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Right to start off this game is very good IMO especially played at night in the dark with headphones on loud. Can be really intense!
But even on my GTX 480 i noticed the gameplay slowing a slight bit. So i did a bit of research and found a few tweaks that can help improve performance drastically.
First of all if you have a DX11 set up;
- Disable DOV(Depth of View): for some reason this can improve fps by somewhere between 10 and 20 fps which it did on mine it jumped by a stupid amount and with fraps reported that with DOV off, AAA(anti aliasing) and Ansiotropic filtering at 4X I hit 100FPS in certain places of the bridge level.
These don't require a DX11 set up;
-Enable Vsync: this can either be done in Nvidia Control Panel/ Equivalent ATi program(don't know how to do it with Catalyst). This has been reported to also make the fps much more stable and slightly higher.
This can be also be done by changing the values in the user.cfg file in the metro 2033 folder.
-Enable Triple Buffering: again this setting can be set in Nvidia control panel (not sure about ATi cards again). This combined with the Vsync tweak has been reported to also produce gains in fps in truth i only saw about a 3-5 fps increase but still the more the merrier.
-Change Global Illumination: this has to be changed in the user.cfg file in the metro 2033 install folder open the cfg in notepad and edit the value to 1.
The value needed to be changed is r_gi 0 change the 0 to 1. However this is not reccomended on lower end CPU's as for some reason it provides a decrease in performance.(Note it does not make a difference in DX9)
Eye Candy Settings
Anti Aliasing
Going from AAA to MSAAX4 i saw literally little to no difference in visual appearance so for me I leave it to AAA for a smoother gameplay expeirence.
Ansiotropic Filtering
Same as above I saw little difference going to 16X Ansiotropic so if you prefer a smoother game leave to 4X.
Hope this helps some people at least.
But even on my GTX 480 i noticed the gameplay slowing a slight bit. So i did a bit of research and found a few tweaks that can help improve performance drastically.
First of all if you have a DX11 set up;
- Disable DOV(Depth of View): for some reason this can improve fps by somewhere between 10 and 20 fps which it did on mine it jumped by a stupid amount and with fraps reported that with DOV off, AAA(anti aliasing) and Ansiotropic filtering at 4X I hit 100FPS in certain places of the bridge level.
These don't require a DX11 set up;
-Enable Vsync: this can either be done in Nvidia Control Panel/ Equivalent ATi program(don't know how to do it with Catalyst). This has been reported to also make the fps much more stable and slightly higher.
This can be also be done by changing the values in the user.cfg file in the metro 2033 folder.
-Enable Triple Buffering: again this setting can be set in Nvidia control panel (not sure about ATi cards again). This combined with the Vsync tweak has been reported to also produce gains in fps in truth i only saw about a 3-5 fps increase but still the more the merrier.
-Change Global Illumination: this has to be changed in the user.cfg file in the metro 2033 install folder open the cfg in notepad and edit the value to 1.
The value needed to be changed is r_gi 0 change the 0 to 1. However this is not reccomended on lower end CPU's as for some reason it provides a decrease in performance.(Note it does not make a difference in DX9)
Eye Candy Settings
Anti Aliasing
Going from AAA to MSAAX4 i saw literally little to no difference in visual appearance so for me I leave it to AAA for a smoother gameplay expeirence.
Ansiotropic Filtering
Same as above I saw little difference going to 16X Ansiotropic so if you prefer a smoother game leave to 4X.
Hope this helps some people at least.