Ive been seeing a lot of people complaining about poor performace on WCUSA. So, i have sort of a fix (Maybe, it works for me and i im trying to if its a isolated problem)... So 1.Go into Graphics Options 2. On the quality Selector, select Custom 3. A few options will pop up, including one called "Lightning Quality" 4. Lower that option to Lowest. 5. Report gains or losses in performance. To keep things consistent, DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE
wow, lowering graphics quality makes the game run faster who would've guessed Although i see your point, just drop that one but leave the others as they are. The lighting quality is probably intensive because of all the traffic lights etc
No, they do not emit any actual light. Kinda logical to expect lower FPS than our other maps. WECA is the most complex map we have so far. Also to be expected stuff to be polished as we go. There has already been some crazy optimization work since the map was in the early stages, and there's more likely room for more. What can heavily hit performance on that map: Dynamic Reflections (turn to minimum or off) SSAO Lighting Quality Mesh/Object Quality Slow hardware
In fairness WCUSA is gorgeous and isn't that bad for what it is. Less performance than other maps but there is more happening
Went from 8.3 fps with everything on Medium to 23-26 FPS, so yeah worth trying out It helped more any of the other settings. Just too bad it now looks kinda HL2-ish xD