Well played SE - Grass settings in Benchmark

[Radacci]

shadow smoothing should take care of that.

the number one performance destroyer in games is foliage, the second is shader quality. put the two together and watch your VRam choke and your GPU melt.

It doesn't.
If i turn down shadow quality to 512 it looks smoother/blurry; but then shadows flicker.

I think Anti Aliasing, and Shadows are worse...in some games.

Actually i looked at bench video on media sites, etc...and the grass there looks fine; but on my bench it doesn't.
I'm using 1900 res, and anti aliasing, and it still looks like lego, so i'm guessing it's the GPU that's crappy at dealing with textures (Radeon HD 5770)
Gonna upgrade comp next week, so we'll see how it looks then.

[Abriael]

It doesn't.
If i turn down shadow quality to 512 it looks smoother/blurry; but then shadows flicker.

I think Anti Aliasing, and Shadows are worse...in some games.

Actually i looked at bench video on media sites, etc...and the grass there looks fine; but on my bench it doesn't.
I'm using 1900 res, and anti aliasing, and it still looks like lego, so i'm guessing it's the GPU that's crappy at dealing with textures (Radeon HD 5770)
Gonna upgrade comp next week, so we'll see how it looks then.

Shadow rendering does indeed vary depending on the GPU.