SSAO samples vs quality

[Tayrtahn]

From the Troubleshooting Guide:

- SSAO Quality. Having this to anything but medium is at own risk. High takes 4 times the time to rendered and should not be on unless you have a monster of a computer.

- SSAO Samples: Keep this at 16 if you want to keep your sanity. Anything else is very demanding. Feel free to try though Smile

Just from reading that, I'd guess that while there's a difference between SSAO on and SSAO off, increasing the quality and samples only provides a tiny improvement.

Which makes sense... if I understand the idea of SSAO correctly, increasing the quality just makes it a bit more accurate. It's a bit like how shadow quality works - better settings will clean up the edge of the shadow a little at what can be a significantly increased processing cost, but even low quality shadows are a major visual boost over no shadows.