Riding On The Metro

Anglave occasionally, generously, buys me a game via the gift mode on Steam.

He enjoys something, he wants to share.

His latest is Metro: Last Light.

It's a first person shooter and I am enjoying it a lot.

Now...

I did not enjoy it much at first because the first section where you're not essentially playing a choose-your-own-adventure-book the game became a slide show.

So I dial all of the graphics settings down to the bare minimums.

Slide show.

I update the drivers for my video card.

Slide show.

I look up the minimum system requirements.

My machine is just below the middle between minimum and recommended.

Hrmmmm.

Anglave has been chatting with me the whole time and offering settings suggestions.  Suggestions that aren't in the video settings menu.

That gets me to remember that there was a "choose your gamma" right at the beginning of the game.

In the process of finding where to adjust that again I find graphics related choices in the "game" menu.

"Advance PhysX" is checked.

I uncheck it.

Game runs GREAT.

It doesn't look any different (except for the frame rate).

And that was true of most of the graphics settings changes.  Changing the resolution was noticeable.  Changing any of the other selections only affects frame rate.

These options consume smoke and return nothing.