Quick Settings question

[stevee620]

Hello all,
I just bought this game and installed it. Does this game auto detect your system and adjust the graphic detail? I noticed they seemed to be set rather modestly. I don't want to set it to high, then have to reduce it when i get into more intense situations. My specs are:

Intel Core i5-4690K
Running at 4.4Ghz
8Gb DDR3 SDRAM
EVGA e-GeForce GTX 970 4 GB GDDR5 SDRAM
250GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO
1TB HDD
Microsoft Windows 8.1 (x64)

Thank you
Stephen.

[Alan Phipps]

It does not autodetect in every precise detail but the OS and graphics card driver will pass it some general settings and system capability info.

The short answer is to set it at a level of performance and detail that you initially feel quite comfortable with and adjust it if and when you run into problems or it shows by coping well in stressful situations that there is probably potential for even better. There is no additional penalty for changing settings later on in the game so why worry so much at the start?

Some options (such as VSync) usually have far greater single-option impacts than others, so experiment in your game, OS and device control panels options. I would say that you should be getting a pretty good play experience in almost all game situations with your system at reasonably high settings.

Two things I would say is firstly to let your graphics card do as much work as possible rather than let the cpu cores have to do too much graphics pre-processing as well as running the game code threads. Secondly, use complementary native system settings throughout the graphics chain (game - OS - card driver - monitor) wherever possible.

[stevee620]

Two things I would say is firstly to let your graphics card do as much work as possible rather than let the cpu cores have to do too much graphics pre-processing as well as running the game code threads. Secondly, use complementary native system settings throughout the graphics chain (game - OS - card driver - monitor) wherever possible.

Thanks for the advice Alan, much appreciated. I don't really know how to let my graphics card do as much work as possible though. Are there some settings that i could apply to this game in my nvidia control panel, is that what you mean?
Stephen.

[Alan Phipps]

Well you can force some settings on the card (in its control panel as you say) regardless (or instead) of what you can set in-game. That is not normally a recommended policy (let the application decide is the card driver's usual default), but it can be used for fine tweaking of graphics performance if it really matters to you.

I think you may be worrying overly though. If you think the in-game settings seem low then crank them up and see what happens ...

[stevee620]

Think you're right Alan, i'll see how i get on with the default "High" settings. Thanks for your help.
Stephen.