Official: Legacy Renderer

[Survivalist]

Hello everyone,

Is anyone using the 'Legacy Renderer' setting in the options menu? It is intended to help users with older cards with performance, but some test machines aren't showing much of a difference between it and deferred.

If you have an Older card, or relatively low specs, does changing this setting to Legacy have any effect?

If you do use it already, what kind of difference is there between deferred if you switch back?

Please include your PC specs as well! :)

Thank you,
Evan

[ZenthHaven]

Ive found, Runnin on Pre settings, Fastest then turninf off motion blur and all that but put Draw distence to Med, I when from 2-5 fps to 10-20 defending on solo or coop.

[Saint]

"Legacy Renderer" is ♥♥♥♥. 750ti

[Gun Tech.]

G3258, 16GB, HD7970, so not super-old I guess. I guess you're looking only for performance differences, even though you didn't specifically state that. Maybe I had slightly better performance (all settings maxed except motion blur and AA on medium on 1080p), but that could be imagination. I didn't have severe performance issues before.

Saw two rendering differences:

1. Beach sand is too shiny? (Could be my imagination, was early morning in the game btw)
2. All the small trees that are about as tall as your eyes and give 1 stick with 1 chop "plop in" at a too near distance. I.e. only 70 yards away they will look like faraway firs, i.e. light, light green with a very white outline, 30 yards medium green and "plop" darkish green as you're 5 yards away. This was the only clear noticable diff from Deferred. None of the other vegetation had this issue.

Hope it helps :)

[Gun Tech.]

Disregard 1.

[Peekaboo]

Since this game was made with unity and I work with it, on my old gforce 210 legacy gave only playable fps. gtx 750ti no performance difference, except the trees glow at night on legacy

[M.Reus95]

Hallo

[ancalimon]

Originally posted by Gun Tech.:

G3258, 16GB, HD7970, so not super-old I guess. I guess you're looking only for performance differences, even though you didn't specifically state that. Maybe I had slightly better performance (all settings maxed except motion blur and AA on medium on 1080p), but that could be imagination. I didn't have severe performance issues before.

Saw two rendering differences:

1. Beach sand is too shiny? (Could be my imagination, was early morning in the game btw)
2. All the small trees that are about as tall as your eyes and give 1 stick with 1 chop "plop in" at a too near distance. I.e. only 70 yards away they will look like faraway firs, i.e. light, light green with a very white outline, 30 yards medium green and "plop" darkish green as you're 5 yards away. This was the only clear noticable diff from Deferred. None of the other vegetation had this issue.

Hope it helps :)

7970 is a very fast card even by todays standards.

[DuckieMcduck]

I think it's important to point out in the options menu that the legacy renderer should only be used if you have an onboard card or worse. I have an HD5700 and as a custom since 2014 I set everything in the game to lowest but also forced the renderer to legacy, which only tanked my performance. When I fiddled with it some more and used the standard renderer, I gained +30FPS.

[Nerevarine]

Legacy renderer makes it lag, i get lower fps than with the new renderer. i got
Intel Pentium E5500 2.8GHZ
6GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

[Hoopsure]

Legacy Renderer had a MAJOR effect on me when I finally found it before I upgraded my specs, the game ran so much better and it fixed a bug I had which made the game unplayable. I was using integrated graphics on my pc and when I finally found that option it fixed so many issues. Please leave it in. (Also, it's the only way to fix that same bug on my laptop for now)


The bug mainly caused 2 things:

• The world to be in eternal darkness (it looked like it was always night time even during the day, making it extremely hard to see anything and I always had to have my lighter out)

• Light sources would have massive black circles around them (including the flashlight, making it unuseable for the longest time)

Using the older cards mode fixed this completely but it cause some minor
but manageable bugs.


So, as far as performance, I didn't notice much impact since it was already bad. But it fixed some game breaking issues. So for users using integrated graphics (low end prebuilt computers usually with no actual graphics card) it is a must until they can get better specs.

[B2own]

does not matter what setting i have the game on, it runs smooth for 15mins then, then runs like ♥♥♥♥ with massive echos and stuttering

[Astro Fistach]

nice

[Bloodstormz]

i have several machines, on my old machine has an old Radeon 6950 8 gig it can run this game wide open with no fps loss, when she turns on "Legacy" you can see into the ponds and look at the fish, but when its set to deferred the ponds look like black ice. i havn't noticed any other differences.

[Charliebrownau [HIGH]]

Gday

Its May 2018

Any chance by Dec 2018 this game can support

OpenGL 3.3 (Legacy Renderer?)
OpenGL 4.5 (same graphics as DX11)

and in 2019-2020 it can add VULKAN (same graphics as DX12)


Note:
OpenGL 4.5 is the same graphics as DX11 but runs on
MacOSX + LINUX + Windows 7/8/10

Vulkan has the same graphics as DX12 yet runs on
LINUX + Windows 7/8/10

[Rastlin]

Originally posted by B2own:

does not matter what setting i have the game on, it runs smooth for 15mins then, then runs like ♥♥♥♥ with massive echos and stuttering

Same here but it starts by the time i leave the plane. 60 fps 30 fps by the time i hit the ground 10fps while i wack the luggage echo/reverb. I deleted my drives, reinstalled windows and steam. then installed the forest nice and clean. Still echo/reverb, i can rule out 3rd party interference.