His head is too round, that shit is hard to render. So many fucking polygons.

>>332166434
Its early access what did you expect

I can run TW3 on Ultra with a 970 and it looks much better

>>332166434

>Set shadows down to medium
>60fps on a 970 at almost all times.

>>332167356
Why the fuck are shadows always the biggest fucking resource hog for what's effectively the LEAST likely thing you'll see when focusing on the game?

Yeah it can look pretty but most of the time you aren't going to notice it.

>>332167356
>>332167286
does everyone here use a 970?
i have one too, bought it back when it was the best card for the price, still don't regret it because it runs the games I play

>>332167459

>Why the fuck are shadows always the biggest fucking resource hog for what's effectively the LEAST likely thing you'll see when focusing on the game?

Because of the math that processors are crunching to produce the shadows dynamically off every object. The best part about Hitman is they do both Dynamic and Baked shadows so if you drop "Shadow" quality to medium but keep "Shadow Maps" to High you will barely even notice the dynamic shadow resolution drop.

The best shadows are when you don't notice them. Trust me you remove shadows you'll be fucking amazed at how terrible games look.

>>332167459
Rendering all objects, calculating their position, the lighting position and then the AA.
I guess that is the reason. I agree with you though. It's the first I always lower.

>>332167634
Yes. TW3 without HBAO+ looks like a cartoon.

>>332167634
I'm not saying all shadows need to be removed, I've seen what it looks like, but so many developers seem to be just trying to use dynamic shadows out the ass.

>>332167740

Because pre-baked shadows are so limited.

>>332167735

Yea even the SSAO method for TW3 looks like garbage.

>>332166434
i3 6100
16gb RAM
GTX 960 4GB

Turning off ambient oclusion ensured I get 50-60 FPS.
Other settings are lowered, but the game looks practically the same maxed out and with all lowered.

Games are getting so much more demanding by the year and they don't even look that good.

Mirror's edge runs on a fucking toaster with maxed settings and it looks amazing.

Granted it's basically a corridor first person runner but it's still much more visually impressive than most games nowadays.

>>332167817
So you only need to re-heat those in the microwave and it's good?

>>332168149
Mirror's Edge doesn't try to imitate real life.

>>332166434
>game sets everything to low
>runs fine
>turn off everything to max
>runs like shit
>looks the same

>>332168271
Neither do any of the current games

>>332167459
GTAV's shadows seem to have no impact on performance at all for me, even with the fancy settings turned on.

Although the game looks pretty, its mostly shitty optimization. Look at MGSV, it runs on most toasters while still looking good enough.

>>332167194
It's "platform"

>>332167286
But TW3 looked like ass

>>332166434
then why i can get 60fps with 2560x1080?

>>332167194
in your fucking dreams
this is the finished product and it wont be improved upon
theyll continue to shovel out "episodes" with the same kind of performance

>>332167618
It's one of the best performance for the price cards ever. Fuck tons of people have them because of it.

>>332168526

Yes goy you need to buy the latest hardware to run this game with decent settings.