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Game Tuning Guide

Tickling additional fps from a game is basically not too difficult an undertaking. Especially in the graphics limit, it is often enough to reduce a few typical options in order to loosen a whole chunk of performance without major visual losses. But this is only a side issue in this article. In fact, we want to show you why and why some specific graphics options are mostly among the usual suspects. In order to accomplish this, we have selected four of the currently most popular titles. These are not the most spectacular candidates to let the fps shoot up to unimagined heights by reducing some selected options, but these titles are still well suited for our project.

First and foremost, we want to show how the technology works in current games and help you to understand the individual graphics options – because then you can make your own observations and lend an expert hand with the settings. We also want to get rid of some partially outdated wisdom. Anti-aliasing is expensive and optional? That is no longer true in the age of temporal calculations. Textures are free as long as memory lasts? This assumption is no longer really correct either. We start with Fortnite, the popular free-to-play title based on the also widely used Unreal Engine 4.



Apex Legends (Direct X 11)

The free-to-play contribution from Electronic Arts is also interesting. Instead of the Frostbite engine usually used by EA studios, the online shooter from Respawn relies on a version of the 2004 Source engine, which was originally modernized for Titanfall and featured prominently in Valve’s Half-Life 2. Even if the developers have significantly modernized many aspects of the engine, such as using a deferred renderer and Direct X 11 and offering, for example, temporal anti-aliasing and some modern effects, there are some circumstances in Apex Legends relatively old school.











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The following games can be found in the practical article:

  • Apex Legends (Direct X 11)
  • CoD Warzone (Direct X 12)
  • Summary and Outlook






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