Are you playing at the highest levels? How are your graphics panel adjustments set?
Are you playing at the highest levels? How are your graphics panel adjustments set?
it seems High is the best sweet spot on most resolutions and i would not go below 1080p to keep High though if you need to low 1080p looks way better then say 720p high. Very High and Ultra Compared to High Can be VERY bottlenecking and little visual gain. This is such a use case scenario but if you had to generalize it thats what i would say. Some games the Ultra Setting its really only 1 or 2 Items that are taxing and putting Ultra and then High for those could be a nice middle ground. Also what moinitor or FPS you want matters 144hz I would go High and only Ultra if you really had some high end GPUS Right now im into pubg i play 2160p Scale 70% ( so its not full rendered in 4k but higher then 1440p but all menus and maps ect are 4k) Ultra Textures Ultra View distance High AA Medium Most items Low Shadows Low Foliage Avg about 75FPS GTX 970 I think this is the sweet spot Cranking resolution and textures first. then start with everything else Shadows and such lighting effects seem to be big toll on GPUS
I start with a baseline of high and then fine-tune for better performance without hurting visuals. Most games offer high or ultra, and ultra really boosts speed. I've noticed side-by-side tests showing minimal differences even when zoomed in, which makes me think ultra is overrated—it's just a trick to claim you need more power. Some older games still have genuine ultra options, but today it feels like a forced switch to hide hardware limitations. There are cases where ultra and high look nearly identical, so calling it "kill-performance-and-give-no-benefice-switch" makes sense.
The second point brought back memories of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. It didn't seem like a big change between medium and high textures, shadows faded at low settings but everything looked similar above that. Anti-aliasing became noticeable only with the second option (probably a typo), and higher AA didn't really help—just more noise and a drop in performance. The only way to keep the frame rate was to disable it. It's puzzling why I can't spot any differences in settings. The same applies to Alien Isolation—do we really reach a point where games can't look better at 1080p?