10-02-2007, 10:46 AM
Quote:A little off-topic, but for people with video framerate issues, you may receive framerate benefit by checking the Level of Detail box. Typically people think that checking boxes = higher quality and lower performance, but in the case of LOD this is the opposite.
Level of Detail allows the game to use less precise geometry as objects are further from you. In static scenes it is virtually indistinguishable from normal rendering, but with motion the 'transition distances' where it switches rendering complexity can be very obvious and annoying to some people.
I just thought I'd mention it because the checkbox is counter-intuitive. People probably have this unchecked who really want it checked.
Wasn't there a bug in a recent patch where LOD was causing issues for some people? Was that ever fixed?