opinion question on performance

[leedog2007]

In you alls opinions, which is better? cranking up the resolution, or adding eye candy?

 

[BlueWeasel]

If I had to choose one or the other, it's resolution...hands down.

 

[leedog2007]

why?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: leedog2007
why?

Well, for me, performance always takes a priority over looks. I usually always disable eye candy like shadows, coronas, etc. to get a higher framerate.

Many of the newer games still pretty good to me even with minimal settings and no eye candy.

 

[Pete]

Higher framerate seems tangential (at best) to higher res or more eye candy, both of which pertain to looks.

leedog, when you say eye candy, do you mean in-game settings (texture res, model quality, shaders, bloom, HDR, etc.) or AA+AF?

 

[bendixG15]

Windows GUI is eye candy

If you want to dump eye candy...go to DOS