nudnick
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- Apr 8, 2014
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I get noticeable lag when I play TPA with SweetFX. Which is why I need to see what DX11 looks like because I find the colours on the vanilla version to be too strong.
From time to time I was seeing lag. But I was always running TPA in Steam using Full Screen mode. It was weird ... lag would come and go. Some days would be fine, then it would lag and sometimes I could just back out of whatever table and go back in and it would correct and lag would go away. After TAF table update though, I was seeing more consistent lag. I read a forum post where someone suggested running in "Windowed" mode. So I switched and have no lag since. I am running Win8 on an AMD 6 core Phenom processor (probably 5 years old now but still kicking ass), 8 GB RAM, with a Nvidia GTX560. I posted before Christmas on TPA FB page asking if Vid cards would take a hit with the DirectX 11 update and FS replied back that there would be a slight hit but that I should be OK on my 560.
To make a short story long ... try running Sweet FX with TPA in Windowed mode. For me Windowed mode made all the difference in performance. I've got my desktop background color set to solid black and set the Task Bar to auto hide so I really don't notice that I'm playing in Windowed Mode at all. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think that there is much of a difference between Sweet FX and the things that FS are doing with "their approach" to editing lighting effects with DirectX 11.