How do you know? All you can see in the picture is that the tessellation dropped a notch in this particular situation. It could be because:
1. They reduced it to improve something else, such as frame rate. Is it then a downgrade or is it a balancing? It's the latter, since frame rate is also a part of graphics.
2. They didn't reduce it, but they increased something else and the adaptive tessellation kicks in and adjusts to the new situation.
3. They didn't change anything, these pictures were just taken at one situation where the scene was less busy and one situation where the scene was more busy.
4. They reduced the tessellation to make room for more cars, or better audio, or to gain something else that is not related to graphics.
In case 1 and 2 you have to evaluate the sum of the changes before you can say whether it's an upgrade, downgrade or status quo (for example: "tessellation was reduced a little, but the frame rate improved and overall that gives a slightly better impression, so I consider it a graphics upgrade").
In case 2 and 3 it wasn't even they who reduced the tessellation, but the system did it on its own.
In case 3 nothing had changed at all.
Only in the fourth case can you tell from the picture that it's a graphics downgrade.
You're in luck though, tomorrow on all 3 of the tracks we get rolling starts. So that should be a lot more fun with RWD and FWD cars.
Should of had .4's was able to chain a couple of .6 laps together within 2 hundreths of a second, so the consistency was their but i couldnt focus hard enough due to a busy couple days at work just wanted to sleep after i came home but guess what i had to give it a go lol...
Rather ironic to play another game for the classic Gran Turismo JDMs.
