Vertical Sync drops FPS

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DirectX only would exclude the Linux and Mac market. That would contradict any desire for extending to a wider market. By late 2014 to 2015 we'd probably see card manufacturers drop DirectX 9 support, or at least consider doing so.

BTW, SPACoD, the closer you are to an object, the higher the quality will the textures be. If you have trilinear texture filtering set, that's the most intensive texture filter available for the game. As far as i know, this game doesn't reduce the polygons for objects at a distance like BF3 does.