shadows to 'low'
- Apply settings
Additional Information
Core i7 2600K
16Gb DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
Nvidia GTX 260 Core 216 in SLI
Event Timeline
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I have the same result. I was horrified at the performance until I tried increasing the shadow setting, then things started to become playable.
i5 2500K 3.3GHz
4GB DDR3
Nvidia 9800GTX+ 512MB (driver version 306.23, quite old now)
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I guess lower settings put more things on your CPU while higher settings put them on your GPU.
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I have the same result.
i5 3350P
4GB 1066 DDR3
GTS 250 1GB 9.18.13.697(old drivers-Oct.3/2012)
W7 64bit
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Shadows on low causes shadow rendering to become more CPU intensive than GPU intensive. While this may cause an unexpected performance impact, it is not a bug.