What settings give the biggest performance impact?

**test12345** · May 12, 2006, 10:08 PM

besides AA...anything especially bad?

how bad are unit shaders/shadows/hi quality shadows?

**Publius** · May 12, 2006, 10:14 PM

I think there have been threads like this already. To answer your question, grass is often the biggest fps killer for me. That and obviously unit size

**LiciniusII** · May 12, 2006, 10:17 PM

Just use auto detect, then disable AA (which is what I always do) then get rid of stuff like buildings and grass as well

edit: unless u have a supercomputer, then maybe just leave the AA on

**test12345** · May 12, 2006, 11:54 PM

anyone else?

**Legionary Jezza** · May 12, 2006, 11:59 PM

Well i think it is just unit size and grass.

**Cayo_Julio_Cesar** · May 13, 2006, 01:05 AM

shadows are the nemesis of my pc, specially high quality.

**Locky** · May 13, 2006, 05:24 AM

The shadows are shocking anyway. I would turn them off even if i had a beast of a computer. Some settings hurt the CPU more then the graphics card.

**test12345** · May 13, 2006, 08:49 AM

how can i completely turn them off? i dont want that black circle if the shadows are all off...

what are shaders vs shadows?

**dearmad** · May 13, 2006, 09:50 AM

Using a 7800, the only thing that hits it at all (disproportionately) is the building details. I drop those to low or medium. Something about buildings just chokes the video. Nothing else dramatically affects the fps for me. Of course more and more units does, but in the way you would expect...

Double posts merged/Prox

Originally Posted by Locky

The shadows are shocking anyway. I would turn them off even if i had a beast of a computer. Some settings hurt the CPU more then the graphics card.

Nah... on my beast of a computer the detailed shadows are crap, sure... but the low detail ones look better than no shadows, IMO. Anchors units to the ground.