Hey! My name is Alexander, I am the head of computer graphics programmers at Gaijin in the CRSED and Enlisted projects . Sometimes, in my spare time, I research how the graphics work in other games and find something interesting there.
I recently decided to figure out why XCOM 2 is slowing down on my laptop. While studying the rendering of this game, I found a number of places that could be accelerated without problems. The results of my little research have resulted in a video:
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