Game needs to restart to change graphics settings

>game needs to restart to change graphics settings

I hated so fucking much NFS Shift for this.

>Game changes graphic settings without requiring a restart or even causing the framerate to hang up / brief black screen, all done seamlessly
>Main Menu is full of various graphical features so you can see what is affected by each setting in real time

>change a shit load of settings
>game needs to restart to change these settings
>dont know which settings cause the need for reset
Drives me bananas.

>change game graphic settings
>apply
>game freezes

>graphical settings only available in the main menu
>have to load and quit every time to change shit

>Game starts at ridiculously low resolution fullscreened

>graphics crashes every time you tab out

>Changing graphics settings works fine when at the main menu
>If you try applying changes while in-game, it shits the bed

Source games like TF2 were a bastard for this

>start game
>game detects your card
>graphics switch to ultra
>60 fps because game is perfectly optimized

>alt tab out of game
>doesn't have a task tray icon

>THE GAMES EATS YOU

>Warning, your pc doesnt have the required video memory
>Required memory 256MB
>Your memory 8192MB

>alt+tab
>game.exe has stopped working
>cursor is locked to the top left corner of the screen

Some DOS game?

I hate that shit.

>change all kinds of settings
>game automatically restarts the renderer for you
>open console to change even more settings
>game has extensive config system so you can write your own autoexec.bat and fine tune every setting

>see screenshots of a game and think you'll have to maybe turn the AA down or something to get it to run smoothly
>when you boot it up it defaults at ultra and runs fine

Optimization makes my dick super fucking hard.

>DOS
>256MB VRAM

Task bar or system tray?

task bar my bad

F.E.A.R and Doom 3.

>DOS game
>requires 256MB of anything
Are you perhaps a young user?

>textures have to reload every time you tab into the game