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This page will explain the configuration options available in the Wurm Client login screen. Ideally the screenshots should be annotated; let me (Egal) know if you have some suitably annotaed screenshots and I can upload them.
Click on the Options button on the Wurm Client Login screen to display the configuration options screens. Thanks to Taiho for the performance recomendationsrecommendations.
==Game Tab==
: You here have the choice between [[JOGL]] + AWT and [[LWJGL]]. If you have an ATI graphics card (Radeon series), you will want to use LWJGL renderer, or you will get a lousy fps no matter what you do.
;Resolution
: Choose from the resolutions that are supported by your graphics card, which may include: 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960. A setting of 800x600 is best for performance, most newer graphics cards have that as the optimal resolution, setting to 640x480 will sometimes decrese decrease performance. Wurm looks much better at higher resolutions so compare the performance at different settings.
;Fullscreen
:Play Wurm in a window or use all of the screen. Windowed and Fullscreen does not have much difference, fullscreen yields a little more performance, not really noticable noticeable unless on an old computer; this may depend on your graphics card.;GUI Window opacity: The opacity of the interface windows. This can make screens like the inventory see-through, completely solid, or something in between.
;Bob viewport when walking
:Checked tickbox means that camera will bob up and down to simulate walking. This has been said to annoy you as you cannot click objects while walking at the cost of performance, nothing good coming from it, turn it OFF.
;Outline hovered objects
:Make the ouline outline of objects under the cursor glow. Outline hovered objects: Minimal, if any negative effect on performance, have it on so you will have it easier to see what you are actually having under your mouse (sometimes you actually don't know without reading the text). Have it ON.
;Censor bad language
:Will censor bad language in a chat message. Turn it OFF unless you are really sensitive to swearing. No effect on performance.
:Checked tickbox means that any chat windows will have the time printed next to a message. Turn it ON, it helps keep track of when someone said something in the chat window. Minimal or no effect on performance.
;Loglevel
:set to Console only unless you want to log what people say, then choose the apropriate appropriate option to what you need. Setting to Everything will have effect on performance because there are more writes to the harddrive.
==Graphics Tab==
:Choose from Low, Medium, or High. Set to Low. This has some effect on performance and affects the quality. More means more detailed landscape far away from you. If you appreciate a good view then use high unless your computer can't handle it.
;Water reflection
:Choose from None, "Sky only", "Sky and terrain", "Sky, terrain, and trees", "Almost everything". Have set to NONE unless you have a semi-old card (FX5600 or better atleastat least) and a good CPU (AMD athlon 2000+, 2GHZ P4). It has a great effect on performance, turning it on will use alota lot, but with a good comp it only gives a small drop in performance and it does make the water look nice.
;Tile Decorations
:Choose from Extremely Sparse, Sparse, Normal, Dense, or Extreme. Have this set to Extremely Sparse. It makes it much prettier, but you also have a harder time finding anything on the ground, unless it is on/in Dirt, road, water, rock or sand. Large performance drop if used.
;Tree Render Distance
:Choose from Very short, Short, Normal, Far, or Extreme. The amount of trees you can see. Have set to Very Short to have best performance and ability to see stuff farther away in a forest ;) But Short or Normal are optimal for quality versus performance. Only use the better options if using a good computer.
;Structure Render Distance
:Choose from Very short, Short, Normal, Far, or Extreme. The distance in which you can see structures. Set it to very short for a performance boost when you are in a (large) town. Set to Extreme if you want to see towns from quite a distance away. ''The maximum setting of this option is the setting of Tree Render Distance''
;Item/Creature Render Distance
:Choose from Very short, Short, Normal, Far, or Extreme. Set this to very short for a performance boost. Setting this to extreme helps looking for items and creatures. ''The maximum setting of this option is the setting of Tree Render Distance''
;Cave Detail
:Choose from Very Low, Low, Normal, High. Set to normal, the difference in performance from Low to Normal is minimal, and in a Cave you don't need great performance mostly. Even set to the highest does not drop your performance too much.
:Set this to none for a great performance increase. Setting this to the highest setting will cause the client to render everything twice.
;Render Cloud Shadows
:Turn this off for a noticable noticeable performance increase.
;Pretty trees (models near player)
:Have it ON unless it really makes the game unplayable. Performance versus Quality is worth it here.
;Pretty weather
:Have OFF. Performance will drop a great deal when it starts to rain, but on will make weather look nicer, but weather is really nice anyway so it´s up to you.
==Controls==
;Invert mouse
:Inverts the y-axis of the mouse control. No impact on performance whatsoever. Your own preference.
==Sound Tab==
[[Image:WurmClient-Options-Sound-Tab.png|right|]]
;Sound Engine
:Choose from None (silent) and Software. This will cause sounds to be played for certain actions. The base.jar includes only sounds for walking and water but there are some custom sound , if you have downloaded the optional packs available and the number of sounds is continually being increased. Your own preferance. ON and you will hear when someone is walking near, water running and alot of other noisespreference.
==Advanced Tab==
;Debug Mode
:Turn this off, it's mostly used by the developers to find bugs.
;Release opengl OpenGL context each frame
:If you use LWJGL renderer, and/or have an ATI graphics card, you will want to enable this for a boost in fps.
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