The Old New Thing

“Adjust visual effects for best performance” should really be called “Adjust visual effects for crappiest appearance”

March 27, 2013 Mar 27, 2013 03/27/13

Raymond Chen

In the Performance Options control panel, on the tab labeled Visual Effects, there is a radio button called Adjust for best performance. If you select it, then all the visual effects are disabled. But the name of that radio button has been wrong for a long time. It doesn't actually adjust your visual effects for best performance. It just ...