You mean like these:
I’ve seen a few threads post patch 2 suggesting that detail has been turned down in order to improve performance.
TL;DR - I see no difference, other than an improvement where trees were overgrowing things and where the post patch image appears to be slightly sharper in some cases.
This has generally been suggested as a bad thing because it penalises those with better hardware/systems and takes away from the sims clear winning visuals. There is some mention of LOD slider being changed (so that …
Hi everyone again. Ok, so after Patch 2, and lots of posts about differences in the visuals, I did a post comparing pre and post patch 2 screenshots. So after patch 3 and, guess what, a lot of posts about differences in the visuals, I now present to you an extended version of my previous post with new post patch 3 screenshots included for comparison.
TL;DR - As previously found, very little difference from pre to post patch 2. Trees slightly reduced, and possibly slight sharpening. From pre to…
OK, so if I understand you correctly, in the Amazon series, the first 2 pics are release version, no mods, and the last 2 pics are latest version no mods - so comparable? This is true of the others too - so if we ignore your “with mod” pics, we can see a fair comparison. Not sure why everyone is complaining about comparisons with/without mods.
Anyway, these comparisons are really interesting. I downloaded the old v new (both without mods), and zoomed in max on them, and see the following:
Amaz…
The last one is from June. To be honest, they all showed that whilst there are some subtle differences, the visual quality has not degraded and, in fact has generally stayed the same or improved. I got a bit bored doingn them coz they take ages. Not sure I can face doing them again.
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