Please, for the love of God, allow us to turn off Dynamic Lighting

[Axlrose]

Inside the eqclient configuration file is this particular line -

ShowDynamicLights=TRUE

If this particular line was changed to FALSE, then could that possibly alleviate some of the issues people have noted until a proper patch is released? Or is the dynamic lighting server side and this line is meaningless?

Interesting aspects within this file the further I look through it.

[Croco]

Originally Posted by Axlrose [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Inside the eqclient configuration file is this particular line -

ShowDynamicLights=TRUE

If this particular line was changed to FALSE, then could that possibly alleviate some of the issues people have noted until a proper patch is released? Or is the dynamic lighting server side and this line is meaningless?

Interesting aspects within this file the further I look through it.

From everything I've tried and everything I've heard from guildies nothing you can do client side will work. It's been forced on server side.

It's garbage. Please let us turn it off.

[Erati]

Originally Posted by Croco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Please let us turn it off.

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[solleks]

side effect of dynamic lighting enforcement cutting down zerg? might be a bonus?

[Erati]

Originally Posted by solleks [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

side effect of dynamic lighting enforcement cutting down zerg? might be a bonus?

Not exactly when its only around 25 people to begin lag issues due to the lighting.

Its causing one of the smoothest gameplay games to be choppy, laggy and feel clunky ( even more so than it classically is )

[Baler]

Don't worry. When Green/Teal get to raiding

9001 FUCK DYNAMIC LIGHTING FPS/LAG

threads will be made.

[Erati]

Originally Posted by Baler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Don't worry. When Green/Teal get to raiding

9001 FUCK DYNAMIC LIGHTING FPS/LAG

threads will be made.

truth

lag is slowly creeping into the Green experience so its right around corner.

[Master Roshi]

I blame PGE

[Izmael]

On a computer I used to run P99 at a sustained 99+ FPS forever, I barely reach 15 now.

It's a huge pain and pretty much restricts me to solo or duo. Grouping at popular spots lags too much for comfort.

I don't understand why this is being forced on us. Dark is good but not if it breaks the damn game.

[Danth]

It's being forced because without the dynamic lighting you'd have no light sources and hence couldn't see. Some zones would be pitch black. You could certainly argue with the notion of forcing a feature that's not fully fleshed-out and perhaps not completely ready for primetime in which case I might be inclined to agree. I like the classic darkness as much as anyone else, but I have my doubts that it's worth severe performance hits on a 2005-era client that by rights should run on basically any working PC out there. As soon as a player obtains decent light sources and/or vision buffs the fancy darkness/etc becomes largely moot, but the performance problems remain. That's a questionable trade.

Danth