View Single Post
Old 03-24-06, 10:37 PM   #9
CWorth
Grey Wolf
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Gettysburg PA
Posts: 845
Downloads: 38
Uploads: 0
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Anachronous
Shame this wasnt finished. Shadows can make all the difference.

Maybe it was decided our PC wouldnt run it smoothly, so they left it out. Much like the ability to change resolution. Of course even though im running at 1280x960 with 16km and all high res textures, its nice of them to tell us that we wouldnt be able to run it smoothly in standard format.
Dynamic shadows would cause a pretty big hitch in the framerates.

Many sites I read say that the most strenuos thing for even the newest video cards to render are shadows.And dynamic shadows would really put many video cards to the stress test.
CWorth is offline   Reply With Quote