Graphical settings for console games?

@04dcarraher: lmao are we talking about PS3/360 ?.. that happened the last year's of the consoles life cycle. The fact is currently there are very few settings set to low which is exactly What I stated.

Nothing I said was incorrect because I'm referring to current console's. Why would I be talking about hardware that's 10 years old?

Developers have a hard enough time trying to "optimize" their games on low-end years-old hardware. Having to add scalable graphics on CPU-bottlenecked systems for a small percentage that might potentially want it in certain situations isn't something they are going to be considering.

That was pretty funny :)

It's quite sad when people, in 2015, are talking about scaling graphics to 1080/30 or 720/60.

I actually had a similar choice for The Witcher 3, run the game on Ultra settings at 1440p and get 40ish fps or drop the res to 1080p and get 60ish fps.

@GarGx1: Whats sad? Do you want consoles with dual gpus?

We are nowhere near the point where Graphics can't be pushed farther. As long as people buy games based on screenshots and not gameplay demos, frame rates and resolutions will always be sacrificed.

You said console's, didn't specificity state the current ones. But as time goes on more and more settings and quality will be compromised.

wont it make the devs much harder to develop the game? just assuming, i dont know much about programming.

Why would dual GPU's be needed? The consoles don't come close to a decent single card.

@GarGx1: And no single GPU comes close to maxing witcher 3 at 1440p and 40fps.

I actually would really like this. Doesn't need to be sliders or a bunch of settings. Simply an option for reduced settings and 60 FPS, versus higher settings and 30 FPS. Why not?

You know this from?

I know it does because I can.

(Open in new tab or window, expand to full screen, the reason it doesn't fit on your screen is because they are 2k screenshots)

Do you want more screenshots, taken on my PC of the Witcher 3 running at 1440p and 40fps on Ultra? It's also running some SweetFX tweaks as well.

My specs are i7 4770k, GTX 780ti, 16Gb RAM, Asus Rog Swift

Choices would be

No AA, FXAA
Low shaders, Medium shaders
Low textures, Medium textures
720p, 792p (Xbone's exclusive dynamic resolution)
X2 AF, X8 AF

Would be funny because those choices are all crap

Is that with Hairworks enabled for all?

Also the parts in your screenshot are not exactly the most demanding.

@GarGx1: No hairworks , that's not max . Look at the benchmarks of a 780ti it gets raped once you turn on hairworks.

Yes Hairworks, for all, is enabled, did you even look at the screenshots. It's plainly obvious that it is

Internet benchmark rig - thrown together to run some figures off before changing card and going again

My rig, finely tuned and overclocked, by an engineer with 25 years experience of building and tuning PC's (me) to get the best performance I can from it.

Do you understand the difference?

I'll be honest, it does have dips into mid 30's on the other hand it has peaks in the high 40's as well. 40fps is more of an average.

Have another couple

@RyviusARC Where do you want screenshots from?

@GarGx1: Yes I did and hair works is hard to notice on humans in screenshots. I did however look at multiple 780ti benchmarks with it consistently dipping into the low 30s at 1080p with hair works off. So in not seeing how you are getting into the 40s in 1440p with it turned on.

Apparently, according to internet benchmarks, I can't get over 60fps in GTA V either maxed out as much as my RAM will allow at 1440p (AA switched off)