MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries How to Fix FPS Drops while Zoomed

MW5 has some wonky engine issue with AF. I know that in every other game since 3D acceleration was a thing, AF is basically an auto-maxed setting, but it REALLY hurts performance in MW5, especially when you have the zoom window up.

Try reducing it to 4x or even 2x. I’m sure there’s some small effect on grass textures a kilometer from you or something that you might notice, but I never really perceived the difference… and the FPS gain made any such sacrifice worth it anyway.

That’s it. That’s the guide.

Sho-sa Yubari Takuda leads a Draconis Elite Strike Team, one of the Combine’s elite commando units. Well versed in techniques of conventional and unconventional warfare, even MechWarriors respect and fear the prowess of these deadly warriors.

A follower of the ancient code of the samurai, Sho-sa Takuda firmly believes in the superiority of the Combine warrior culture and has always maintained that it would produce a harmonious and prosperous society–if only the realm could be freed from the pressure of foreign aggressors.

But when a JumpShip malfunction catapults Takuda’s team and a company of mercenary MechWarriors beyond known space, he finds long-held beliefs challenged. For the warriors find themselves on a planet inhabited by a primitive alien race, a race enslaved by the descendants of another group of humans–from the Draconis Combine.