M2033 Tess and DOF useless?

Is there any point in using these two features? They drag 50-60 FPS down to 30-40 yest all DOF does is make everything thats not 5 metres away really blurry. And Tesselation doesnt seem worth the frame decrease. Thoughts?

Never worth it. To prove your point, I play in DX9, everything else maxed at 1929x1200. Game looks amazing. I don't even bother with TESS and DOF. I've messed with different combinations of video settings and I cannot tell the difference. Honestly, I can't. I only way would be to take still images and even then, you would have to squint and look pretty hard to find the "improvements." I use that word very loosely. :PElann2008

Only part I noticed a difference was the scene when hunter comes in at the very beginning.

Only part I noticed a difference was the scene when hunter comes in at the very beginning.

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DX 11 should offer tesslation and better lighting is certain scenes. DX10 should offer object motion blur(which is REALLY hard to see if you have a low frame rrate.)