Is there any way to disable the dynamic lighting effects?

[Ciderpress]

I play p99 on an old winxp machine, that for it's time was more than capable of running EQ smoothly (during pop). P99 runs fine most of the time, unless there are more than about 20 players around. The cumulative dynamic lighting (the thing that makes the entire EC tunnel look like an atomic bomb is going off in it), is absolutely awful on my GPU. Ditto for raids, or even scout rolls. FPS absolutely tanks and the temp goes up to max. This is ridiculous for a game this old. Yes the machine I play on is old, but this same machine ran live EQ perfectly fine through the PoP era. This problem is specific to P99.

I'm certain it's the dynamic lighting. Turning spell effects off, or clip plane down, or yada yada has absolutely no effect. This only happens when a large number of players holding powerful light sources all congregate together. Raiding is basically impossible because I'm averaging literally about 5fps in TOV during a big raid.

Please for the love of god tell me there is some way to disable these blinding lighting effects. I appreciated them when green first launched, and you could see little glows from people holding torches, but it's just ridiculous at a raid.

[Kavious]

When you first load the client there is an Options button before you login. From there you can change the Dynamic Lighting and some other settings

https://i.imgur.com/MHmVEf6.png

[Ciderpress]

When you first load the client there is an Options button before you login. From there you can change the Dynamic Lighting and some other settings

https://i.imgur.com/MHmVEf6.png

Thanks but I tried that. Everyone holding a lightsource is still glowing.

I know it's the lightsources because whenever there's a big wipe in TOV and there are a ton of naked players standing around outside the portal, my performance is fine. The missing factor is that they aren't all holding their light-source flagged gear.

[Kavious]

Have you tried dgvoodoo? I know it helps solve a lot of issues but not sure about this one specifically

[Ciderpress]

No I haven't, I'll give it a shot if it's xp compatible. Video card is an Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT if that's relevant, and actually let me revise my previous post cause this card came out in 2007, and I was playing live EQ in 2007 on it just fine, including raiding.

IIRC, the way lightsources are handled on p99 was a bit of a hackjob when green was being developed to get player-held lightsources to behave in the titanium client more like they did in 1999. Which again I appreciate, but the implementation is not very well optimized to say the least. When there are a lot of players around, certain wall textures become completely white or neon-blue, especially in velious zones.

[Belambic]

There's also an option in the ALT-O dialogs to limit the spell effects.

[Ciderpress]

There's also an option in the ALT-O dialogs to limit the spell effects.

Oh I've tried that. The spell effects in EQ are not gpu intensive at all, turning them off is more for uncluttering the screen than for performance. My issue is coming from the way p99 is coded, specifically the way light sources are handled by the client.

[Nasheed]

I play p99 on an old winxp machine, that for it's time was more than capable of running EQ smoothly (during pop). P99 runs fine most of the time, unless there are more than about 20 players around. The cumulative dynamic lighting (the thing that makes the entire EC tunnel look like an atomic bomb is going off in it), is absolutely awful on my GPU. Ditto for raids, or even scout rolls. FPS absolutely tanks and the temp goes up to max. This is ridiculous for a game this old. Yes the machine I play on is old, but this same machine ran live EQ perfectly fine through the PoP era. This problem is specific to P99.

I'm certain it's the dynamic lighting. Turning spell effects off, or clip plane down, or yada yada has absolutely no effect. This only happens when a large number of players holding powerful light sources all congregate together. Raiding is basically impossible because I'm averaging literally about 5fps in TOV during a big raid.

Please for the love of god tell me there is some way to disable these blinding lighting effects. I appreciated them when green first launched, and you could see little glows from people holding torches, but it's just ridiculous at a raid.

ok ok so this is how you do it 100% and the devs might hotfix this at some point but i dbout it, first you go into the eqclient .ini file and disable dynamic lighting, change the TRUE to a FALSE. After that you log into the game and stop at char select, then you go back to the log in and log in again... after that dynamic lights are turned off. You have to do this every single time.

[Ciderpress]

ok ok so this is how you do it 100% and the devs might hotfix this at some point but i dbout it, first you go into the eqclient .ini file and disable dynamic lighting, change the TRUE to a FALSE. After that you log into the game and stop at char select, then you go back to the log in and log in again... after that dynamic lights are turned off. You have to do this every single time.

Yeah quick update: It finally worked, I'm in EC tunnel and it doesn't look like a giant glowing oasis from a distance anymore. Nice smooth framerate and no wild gpu temp increase. I changed the option in that menu Kavious mentioned but I think you need to restart the client after making any changes in that menu pre-login, which I wasn't doing. I also /exit every time I quit the game which I think bypasses the step where it remembers settings, cause I've noticed that when setting up the UI on new toons. As soon as I changed the option in the settings, logged in, camped out properly back to char select and exited the client the normal way, it's now working! Didn't have to edit the .ini

Thank you much for the help all who responded this is a game changer (pardon the pun).

EDIT: Welp, nevermind. I just logged in a different toon, and light sources were still off cause my epic wasn't glowing. Then I gated to bind and now it's back.... how does this work lol.

Just tried what you suggested (logging in as far as char select, going back to log in, then logging in again) and it worked. Seems like you can change that setting from the menu Kav mentioned rather than having to edit the .ini file, but doing the double log-in thing does seem to work.