Is it worth to have ultra settings?

[SungerBob]

My game runs smooth on ultra shadows and other stuff, but does it really worth it? Like, I believe that making shadow very high or high and other settings will give me more fps, but will the visuals get worse or there's not much of a difference?

[Fajita Jim]

Depends. If you're at 60Hz, as long as it doesn't drop below 60FPS it's not going to make a difference except in visual quality, so go for it.

If it drops below 60FPS at any time, lower your settings. If you're playing at higher refresh rates, and it still feels smooth to you, then don't fix what isn't broken unless you're just after raw FPS for the pride.

[SungerBob]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Depends. If you're at 60Hz, as long as it doesn't drop below 60FPS it's not going to make a difference except in visual quality, so go for it.

If it drops below 60FPS at any time, lower your settings. If you're playing at higher refresh rates, and it still feels smooth to you, then don't fix what isn't broken unless you're just after raw FPS for the pride.

I have 240hz with steady 90-100 fps, but I would go for even more lowering down from ultra to very high or high if the visuals will not go rly bad, will I notice the difference?

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Wrohi:

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Depends. If you're at 60Hz, as long as it doesn't drop below 60FPS it's not going to make a difference except in visual quality, so go for it.

If it drops below 60FPS at any time, lower your settings. If you're playing at higher refresh rates, and it still feels smooth to you, then don't fix what isn't broken unless you're just after raw FPS for the pride.

I have 240hz with steady 90-100 fps, but I would go for even more lowering down from ultra to very high or high if the visuals will not go rly bad, will I notice the difference?

Hardly.

[mckracken]

i cant run shadows on ultra, because it goes below 60fps.
but In terms of visuals, it is acutally looking BETTER on high or very high because most game developers have no clue how shadows are looking in real life: largely soft to defined.

whereas on ultra the edges look so sharp, its like someone cut them out with scissors.

[Grimbleton]

After Far Cry 4, I was expecting a better set of graphics options, but it looks like Ubisoft's move to ditch NVIDIA Gameworks resulted in poorly optimized shadows and ambient occlusion. Like mckracken said, I'd set shadows to high and change AO settings in the config file.