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[Burke IV]

How do you set gfx to minimum but keep the longest possible view distance?

[Aegic]

www.hwcompare.com

Is a good tool when comparing the relative power of video cards.

[Burke IV]

Op you will find there are invisable terrain problems at minimum settings. You may find yourself shooting a mech that you think you have line of sight on but actually dont. If you find your shots doing no dmg it may be this

I also like thottle decay. I turned it off for a bit but changed my mind.

[Bront]

Panpiper, on 07 December 2013 - 09:28 AM, said:

Wow! Thank you for that. I have of course been perusing graphics cards and just yesterday was ranting about how I could make no sense of the cryptic code used to differentiate cards. I am saving that in a document for future reference. :-)

Tomshardware has some good "Best card for your money" articles it publishes every month (example here), and at the end, there's a nice chart on expected performance.

I would recommend sticking with nVidia at the moment. Most folks I know who have issues with MWO had AMD cards, and their drivers have always been a little suspect.

[Koniving]

Burke IV, on 07 December 2013 - 11:58 AM, said:

How do you set gfx to minimum but keep the longest possible view distance?

Raise "Environment" detail for longest terrain view distance. This causes all worldly details to go up a bit though.

Raise "Objects" to have mechs render in more detail at longer range, allowing you to see them farther away. Causes mech details (the most taxing of all) to go up.