..Its become clear to me that many people on these forums believe that the best way to take a screenshot is to set all your sliders to the right. Well, thats quite possibly the worst way to take a screenshot. Maximum settings mean nothing unless your computer is able to perform well with them. The best settings are the ones that YOUR computer runs best and looks best with. I have spent a long time tweaking my computer and now have it set perfectly, so much so that I never touch my settings. Its all for performance, but at the same time with the settings set as best for my computer as I can get them the sim looks good. When I take a contest pic I do not touch my graphics settings.
For example, look at this screenshot:
This is a contest winning screenshot, it got me First Place in the Canadian Pilots forum contest. I didnt touch my settings. This is what my sim is set at normally. I didnt set my sliders to the right or anything. The only thing I did was set time of day and weather.
If I had maximized my settings this would have been a HORRIBLE screenshot. It just isnt good to set your settings as high as they can go, it gets you nothing but a hot computer and terrible performance
I dont have a super amazing computer, but with the right settings, tweaked to where the computer handles it best (no, I do not overclock), you can take amazing screenshots even with a lower end PC
Last edited by Jakemaster on Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.
