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What's "real-time optimization?"

MaulclawMaulclaw
edited September 2018 in TERA PC - General Discussion
I've re-read this numerous times and even tried to see its effects during gameplay... but I really didn't notice anything different? What does this exactly do, and what are the changes between sliders?

I checked some links, but they were either outdated or dead.

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  • teralover123teralover123 ✭✭✭
    edited March 3
    Body is 10 characters too short.
  • ElinLoveElinLove ✭✭✭✭✭
    As far as my experience and guesswork goes, the game reduces texture quality and some effects when the FPS drops too much (say bellow 30), like in Velika's Freedom Plaza or commonly in Highwatch
  • MaulclawMaulclaw ✭✭✭
    edited September 2018
    JXG4WWHCMA wrote: »
    there is no such a thing in this game, come back in 20 years.

    Bug off.
    ElinLove wrote: »
    As far as my experience and guesswork goes, the game reduces texture quality and some effects when the FPS drops too much (say bellow 30), like in Velika's Freedom Plaza or commonly in Highwatch

    The game already does that by claiming that there's low "memory"? And which slider enables that? 0 or 3?
  • ElinLoveElinLove ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maulclaw wrote: »
    JXG4WWHCMA wrote: »
    there is no such a thing in this game, come back in 20 years.

    Bug off.
    ElinLove wrote: »
    As far as my experience and guesswork goes, the game reduces texture quality and some effects when the FPS drops too much (say bellow 30), like in Velika's Freedom Plaza or commonly in Highwatch

    The game already does that by claiming that there's low "memory"? And which slider enables that? 0 or 3?

    To be honest I do not know this well enough. One thing that is an old enough technique that does real time optimization for 3D graphics is Tesselation, it reduces the geometry detail the further it goes from the camera. This could be another one of the options enabled by this "real time optimization". It's honestly my guess only.
  • KillerPenguinsKillerPenguins ✭✭✭✭
    Maulclaw wrote: »
    JXG4WWHCMA wrote: »
    there is no such a thing in this game, come back in 20 years.

    Bug off.
    ElinLove wrote: »
    As far as my experience and guesswork goes, the game reduces texture quality and some effects when the FPS drops too much (say bellow 30), like in Velika's Freedom Plaza or commonly in Highwatch

    The game already does that by claiming that there's low "memory"? And which slider enables that? 0 or 3?

    They both basically do the same thing, but to different textures, afaik realtime changes mostly skill effects and the "low memory" thing is characters/etc... the low memory one was also added MUCH later than realtime optimization - it's just a hack to stop tera from hitting it's garbage collection cap so quickly (it's 32 bit and limited to ~3.2 gigs of ram, the game crashes if it tries to use more than that)
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