Posted this also in the http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1544248-bug-report-index-pc/page-1 topic

But its also relevant to Beta 1.2.33 which I am testing out :

I have quite a decent laptop which is being detected as needing LOW settings by the Launcher

http://www.msi.com/product/notebook/GS70-2QE-Stealth-Pro.html#hero-specification

Specifications of the one I have :

I do have the launcher exe and the game exe set in NVidia Profiles as needing the High Performance NVidia Processor, so that when the launcher looks at your system to determine optimal settings, it should pick up on the correct GPU

However the game launcher still sets Low even after ensuring High Performance is set on the NVidia profiles.

( In my case setting this did not happen automatically, I manually added them - Same as Skyrim when that game is first introduced to any machine with an Optimus setup, the launcher needs to be manually added as a profile set to High Performance GPU, otherwise you get crap settings for a game that can run easily in Ultra on this machine )

I am currently running the game with settings as set by Geforce Experience ( quite a few of the Advanced options were set to Ultra, most of the rest at High, and the game runs smoothly ) - I dont ordinarily run the Geforce Experience service, but until you guys sort out the launcher setup failures this has helped to get a reasonable ballpark setup.

Well no matter what I try I cannot get the game launcher to set anything but Low automatically

A few things that strike me as odd ( apart from the fact it should be detecting machine capabilities a lot better ) :

Why if the game is setting itself Low for my machine specs, does it insist on still selecting SSAO for Ambient Occlusion, instead of setting that to Off ?

That in particular strikes me as being contradictory - Or maybe its one of the higher settings which is being detected correctly and setting it despite the overall Low detection.

But using SSAO on lower spec' machines in the past with Boris Vorontsov ENB installed, I always found to be one setting I really ought to drop if I wanted optimal performance.

It was always a bit of a heavy hitter in terms of performance degradation.

Contraversially - Anisotropic Filtering is set to off - O_o, with a GeForce GTX 970m 3gb VRAM

And all the distance sliders for Actors / Objects etc are all set to their respective absolute minimum

Here are the settings after clicking Reset and Low is detected

https://i.imgur.com/np8OK44.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/y1Dlo6i.jpg

I can play the game consistantly averaging above 60 fps, and it feels as smooth as silk, with much higher settings than those