Yeah, gonna need to get a definition of "slow" on this one Faatal. MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X, 8GB VRAM. Total system usage on VRAM never really goes much above 6GB, so something's going on; turning off AF means the difference between 25 FPS and 60+. If you're considering the RX 580 as old, alright, but given they're still manufactured and sold retail, that probably shouldn't be the case.
That video shows a feature for blending objects that we don't even use.
Slow is relative. There are no hard and fast numbers. If a setting makes your game run slow, then turn it down. AF does not make much difference in most games, but from some reading I just did, it does make a difference in some games, if that is where the bottleneck is. Terrain pixels are doing about a dozen texture reads, so AF can have a much larger effect there than say a wall pixel that does a a few texture reads.
Gotcha, thanks. I need to do some more testing and I've been a bit lax on it, but I've noticed much worse performance since A18.1 final dropped (not currently on Experimental) when it comes to distant terrain. Been too busy actually playing to figure it out, so I mostly just angle the camera to avoid the frame drop.
The current system also promotes min/maxing imo, the important perks are mostly in Str and Fort, so Many people get those decently high early, str to 7 for miner 69'er/motherload, and shotgun is awesome in a18.2, fort is all about heavy armor, healing factor, and the Machine gun skill. The other perk lines IMO don't really offer anything i'd personally consider a must have. I like knives, but I can't really bother with agi, for just knives, as str/fort (a bit less than str though) has too many useful perks so I just go sledge or clubs.
I found a fix for this, Set Tree quality to high or better, and they'll stop appearing right when your 2 blocks away from it, it'll show up from a fairly large distance... Why its Tree Quality that effects this though is beyond me. But it does work to help reduce the pop-up.
Yeah Tree quality affects all LOD settings on blocks but also on zombies. I am not sure they can set this specifically for trees or not, but there are a lot of objects that have very poorly set LODs and even on high settings appear to pop in when you are really close (like the food piles, the new utility carts, tilt trucks etc).
there also that rocky look for some of the dirt, very confusing. e.g at 2:48
Nope. I know exactly what you are talking about. This is not it. Not when aproaching, they dissapear when twisting the head in the same axis independent of the distance (within reason). Some times I could not reproduce. It's the occluder.
