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Weird performance behavior on a low-end system
Bucic Offline
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Question  Weird performance behavior on a low-end system

Mobility Radeon HD3650, 1680x1050 native resolution, Catalyst 13.1
8 GB RAM
C2D 2.5 GHz
Linux

Consider this:
Preset 1:
SSAO: minimum
Shadows: medium/medium
Posteffects, Smoothing, Vsync: disabled
All other: enabled or high

Preset 2:
SSAO: disabled
Shadows: disabled
Posteffects, Smoothing, Vsync: disabled
All other: disabled or lowest

(1) Now, the difference between performance for the two presets is not noticeable. I bet it wouldn't be noticeable either if I added some post effects to the Preset 1 Dodgy

(2) Also, in the corridors (small rooms) I get ~20-25 FPS while in big rooms with lots of lights I get mere ~10 FPS.

Any thoughts on that? How is (1) possible? Can the cause of (2) be slightly eased by fiddling with config files?

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09-11-2013, 10:34 PM
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RE: Weird performance behavior on a low-end system

Can only recommend to play with lower resolution, the computer is below the minimum requierments, in particular the graphics card.
09-11-2013, 10:42 PM
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RE: Weird performance behavior on a low-end system

I know. I don't expect much here. I started the topic more for academics. TBH, I've never seen a game to perform equally on minimum vs on med-high settings. It's kind of weird to enable one, two, five and so on effects without observing a slightest performance drop.

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(This post was last modified: 09-11-2013, 10:47 PM by Bucic.)
09-11-2013, 10:46 PM
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