

This affects the visual pizzazz and animation frame rate of enemy abilities. Like the Visual Effects and Monster Effects settings, this has no meaningful bearing on performance, so you can leave those veggies burning. Yet another setting where lowering from the highest quality makes no difference to performance. What’s more, dropping from Very High somehow lowered performance slightly, with the High setting averaging 110fps and Low 109fps.

Having some form of AA is especially important when you can’t go higher than 1080p. Leave this on High, as the only other setting – Low – didn’t improve performance at all. Turning it off produced an 111fps average, so there’s no sense losing the added effects. Lowering from Very High to High improved performance by 30%, so while the visual difference is noticeable – shadows become more pixelated, and are removed from certain environmental details like grass – it’s a prime setting to cut if you just want more frames.Īgain, you can leave this on. Conversely, this is the single biggest hitter of the bunch.
