Global Illumination and Point Light Shadows Preview


So GL with performances, shadow gonna hurt a loot if they make even slight mistake, ever.
I appreciate the graphical improvements, however im a little concerned about how this will effect performance. Atleast for me, cause right now my fps is all over the place and probably won't even be able to use these new settings.

Please, improve performance if you can....would rather this then graphic improvements..
Last edited by Kilsum#5622 on Aug 20, 2018, 1:17:35 AM
Yes it looks amazing, but the performance is kinda crappy already, so I have mixed feelings. My CPU is an older quad core, but the graphic card is new (GTX 1070), yet still I have to play with everything on low (DX 11)
When night falls
She cloaks the world
In impenetrable darkness
Gonna try it and see how it will hit the performance.
I hope you can add an indicator/text when a pantheon soul is captured. :)
PoE starting to look better than D3!
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ArtCrusade wrote:
PoE starting to look better than D3!

Starting too? Stuck in 2012 are you?
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It looks very good, plus it forces you to play less cause of the dark content getting tiring for your eyes. Which is nice, cause then i will do more besides PoE in my free time.

''It's also fast enough to turn on by default on all hardware''

This worries me, since you said GI could be turned off, but this shadows upgrade can't.

Spoiler
If i remember correctly you went from:

1) introduce act 4 which is heavier for setups to run because of all the new terrain and mob spells,
2) announce in a manifesto that you would keep upgrading your engine so older setups would be able to keep running the game too
3) disregard that statement with every new release, but keeping the ''turn off'' options in the menu to at least in some way allow older setups to keep playing
4) forcing an upgrade with the 3.4 expansion with the above quote as the only guarantee

Only two scenario's i see for 5) are:
a) your statement is true, the game is still laggy because of step 3) but older setup user will be somewhat happy cause we can still play the game
b) your statement is untrue and you lose a % playerbase due to it

I could be wrong though.
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TauOrigin wrote:
Can we turn off this "Illumination and Point Light Shadows"?

Don't see why you would need to if they did their Engine Upgrade properly...this is quite old technology they've just added...any modern machine should be able to handle what they're going to throw...as long as they implemented everything cleanly.


but what about older machines and laptops? i cant play half of the time on my pc, bcs im away and i have pretty old laptop (im using it only for trading after 3.0).
Hope this will not reduce the performance.

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