How do you choose your graphics settings for each game?

Goose · 2 Feb 2014 at 18:56

I'm going to be buying 280X as soon as one comes on offer again and in the meantime I thought i'd find out how you guys determine your settings from one game to another.

If we decide that our process will be to set everything to Ultra and then start scaling things back until we reach an acceptable FPS average which settings do we look to alter and why?

Thanks

p.s Sorry if this should be in the gaming forum

old gamer · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:03

yep i bang the settings on max and see how it goes, the only setting i ever need to drop is aa but as im using 1400p its no big deal

Mr Badger · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:34

I let NVIDIA GeForce Experience optimise the settings. Is there anything similar for AMD?

mhvcbv · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:41

http://raptr.com/amd

arc@css · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:41

Set almost everything to maximum (I don't like motion blur much), and if I need to drop something down it'll nearly always only be AA. There are rare circumstances where a demanding mod like Misery 2.1 required me to turn off SSAO / reduce shadow quality (damn x-ray engine).

varkanoid · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:47

set everthing to max or ultra and if it doesnt play fine its time for an upgrade

saving that only one I touch is AA

chaparral · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:57

I just Set everything to max apart from the AA settings and then work down from there

Plus every game and every person is different for what settings you want to change..

Kaapstad · 2 Feb 2014 at 22:26

Everything maxed @1600p

PhysicsMan94 · 2 Feb 2014 at 22:27

Kaapstad said:
Everything maxed @1600p

Show off

But, yeah, I set everything to max at 1440p (except for AA on titles like Crysis 3).

Tonester0011 · 2 Feb 2014 at 22:28

FPS games instantly go to lowered settings. All the other games are low/medium.

Yaayuh! · 2 Feb 2014 at 22:31

Max except FXAA and bloom effects, they annoy me.

thefogo · 2 Feb 2014 at 22:57

Max except for AA and blur effects.

wazza300 · 2 Feb 2014 at 22:59

adjust settings till it runs smooth in a few games not many

on my 7850 but mostly on max

7970 set to max settings apart from aa again depends on game,some I can max aa without any slowdown

Finners · 2 Feb 2014 at 23:06

Turn off motion blur and depth of field and enable MSAA.

Set everything else to high and lower what's needed to achieve 60fps minimum

Stas823 · 3 Feb 2014 at 00:54

Finners said:
Turn off motion blur and depth of field and enable MSAA.

Set everything else to high and lower what's needed to achieve 60fps minimum

this, but i also turn off shadows ( i just plain dont like them)

PaulyD · 3 Feb 2014 at 03:42

Set everything max. Turn motion blur off and play. If have to lower AA first but generally don't have to

Lance9394 · 3 Feb 2014 at 06:24

I play everything on ultra with my card, coz if I want to play games with sub standard quality I would buy a console, I'm sure your 280x can cope ultra mode, I'm using the 290

Sgt_Pepper · 3 Feb 2014 at 07:33

Singleplayer Max

Multiplayer Low

That's as complicated as it gets for me.

Puppetmaster · 3 Feb 2014 at 07:42

When I had my 6970's I used to set things normally at high without much AA. Coped with most things with decent frame rate that way.

Now with 290's it tends to be just slam it at max, at least if it supports crossfire

Even one card is crazy fast compared to my old setup.

Uncle_Gravy · 3 Feb 2014 at 08:26

I let Geforce Experience deal with it, except for BF4 and DayZ, I bump the settings down for them, rather smooth running than eye candy for those games.