Shadows! The laggiest thing i know

**Nobunuga oda** · November 22, 2006, 03:25 PM

During my time playing Med2 the Lag was really annoying, i never experienced such a laggy game, then i decided to turn down my graphics settings and nothing worked until i turned shadows off. VIOLA! The game was running lag free. But I thought to myself, why were shadows the big lag bringer, it never does this on any of my other games including rome.

Why are shadows one of the main causes of game lag?

**Aristocrat** · November 22, 2006, 04:07 PM

Thread Moved to Technical Help.

**crashxdjp** · November 22, 2006, 05:21 PM

Same here, i hope its a bug and will be fixed.

**Mr_Cyberpunk** · November 22, 2006, 05:32 PM

At least they've improved the graphical quality of them in the Full version.

But yeah they are a huge slow down, and I wish they were Soft shadows - though that'd be more laggier in the end

Best have them turned off unless you've got them on Extreme.

**henry v1** · November 22, 2006, 06:21 PM

dont think any single card out can run mtw2 with everything maxed and full shadows etc

maybe sli cards and the 8800 gts/x will piss it but single is ????

**ProudNerd** · November 23, 2006, 08:49 AM

because with complex shadows thye have to move they aroudn and ragdoll thme like the actuly troops so its basicly dealing wiht twice as many you need a beefy processor to run with shadows. Softshdows and FSAA in FEAR destroy fps too.