Editing Fast Fur Render Pipeline options (section)

== Fallback Pipeline (Slow) ==
[[File:Fallback Pipeline.jpg|none|thumb|The Fallback Pipeline relies on slow Geometry shaders to discard all non-visible fur.]]
The Fallback Pipeline is the slowest pipeline, and will also have the lowest quality. It can render up to 32 layers of fur.

Its lower performance is because it relies on Geometry shaders to discard all non-visible triangles. Geometry shaders are unfortunately relatively slow to load into GPU memory, and they must reserve enough memory in advance for all possible output triangles, even if they later discard them. Any triangle that is too far away, or is backwards-facing, or is outside the visible screen area will still take time to be discarded by the Geometry shader.

Because even discarding triangles still takes some time, selecting a higher maximum layer limit comes with a performance hit, even when less layers are being rendered.

'''''The Fallback Pipeline is not recommended.''''' It is still much faster than other fur shaders that use the same approach, such as XSFur, but the only reason it is included is for compatibility reasons. This is because it doesn't use Hull + Domain shaders, which may not be supported with some games.