explain ingame settings

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It depends on the game. Some let you change everything ("Custom" setting) in game, some via config file and then a mixture of both. Really poor ports sometimes just offer several preset levels. It really depends, there is no convention
 
Not many people actually understand game settings, and like people have said even if you know what they mean it doesn't mean that's what it will do. Most games do things differently and one setting in one game may have the same name but do different things.
 
While you can certainly google the settings and get a more detailed answer to your questions, but here's a quick rundown:
Anisotropic filtering makes distant textures look clearer and costs very little performance.
Anti aliasing smiths jagged edges that are caused by low polygon counts, but costs a lot of performance. Worth adding on after you tune the other settings.
Texture quality: Always as high as possible because it has a big impact on looks.
Mesh/terrain quality: Also as high as possible
Shadows: Often a big performance hit at higher levels, so a good one to cut if struggling for performance.

Those are the big ones. Hope that helps.
 
So you wanted us to explain every setting in games to save you time which would waste our time. They're not exactly hard to understand are they? Games have presets for people who don't know and can't be bothered to find out for themselves what each setting means in terms of image quality.
 
Tbh, I think his question is reasonable, and it's gone a bit GD in here if people are just going to send him off to google.
 
i think i should have re worded the the question, yeh and i do know my spelling sucks didn't get my chance at school has you guys did so sorry about that .

basically i just wanted to quickly know what the main setting did, how they effect the game and gpu.

what settings i would need to turn down at ultra to high to low etc.

yeh and of course i could have easily found the answers but i wanted to talk about it inmore depth here at at least we had something to talk about.


reason i asked was ive almost finished my sig rig system just got few mods to do on the case and im done.

i was going to buy some games but wasn't too sure about in game setting and whether i should use ultra, high but nvm i guess il just try each and see what fps i get.


sorry if have offended anyone
 
Closing thread.

Some of you should be ashamed of yourselves tbh..

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edit - thank you to Devrij for posting a sensible answer.
 
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