Cut Left 4 Dead 2 Demo Removes Gore, Adds Performance
Blue's News —
PC Games Hardware has benchmarked the recently released demo for Left 4 Dead 2 compared with the version of the demo released in Germany that has some of the gore removed, and found the cut version runs about 40%(!) faster than the uncut version. Word is: The direct comparison between cut an uncut version reveals huge differences in performance. It doesn't matter if we use a dual-core E6600 or quad-core Q6600 processor, the less violent version of the demo runs about 40 percent faster that the uncut version. Furthermore the difference between the two uncut results (dual-core ...
Germany's Censored L4D2 Runs Faster [Censorship]
Kotaku —
... what indicates a higher CPU workload. This isn't just a trivial difference, PC Games Hardware points out owners of the cut version may play on "uncut" servers. So, "a scene that lags in the uncut version might be running smoothly in the cut version - especially in Versus Mode this could make the difference between death and survival." That said, someone with a full version may also reduce the depiction of violence through the game's command console. Left 4 Dead 2: Unfair Performance Benefits with Cut Version? [PC Games Hardware via Blue's ...
Edited Left 4 Dead 2 PC has better performance?
Big Download Blog —
... If you have an edited version of a game that has, say, less blood that the normal version along with bodies that disappear quickly among other things you might expect that the edited versions might have better performance than the original. PCGamesHardware.com seems to ...





