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== LaunchPad settings == An important step is to check and change your LaunchPad settings. {| |[[File:Launchpad gear.png|550px|left]] |See the gear with "Advanced Tools" with the red oval (red oval added to this image for highlighting) around it? That is the button to open the "Advanced Tools". Click that. |} {| |[[File:Launchpad gameconfiguration.png|550px|left]] |Click the "Game Configuration" (red oval added to this image for highlighting) to open the settings window. |} [[File:Launchpad videocard.png|left]] If the one highlighted is your video card, or if you don't know, click Next. If it lists more than one and your video card is not the one highlighted, then click on your video card to highlight it and click Next. If you know it has the wrong video card or none is listed, you need to get some help from Daybreak technical support. You do not want Microsoft Basic Render Driver. <p style="clear:both;"></p> [[File:Launchpad modelselection.png|left]] This is the part where you choose if you want to use the old player models or the new (Luclin) ones. The ones checked will use the new models. Unchecking the boxes will use the older models for that sex / race and will give you better performance. However, for the sex / race that matches your character(s) you need to use the new models if you wish to use a [[Mounts|mount]]. Note: If you use the old models, you may still wear / view [[Hero's Forge]] armor, but the look is changed. If you want to speed up your game and you have very little computer RAM (less than 8 GB), then you might wish to uncheck as many of these as you can. <p style="clear:both;"></p> [[File:Launchpad enginesettings.png|450px|left]] The settings in the image shown are what Fanra has changed his settings to since the January 17, 2024 change to DirectX 11. He recommends these settings to reduce lagging / frame rate issues / stuttering and/or slow zoning. '''Sound:''' Having a 16 piece orchestra constantly playing in the background can be a bit of a drain if you don't have a dedicated sound card, so if your computer is a bit older and you know full well you lack a sound card (almost every computer built in the last five years, except for very high end models, does not have a dedicated sound card), you may wish to turn this off. This also does affect Audio Triggers, they will be unavailable if sound is off. '''Social Animations:''' /Wave, did you see me wave? I know right, how totally cool! The graphics engine in EQ is archaic, and the social animations are not helping. These little movements can cause drastic lag spikes on low end PCs. '''Mip Mapping:''' '''With the DirectX 11 game update on January 17, 2024, I'm now recommending that Mip Mapping be set to Unchecked.''' Mip mapping is an interesting technique, essentially the game will take a texture, and then make another texture at 1/2 the resolution (1/4 the image size), then again, and again, and again until you're down to a 1x1 pixel image. Each of these additional textures are loaded into memory. When the game needs a texture, at certain distances away from you, rather than drawing the higher res texture, the game will instead draw the appropriate lower resolution texture, resulting in less work for your video card. However, this takes a good chunk more memory from your card. If you've got an old setup, you'll want to turn it off, lest you overload your graphics card...conversely, if your card is a beast that eats 10 EQ instances for breakfast, turn it on and you'll get a decent performance boost. Unless your system is very old or uses on-board graphics rather than a video card, I would recommend having this on. EQ doesn't stress most video cards, most of the graphics work is done by the CPU. '''Dynamic Lighting:''' This is the effect produced by your Epic/Helm and any other item that gives off light when equipped. It's not the worst thing in the world to have on, but if you're at the point where you need to cut out every bit of useless filler that you can, it's not going to hurt your gameplay at all to turn this off. Turning it off may greatly improve performance in crowded zones or areas, especially in [[Laurion Inn]]. '''Texture Caching:''' With the January 17, 2024 game update switching the game to DirectX 11, it is recommended that you check this option. {{Cquote|<br />...Oh and TextureCache is obsolete. ||| [https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/directx-11-the-stuttering-makes-the-game-unplayable.295587/page-14#post-4284745 Cairbrae, EQ Developer, February 14, 2024]}} '''Texture Compression:''' Check. {{Cquote|<br />These two options <nowiki>[Texture Caching, Texture Compression]</nowiki> are obsolete and not used in the EQ game client. ||| [https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/soulbanshees-everquest-settings-parser.296011/#post-4299045 Cairbrae, EQ Developer, April 2, 2024]}} '''Resolution''' Set this to what you normally have it when you play EQ. If you change this from your normal game resolution, you may have to rearrange your UI windows. '''Texture Quality''' Since the January 17, 2024 change to DirectX 11, this may greatly affect your gaming. I recommend you set it for Low. If you wish to experiment you can come back here later and try increasing it.
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