Visual Settings performance tips

[lowe0]

Originally Posted by Mr_Scary

Also Shattered Horizon is not in my 3D Settings in Nvidia Control Panel,
I wanted max it more, even though it looks great, I want it to look better.

This happens to me all the time with Steam games.

One thing I'd love for checking performance - a FPS indicator. I hate using FRAPS, as it always feels like it slows things down a bit.

[Skyy]

Does SSAO make a noticeable difference if you don't pay attention to whatever it exactly does?

I only ask because I had to turn it off to get smooth fps as I can only run the game on 1920x1080 due to a glitch with my RADEON HD4850

(Don't get it wrong it's a glitch I have in all games not just Shattered Horizon^^)

And yes, FRAPS is indeed a performance killer, I noticed it alot with Crysis

[Mr_Scary]

Originally Posted by lowe0

This happens to me all the time with Steam games.

One thing I'd love for checking performance - a FPS indicator. I hate using FRAPS, as it always feels like it slows things down a bit.

I use EVGA precision,
it has an overlay setting, but only works with Nvidia GPUs

[shspartan]

Thanks staffers for the info. Ambient occlusion rapes my 295 in certain areas. aa on 8 is suicide. 2-4 works well.

[DeathTurret]

Originally Posted by shspartan

Thanks staffers for the info. Ambient occlusion rapes my 295 in certain areas. aa on 8 is suicide. 2-4 works well.

Wow a game that rapes a 295?

I guess they are competeing with Arma in terms of most demanding specs for simple application.

[lowe0]

Originally Posted by shspartan

Thanks staffers for the info. Ambient occlusion rapes my 295 in certain areas. aa on 8 is suicide. 2-4 works well.

Weird... my pair of GTX 260s handles AO just fine, and a GTX 295 should be in that ballpark. What res are you running at?

[shspartan]

1680-1050, everything maxed, vsync off, aa on 2, ao off. this is 100% smooth. I could turn ao on, and get minor frame rate drops occasionally, but I'd rather not. I could also turn aa to 4, but I don't want to risk the possibility of going below 60 fps.

[Mr_Scary]

Thats because the GTX295 is limited to 896MB Vram

[Trep]

Any estimates on how much GPU ram is actually being used here?

[MadTom]

Originally Posted by lowe0

This happens to me all the time with Steam games.

One thing I'd love for checking performance - a FPS indicator. I hate using FRAPS, as it always feels like it slows things down a bit.

This feature is now implemented with the latest patch. Press F4 to activate/deactivate the on-screen FPS counter.

BTW, my below setup gives me around 35-60 FPS, with following settings:
RES: 1440x900
Textures: Max
Shaders and Shadows: Max (looks very bad if that is not cranked up, IMO)
AO: OFF
AA: OFF
VSYNC: OFF
Post-Processing: SPEED