Hardware Vertex Shading : What does it do ?

[Siegfried]

Hello!
I tried googling and searching this forum on what differences does Hardware Vertex Shading Setting make, but so far I only see an explanation on Vertex Shading technology and a threads stating that I should uncheck it if I have missing textures problem.

However, I would like to know, what differences does it make graphicalwise.

Between leaving option on and off, which one would make the game looks better ?

Thank you very much for answering !



Lastly, I would like to say that I purchased this Steam Version purely because I want to support XSEED so that they can translated SC and TC for us. :P If you have pirate friends or friends who already own the Japanese version of the game, persuade them to support the English version too please!

[Saralene]

It's basically a choice between handling the vertex shading on the GPU or on the CPU. Performance will be better on most systems with it on, but for certain systems with Intel integrated graphics, there are crashes when it's enabled.