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The mysteries of Tessellation

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So all this time, I have had tessellation set to off.  I figured I have a good mesh for the areas I fly; and I heard it was hard on the CPU.

I also have PTA v2, and the world looked pretty good - except for my weird light bluish lakes and rivers.  And I could barely see any cloud shadows.

 

Just for the heck of it, I turned tessellation 'on' tonight while experimenting, and - Christmas gift! - my lakes and rivers are darker, and while not dramatic, I can see moving cloud shadows.

 

Does anyone have any idea why this would be??  I thought tessellation was just for the details of the physical landscape.

 

Edit:  I have v3.2, GTX970 card, and almost new driver.  Tessellation is set one notch left of extreme right on all sliders.

Ron

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Tessellation enables detailed water which is what you are seeing, there are moving cloud shadows without tessellation as well. How is the difference in performance though?

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It seems to be acceptable.  Probably a stutter or two that might not have been there before; but the visual improvement is worth it.

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