Oh, I thread I can contribute to!
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This is the best my current pc can do. Almost playable at 20ish fps.
That actually still looks pretty good.
All this reminds me of that horrible wave effect they have near water sources.
I played Ryse on my laptop, it has a cool cell shading look on low settings I was surprised
This is how I played through most of The Witcher
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Everything set as low as possible or turned off, resolution 1366x768, ran mostly at 20 - 30 fps, sometimes lower, on a Thinkpad 220 (integrated intel 3000 graphics).
This is what made me decide to build a gaming PC, where the same scene looks like this.
Rise of the Tomb Raider
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And a bonus faceshot:
http://abload.de/img/wow-64_2016_02_16_15_rzy2y.png
http://abload.de/img/wow-64_2016_02_16_15_stbpm.png
Tomb Raider: Underworld for comparison.
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"hey, you wanna buy some ancient artifacts?"![]()
oh my god
DiRT Rally
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The driver disappears and the wheel doesn't move on lowest settings:
Aside from the jaggies, Black Ops III and GTAV both manage to stay pretty good looking.
Lets make a ugly game even more ugly:
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Yikes:
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This thread makes me think that if devs were willing to go the extra mile, they could make it so low and medium settings would have a carefully planned aesthetic instead of just being worse looking versions of the highest quality settings.
So imagine that setting a game to low quality would actually make it look like a good looking PS2 game, medium a PS3 game, high is PS4 settings and then have ultra be the one that takes advantage of good rigs.
Of course that would only work for the global quality scale, the games would still have individual options of course.
The integrated graphics are actually pretty capable, had to use it when my 970 broke, could play GW2 on mixed medium settings without too much trouble.Maybe someday I should disable my GTX 970 and see how much performance I can squeeze out by running everything on low on Intel integrated...
You mean something like this alternate low-poly style for TF2 being a toggle in the options menu?
I honestly would like that. Back with my old PC a setting like that would have been a godsend.