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chancefate Nov 9, 2016 @ 9:44pm
What exactly is adaptive resolution?
I have looked it up online and been able to find out very little. If I am running SLIed 1080s, do I want it on at max? Lowest setting? Off?

I don't understand what the setting does.

Thanks for any help.
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Jocosity Nov 9, 2016 @ 9:47pm 
My understanding is that it's similar to the feature the consoles have on some games, where if your framerate goes below the number you have it set to the game automatically lowers the resolution to keep up the framerate.
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Felix Krowe Nov 9, 2016 @ 9:49pm 
I *think* it's a % of the resolution the game is allowed to drop down to in order to preserve frames per second. So if you play at 1440p and have it set to 75%, you're telling the game it's okay to reduce the resolution a little (no more than down to 1080p, or 75% of 1440p) to keep the frames constant and smooth.
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chancefate Nov 9, 2016 @ 9:53pm 
So if I feel my computer can handle the game without help, I can turn it down to the lowest setting?
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Sean8102 Nov 9, 2016 @ 10:05pm 
Originally posted by chancefate:
So if I feel my computer can handle the game without help, I can turn it down to the lowest setting?

No you would want to set it to 100 percent, so the adaptive res can't go below your native res. putting it on the lowest setting would tell it it can go all the way down to 50 percent or whatever the lowest is of your native res
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chancefate Nov 9, 2016 @ 10:09pm 
Ok, thanks. It's just crazy to me it's so hard to find info about this online or even on the games own website. I've never heard of it before!
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Diabetus Nov 9, 2016 @ 10:14pm 
Originally posted by Scott Lufkin:
I *think* it's a % of the resolution the game is allowed to drop down to in order to preserve frames per second. So if you play at 1440p and have it set to 75%, you're telling the game it's okay to reduce the resolution a little (no more than down to 1080p, or 75% of 1440p) to keep the frames constant and smooth.

I'm going to be one of those guys and point out that the % decrease from 1440p to 1080 is actually around 56.1%. You have to look at the total dimensions of the resultion not just the vertical portion (1920x1080 and 2560x1440). Other than that, you are correct.

Sorry, I had to.
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Felix Krowe Nov 10, 2016 @ 3:51am 
Originally posted by Diabetus:
Originally posted by Scott Lufkin:
Sorry, I had to.

LOL. But, did you? :)

I did know that, but I resize a lot of screenshots and 75% always sizes it down to 1080 so I think I just got in a habit of thinking of it that way.
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