Not actually a New Recruit but this is the proper section to look for this:
So far I've only enabled it once and the only visual difference I have seen is Depth of Field being enabled. I've searched before and it's really just poked at my curiosity.
If anyone has an answer, I'd love to hear it.
What render effects do, a picture of the tooltip that appeares if you hover your mouse over the option.
I Don't know, but when I disabled compatibility mode, the bird for the argent peacemaker charge is now gold.
Render effects option is the option for post-rendering of every frame that outputs from the game. Essentially adding some flashy stuff to your raw output, like a overlap. This consumes some GPU, so for better performance, keep it unchecked.
Curious-Mewcat, what terms would you put into google to find out more information on this and other video terminology? Seems you know alot video.
Nah, I just play lots of video games and try to understand what the options in the game are and how they affect gameplay (especially having a low-end computer).
To learn more, you can google "video games graphics options" or the likes to learn stuff like V-Sync, AA, Post Rendering.
Like the name implies, render effects are effects that are applied after the image has already been drawn. This is stuff like depth-of-field, motion blur and bloom. Out of those, only depth-of-field is used.
While we're at it, what's the anti-aliasing? The Wikipedia article didn't help.
AA, or anti-aliasing is the smoothing of objects that are displayed in the game. It mainly turns your rough edges into smoother edges, by adding more pixels, so you get that smooth, more natural feel. The greater the AA level, from 0 to x2, x4, x8, the more smoother the edges become, at the cost of your gpu.
Thanks for the direct answers both of you.
I was wondering why Depth of Field was the only noticeable difference. Thanks for the replies.
good question, the only thing I noticed it does is make SK run slightly slower on my 5 year old laptop