Post-Processing - Simply a matter of preference, or does it give a performance hit?

[B0T0X]

...just wondering... Has anyone tested this? I had set mine to "Muted" in hopes of gaining performance but I realized that might be a faulty assumption.

[shombowhore]

It's probably just a DX9 shader - putting it on muted may yield a few FPS on low end systems, but it isn't going to make any significant difference.

[B0T0X]

It's probably just a DX9 shader - putting it on muted may yield a few FPS on low end systems, but it isn't going to make any significant difference.

Vivid it is then :P

[Cr4zy]

I doubt it affects FPS much, but can quite easily change the colour and visual of a level. In some cases adding extra bloom or darker areas.

[LANCE.xd]

I just don't like how in Torlan it whites out the sky so you can't see where the shock beams attacking the side nodes are coming from.

[Oldskool0482]

And avalanche as well, how you can see the center node cause its whited out with it on anything other than muted.

[Xyx]

I don't think "muted" means "turned off".

[B0T0X]

I don't think "muted" means "turned off".

It doesn't... it means minimized, signifying that if it were processor-intensive, that this choice would minimize the impact it had on performance.

[LANCE.xd]

Post processing really doesn't affect much performance-wise. It's little more than just a color/effect overlay. Resolution and screen percentage are usually the first thing to look at when trying to get a few more FPS.

[LeaderX]

Dude, can't they ban your CD-Hash from every logging into GameSpy if you keep persisting with this? I'd lay off. It's giving a bad name to UT3pugs.

[Xyx]

it means minimized, signifying that if it were processor-intensive, that this choice would minimize the impact it had on performance.

I don't think "muted" means "low resource cost" either. It just means the result looks a bit underdone.

[dcy4pres]

It doesn't matter on the ps3 version, thats all I know...

[B0T0X]

I don't think "muted" means "low resource cost" either. It just means the result looks a bit underdone.

This isn't 4chan, lets not argue about syntax. It's pretty obvious what I meant at this point.

[Xyx]

I'm not arguing your syntax but your statement. You seem to indicate that using the muted setting gets you more FPS. I doubt that is true. Do you have any indications that one type of processing is less performance intensive than another?

[B0T0X]

My first post makes it clear that I am not making a claim, but asking a question... ...A question which was answered in the very next post.