Shadow Options?

[Itharus]

I don't understand what the acronyms mean. Usually there's just Low, Medium, and High... but this game has acronyms. What do they mean?

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

CSM = Compatibility Support Module

RTWSM Adaptive Ray-bundle Tracing with Memory Usage[www.jp.square-enix.com]

as for differences in either one. i'm not sure.
i would hap hazard to guess that RTWSM is of the higher setting and both have something to do with future optimization by utilizing either function or system.

other than that wait for someone who knows more about it then i do just by simply googling it.

[Zack Wester]

googling return absolutly nothing except for the RTWSM and thats the quare-enix link.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

its a PDF. you have to let it load. and yes it's on a square enix website address, that doesn't matter if it explains what it does.

[Zack Wester]

Originally posted by HaTsUnE_NeKo:

its a PDF. you have to let it load. and yes it's on a square enix website address, that doesn't matter if it explains what it does.

took me like 10 min to get that PDF to load.. sadly in my opinion did´t say to mush on how well it would work and if it would be better or worse then for exaple CSM.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

yea takes a while to load. depending on your net.

[Zack Wester]

Originally posted by HaTsUnE_NeKo:

yea takes a while to load. depending on your net.

it takes a long time even on a 100/100Mbit line okey I might not get the full 100/100 but still.
for giigles I did the speedtest whit a random server in japan
298MS 5.42Mbit/s down and 7.74Mbit/s up.

[poulpademoguida]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc2jhlyOh_U

[Aviticus Dragon]

RTWSM is higher quality than CSM from what I've noticed in game however it takes more resources.

[Itharus]

right on

[Djeeshka]

I'm sorry for necroposting, but for these, who would stumble upon this post as I did while googling stuff, I will provide more specific info:

CSM - Cascaded Shadow Mapping;
RTWSM - Rectilinear Texture Warping Shadow Mapping (probably, not 100% sure);

Further googling these can provide tons of info

[Zack Wester]

thanks for the ingo stil dont say how fast/slow/acurate any of said options are.

[Chevalier of Possums]

I wouldnt use the rtwsm, i turned it on a few months ago and it shut down my pc. 1060 6g, i7, 16g ram. i went back to csm and havent had any trouble since then.

[bunny de fluff]

Originally posted by Shotgunwilly:

I wouldnt use the rtwsm, i turned it on a few months ago and it shut down my pc. 1060 6g, i7, 16g ram. i went back to csm and havent had any trouble since then.

CSM is far uglier looking than the RTWSM. Just use the second option.

[Itharus]

Can confirm that CSM is uglier, lol. Not sure if either one performs better, even after all this time. The game's optimization hasn't much improved since 2016 (or 2013 for that matter... ngl), roflmao.

Still a great game, though :)

[Shidan]

Originally posted by Itharus:

Can confirm that CSM is uglier, lol. Not sure if either one performs better, even after all this time. The game's optimization hasn't much improved since 2016 (or 2013 for that matter... ngl), roflmao.

Still a great game, though :)

You know, it didn't feel like optimization improved much over time, but it really did. I keep a number of old back up versions, ranging from 0.22 to 0.98.62. There is a significant performance improvement from the start of the new world, to now. It's actually really interesting to see how much improvement there was that went unnoticed, because it was only a little bit here and there.