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Partially an offshoot of the water simulation thread, but I was curious. Lighting effects take up quite a bit of processing power and bloom is essential just a giant super flashlight blasting white into the environment that then has to calculate all the light rays bouncing around. Shutting it off can oftentimes boost FPS by 20 or even 30 (assuming FPS hasn't been stupidly capped by some idiot programmers).

Now my beef with Bloom effects is that I find it terribly annoying. It's intended to simulate real world lighting but the reality is that when implemented it is often taken horribly over the top (BFBC2 is an example of Bloom gone wild) and it just annoys me. On top of how it sucks up processing, I often turn it off and leave it off.

My question then is; How do you feel about bloom? Like it? Hate it? Don't give a flying gak about it? Just don't want it sucking up your GPU?

IMO it's never worth the loss in FPS so I never have it on.

I really don't mind it, unless its of course used badly. Providing I can still get a fairly decent FPS(usually 30+ for me) then I will leave it on. If it does in fact screw with my FPS badly I will turn it off until I upgrade my computer then try again.

I hate it with the white hot intensity of a thousand pre nerf BF3 tac lights.

I get people want games to look good, but I would rather have, you know, actual features instead of a ridiculously overtaxed engine trying to make my TV burn itself out.

But I'm weird like that.