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Heartborne
06-17-2008, 02:27 AM
Is it just me or do the "recommended" settings that games give you often completely retarded?

For example, I burned out my old 6800 GT because Medeival Total War II felt that it should be played at high settings on said card and I was too excited about the idea to argue the point.

Furthermore, Why does F.E.A.R. want me to play at medium high settings when I still get an average of 99 fps with all the settings turned to maximum? Why does Portal think I should be playing with dumbed down settings when maxing them out does not sacrifice playabilty even by a small degree?

Why does no game "recommend" I turn on the AA although every game I play runs fine with AA maxed out?

These recommendations are totally wonky and make no bloody sense. Anyone care to enlighten me?

saphalline
06-17-2008, 02:45 PM
That's a caps bits (http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showpost.php?p=375113&postcount=11) polling problem.

In any case, it's best to adjust everything manually. (This should be a computer mantra!) From picking out your own components to BIOS settings to OS choice to driver installs/updates to graphical settings to conf files, etc...

Heartborne
06-17-2008, 07:58 PM
Very informative, Saph! Thanks!

randomuser83
07-02-2008, 03:29 PM
Just to add, most of the time the recommended settings are basing off the weakest link in your pc. So for example, lets say you have the perfect PC down to the last detail but you only have 1 GB of RAM currently. The game will base your recommended settings off that so you will get an "off" result. This is what I have seen from personal gaming experience and always building my own systems a piece at a time.

Rick
07-03-2008, 12:48 AM
I agree with the weak point idea

What is another cause of this?

The games not seeing or using the quad core !!
recommend mid settings with a 2.4 ghz
and High for a 3.0

saphalline
07-04-2008, 12:03 AM
The CPU polling issue falls completely on programs! DirectX is not at fault there since its only concern is polling for DirectX components - DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound, etc. Any program can poll for the CPU ID string!!

I have noticed many programs that should know about all the new CPU microarchitectures that don't, however! Why any program or app or game released in 2007 would not properly handle Core or K8 is beyond me!! :mad: