Performance improvement

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Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

Still at work so haven't played it yet, but reading what BlackSix wrote and some of naryv's posts on sukhoi.ru it seems to me that you will only see an FPS boost if you set the Effects slider to Medium. Is that right?

My understanding was that, in layman's terms, they re-wrote the effects engine and put it under the Medium option.

It's a bit more complex actually. What they did was make the effects settings have an impact on frame rates. Previously, even if you set effects to medium/low it would demand about the same resources as setting it on high, while now it works correctly (lowering it gives better FPS).

To clarify, it's not mandatory to lower your effects settings. It's just that now the effects settings have the expected impact on FPS if you lower them, which they didn't until recently.