Why do bodies in L4D2 disappear?

[Shell]

Aren't they supposed to stay? In my game, there's still all of the gore and such but the bodies disappear after a while.

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[Jokey365]

To prevent lag.

[Bisjac]

you arent supposed to be staying in 1 place long enough to notice...

[Shell]

It's satisfying seeing the bodies pile up, though.

To prevent lag.

But in other people's games the bodies stay.

[MegaScientifical]

Because their computers can handle the ragdolls and work on higher settings, probably.

[Shell]

So there's no setting for it, and it just changes depending on your computer?

[Nickelob Ultra]

If your computer can't handle it, the game will likely "terminate" the corpses after a while.  On my high end computer, there tends to be large amounts of dead zombie corpses.  Considering how detailed the gore is, it's pretty understandable for the game to be made to do this.

[Awdax]

So there's no setting for it, and it just changes depending on your computer?

Y'know how when you get a new game on Steam sometimes, it automatically checks your specs and everything?
There ya go.

[Shell]

aw.

locking now that there's a solution