Will high resolution skins hurt FPS?

[Guard]

A 24bit 2048X2048 skin has a size of 12mb, I wonder whether using such huge files will hurt FPS?

[Stealth_HR]

In my case it hurt the FPS and degraded my quality because my graphics card can't properly handle textures as large as 2048^2 - I'd get dropped polygons. However, I manually resized the images to 1024^2, retained a still-high level of detail (using smart resize in PaintShopPro), and I didn't get any problems.

 

Of course, your mileage may vary, but generally, the more detailed the texture, the bigger the memory usage - and the bigger the FPS hit.

 

HTH.

[SuperKungFu]

yea having 2048x2048 skins will lag pretty bad if u don't have a decent rig. That's why i shrank it down to 1024x1024, you can't even tell the difference unless you are playing on one huge ass screen with high res. So mind as well save the fps.

[Guard]

thx for reply. My computer is not very powerful, so I think 1024X1024 is the way to go.

[Stealth_HR]

thx for reply. My computer is not very powerful, so I think 1024X1024 is the way to go.

 

Yes, 1024^2 is quite enough for most skins. As I suggested, youmight want to try resizing the skins yourself and moving them to \Bazar\TempTextures manually. I run most of my skins that way and everything works flawlessly.