Was TLOD 200 the old “ultra” setting?

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Hey all,

Call me crazy but I think I remember during a Dev Q&A stream that one of the guys said that the old Ultra was now the 200 setting in TLOD. Does anyone remember when they said that? I’ve been away for 2 years and back in the day I remember the TLOD being a selection between Low/Med/High/Ultra. Now I come back and their is a slider from 10-400. I it’s wanted to see if anyone remembered the number for the old ultra.

Thanks
Marc

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Hi Marc,

It was always 10-400 (and I think you could set it higher than that in the cfg file, but in one of the Sim Updates(SU8?) The affect of the numbers changed, and I think the rule of thumb was that the new 200 (now current 200) was roughly equivalent to the old 400 but with better performance (and slightly reduced quality?) It was a while ago now. But certainly, reducing the LOD sliders usually makes a significant improvement in performance without the same hit on look and feel that it had on the original versions.

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Hello Marc,

Yes I believe it was 200 but I think it’s fairly irrelevant now the LOD has been tampered with so much.

I keep mine at 170 using 11900k and 3070ti

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Thanks guys…

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Yes it was 200 for the max I believe up until Su7 or SU8.

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Yes 200 was the ultra setting before one of the sim updates, but they increased it to 400 for those that wanted it. I run at 300 a lot of the time which looks great in 2k (though not greatly different at 1080) but it has a hit on performance with a lot of addon packages. 400 looks fantastic but the performance hit is way to great for my rig (which is no slouch with a 5800X3D and an RTX3080).

Quite a few even run below 200 to improve stuttering and fps.

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Thanks again for the comments y’all…

I just got my new rig (13900KS / 4090) and I’m very happy with the results with a ultra wide 1440P monitor.

Marc

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You can indeed. I used to run 500/500 for a few months, but those days are long gone. I’m down to 300/200 now to get the same performance I had back then.

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