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Uncle Petey · 18 Nov 2013 at 02:03

Use a spoiler tag for the love of God, Humbug

Uncle Petey said:
I just tried it and it looked exactly the same at all terrain settings according to the screenshots I took.
They all looked exactly the same as the Ultra=low screenshots from the battlelog thread...

Ok, turns out I was being dumb and changing terrain quality instead of decoration

After sorting that out, I took some more pics with a frame counter and it turns out that medium terrain decorations are actually ultra... See for yourself below.
I still don't get those nice juicy leafed plants though. Perhaps that's a win8 thing for some reason?

Terrain decoration set to LOW

Terrain decoration set to MEDIUM

Terrain decoration set to HIGH

Terrain decoration set to ULTRA

Basically:

Low= High
Medium = Ultra
High = Medium
Ultra = Low

Make sense? Good

Makes you wonder what other settings are backwards...

pete910 · 18 Nov 2013 at 02:11

imginy said:
Anyone else crashing out a lot since patch?

Yes, It's unplayable because of it now. Given up tbh. Was one of the lucky ones that had a stable 290x in it. Dice have rendered it useless.

Been playing Metro:LL Damn good game/story I might add

thefogo · 18 Nov 2013 at 07:11

Uncle Petey said:
Use a spoiler tag for the love of God, Humbug

Ok, turns out I was being dumb and changing terrain quality instead of decoration

After sorting that out, I took some more pics with a frame counter and it turns out that medium terrain decorations are actually ultra... See for yourself below.
I still don't get those nice juicy leafed plants though. Perhaps that's a win8 thing for some reason?

Terrain decoration set to LOW

Terrain decoration set to MEDIUM

Terrain decoration set to HIGH

Terrain decoration set to ULTRA

Basically:

Low= High
Medium = Ultra
High = Medium
Ultra = Low

Make sense? Good

Makes you wonder what other settings are backwards...

I need to try this out, I've been running Ultra from day one.

Man-Meat · 18 Nov 2013 at 08:39

imginy said:
Anyone else crashing out a lot since patch?

Nope.

alex_123_fra · 18 Nov 2013 at 09:11

Not sure if this relates to the vegetation rendering mess up in the game, but since the patch, my average fps has been around 10 higher on the 7990 than previously. Haven't tested by reversing the relevant settings to low.

Man-Meat · 18 Nov 2013 at 09:30

Uncle Petey said:
Use a spoiler tag for the love of God, Humbug

Ok, turns out I was being dumb and changing terrain quality instead of decoration

After sorting that out, I took some more pics with a frame counter and it turns out that medium terrain decorations are actually ultra... See for yourself below.
I still don't get those nice juicy leafed plants though. Perhaps that's a win8 thing for some reason?

Terrain decoration set to LOW

Terrain decoration set to MEDIUM

Terrain decoration set to HIGH

Terrain decoration set to ULTRA

Basically:

Low= High
Medium = Ultra
High = Medium
Ultra = Low

Make sense? Good

Makes you wonder what other settings are backwards...

SAY WHAAAAAAAT?!

How strange.

Jono8 · 18 Nov 2013 at 10:17

I can confirm that medium terrain decoration is in fact ultra ( looks soooo much better, loads of grass, lots of moving bushes e.t.c)

Pics:

Set at Medium in graphics options:

Set at Ultra in graphics options

I also tried low and high and low (should be high) is like medium (ultra) but with not as many bushes and high (should be medium) is like ultra (or low) but with a bit more grass

Fortunately it doesn't impact framerates too much (from a quick glance I would say about 5%)

What a **** up

I wonder how many other settings have this problem!

uksoldierboy · 18 Nov 2013 at 10:26

Jono8 said:
I can confirm that medium terrain decoration is in fact ultra ( looks soooo much better, loads of grass, lots of moving bushes e.t.c)

I also tried low and high and low (should be high) is like medium (ultra) but with not as many bushes and high (should be medium) is like ultra (or low) but with a bit more grass

Fortunately it doesn't impact framerates too much (from a quick glance I would say about 5%)

What a **** up

I wonder how many other settings have this problem!

I tried reading the last paragraph of your post.. but tbh it hurt my head

Need coffee and i'll try again. lol

Jono8 · 18 Nov 2013 at 10:30

uksoldierboy said:
I tried reading the last paragraph of your post.. but tbh it hurt my head

Need coffee and i'll try again. lol

Ha, I tried my best

uksoldierboy · 18 Nov 2013 at 10:45

Well i just gave it a quick test,

:eek:

Seems like low is the new ultra even on windows 8.1!

Putting the settings from ultra to medium or low, resulted in the grass being far more widespread and better looking than when on ultra.

How could this happen? i know nothing about the ins and outs of game programming, but surely stuff like detail levels is the basics that you should be getting right? :confused:

or at least should have been picked up on well before release?

Jono8 · 18 Nov 2013 at 10:49

I found medium terrain decoration was better than low ( added some more bushes)

It doesn't work for all settings. Terrain quality for example (which I tried by accident at first rather than decoration) definitely looks worse on low ( real low res ground textures)

Hopefully it is just terrain decoration.

uksoldierboy · 18 Nov 2013 at 10:51

yeah medium was a little better than low for me too,

Such a stupid thing to get wrong though.

Jono8 · 18 Nov 2013 at 10:52

Yeh, very much a rookie mistake!

Dice should be better than that.

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 18 Nov 2013 at 10:55

I have enjoyed the bf games but this one is really testing my patience

Still crashing, unable to get more than one full game completed. How can a beta be more stable than final release?!

imginy · 18 Nov 2013 at 11:24

Jono8 said:
wow

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955064768159361567/1/

Going to test this out now

Mine is low on all settings

Where has my grass gone

CyberCrow · 18 Nov 2013 at 11:25

=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
I have enjoyed the bf games but this one is really testing my patience Still crashing, unable to get more than one full game completed. How can a beta be more stable than final release?!

You just answered your own question.." How can a beta be more stable than final release?"

We played two different revisions of the game, i read that the beta was 3-4 builds old :\ what they got wrong in between god knows

Gregster · 18 Nov 2013 at 11:49

Played for most of the morning with no issues. I don't expect it to last mind

(Expect the worst and anything else is a bonus)

wapows · 18 Nov 2013 at 11:55

Before the patch things were going fine.
After the patch i get frame rates of 50 with 2 Sli titans.
Someone said it might be a problem with my CPU which i think is true because before the patch my cpu was running at 40C but i had to adjust my cooler fans to a performance mode.

after the patch, my cpu was running at 30C, whilst gaming, and i didnt even have to change fan profiles.

i cant be bothered trying all these little fixes so not going to game for about a week or two and see if dice release something between now and then

Uncle Petey · 18 Nov 2013 at 11:56

alex_123_fra said:
Not sure if this relates to the vegetation rendering mess up in the game, but since the patch, my average fps has been around 10 higher on the 7990 than previously. Haven't tested by reversing the relevant settings to low.

I don't know if it's changed since the patch, but from the screenshots I took, you can see an 11 fps difference between low and ultra veg.

MyBrainz · 18 Nov 2013 at 12:09

LtMatt said:
Normally (but not always) indicates lack of vcore. Add a notch and see if it goes away.

My CPU? If so then no chance. Its a rock solid 4.5GHz

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