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KHS12

Hi everyone.
Out of curiosity, what graphics do you play on?

Yelleb

These are mine. I play on an average laptop that definitely is not suited for gaming, but it's all that I can currently afford. Maybe one day I'll get to experience the super cool lighting!

Livinity

Custom. I have a old pc, so I need to ditch some settings. I set Edge Smoothig to low because personally, I don't see much improvement. Uncompressed textures also have a minor impact as far as I can tell.

What I like to set on high and imo makes a lot of difference: sims, objects, reflections if you're playing with lots of water nearby. Visual effects are on high just because I like playing with vampires haha Lightning also makes a big difference, but it's the most demanding for the graphic card afaik. I set mine to medium.

Simpkin

ultra

icmnfrsh

Ultra. Also with uncompressed textures and postprocessing effects. And V-sync because IIRC, there's some noticeable tearing when I adjust the camera sometimes.

alan650111

ultra

Firande

I have most settings on medium, except for view distance (high). Works well enough for me, I'm still amazed by apartment views for one. But I would have loved to have ultra settings, too bad my average non-gaming laptop would NEVER be able to handle that. :/

OEII1001

Ultra. Game is very well optimized. My card's fan never spins up, even with other applications running.

Le0Heart

Everything on low besides view distance. My view distance is on high

SimplyJen

I'm spoiled.. must have ultra settings with any game I play.

So_Money

OEII1001 wrote: »

Ultra. Game is very well optimized. My card's fan never spins up, even with other applications running.

Anyway, mine is on Ultra with post-processing off because I can't stand depth-of-field.

MrMonty96

It seems that everyone is on the extreme ends of the spectrum, low or high. I'm somewhere in the middle but I'm playing on an old laptop.

BabySquare

Everything on medium except 3D scene resolution and view distance which are on high.
Post processing effects on, uncompressed sim textures off, vertical sync off.



Can someone please explain to me what 3D scene resolution is? I read the in-game description but am none the wiser.

Nindigo

I'm on Ultra as well.

BabySquare wrote: »

Can someone please explain to me what 3D scene resolution is? I read the in-game description but am none the wiser.

If you mouse over the text, it explains that it is 'object resolution' - the visual quality of objects.

BabySquare

Nindigo wrote: »

the visual quality of objects.

Thanks!

poltergeist

tbh i don't really know which ones make a difference.
my laptop originally put it on ultra settings too as if it was fine for me to play that way, but i don't know anything about computers and i'm always just paranoid about breaking this one so i lowered some settings that seemed pointless to me. (lighting, reflections, visual effects)
post processing is a bit ugly and i have no idea what uncompressed textures does.

UnrealRoot

Ultra and high if my computer is having a bad day.

GoldenBuffy

Ultra

BabySquare

I have a question:

How much more demand does it place on a computer if, for example you change all the effects from low to ultra?
I appreciate it might be an odd question, but from one extreme to the other I'm curious to know how much harder a computer would be working.

Livinity

@BabySquare I don't really know, but for sure it demands more from the system. Some computers don't even feel it, others can struggle. My default settings when I install the game is Ultra, but my pc can't handle and I get freaking blue screens all the time. It's odd because it doesn't really lag that much so go figure. I'm afraid of overloading my graphic card, I want it to last...forever haha

Writin_Reg

Simasaurus09 wrote: »

I'm spoiled.. must have ultra settings with any game I play.

I have everything exactly the same as Simasaurus.

BabySquare

Livinity wrote: »

@BabySquare I don't really know, but for sure it demands more from the system. Some computers don't even feel it, others can struggle. My default settings when I install the game is Ultra, but my pc can't handle and I get freaking blue screens all the time. It's odd because it doesn't really lag that much so go figure. I'm afraid of overloading my graphic card, I want it to last...forever haha

I see.
My default settings are all medium. I tested out each thing one at a time on high/ultra and I didn't notice much if any visual difference except for the newish lighting on ultra; tested that in the houses for my favourite families and it's not worth it due to the placement/type of windows barely casting any light across the floor inside.
I like having view distance on high as it looks more like real life, seeing as how I've never noticed a blue void around my neighbourhood, but I might now test out lowering the scene resolution back to medium.
Asked out of curiosity. Thanks for the reply.

DeKay

BabySquare wrote: »

I have a question:

How much more demand does it place on a computer if, for example you change all the effects from low to ultra?
I appreciate it might be an odd question, but from one extreme to the other I'm curious to know how much harder a computer would be working.

It will be a lot (big difference). Especially when you had laptop mode on to off.

DeKay

My settings are custom but it's pretty much Ultra but with reflections and visual effects set to Medium cuz I don't think they look that different if set on high anyways.

WinterKhirin

everything on high but lighting is very high on the laptop... everything on ultra on the desktop.

ladybreid

Ultra here but I believe I have post proc. off. I can't remember and I'm not in game atm