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==Introduction==
This page will explain the configuration options available in the Wurm Client login screen. Currently this is just a placeholder until people fill it in. Please split Ideally the options into sections that match the tabs in the login screen. Ideally there screenshots should also be some annotated screenshots of the various screens that would be hosted on the Wiki site, ; 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 recomendations.
[[Image:WurmClient-Options-Resolution-Picker.png|right]]
;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 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 alittle more performance, not really noticable unless on an old computer; this may depend on your graphics card.
;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.
:Set to OFF. Very pretty, makes the game look great, but has a large effect on performance. Makes the game look...well, more lifelike, look at the sun and you will not see much :P
;Pretty weather
:Have OFF. Performance will drop a great deal when it starts to rain, but on will make weather look more nicenicer, but weather is really nice anyways anyway so it is not neededit´s up to you.
==Sound Tab==
:looks nicer but takes more video ram if enabled. Turn it OFF for a performance gain, but on if you want it prettier. If you have a lot of videoram use it! The gain in quality is great.
;Use PBuffers
:Use OpenGL (http://www.opengl.org/) hardware pixel buffers (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/registry/ARB/wgl_pbuffer.txt) when rendering the display. Using PBuffers should give better performance as there is less data to be transferred between the CPU and graphics card. However, some graphics cards implement PBuffers in such a way that Wurm can crash. If this happens try disabling PBuffer support. Look in your console.log and check the "PBuffer support" and "PBuffer inited" lines. Refer to [[Client Log Messages ]] for details of other console.log messages.
;Terrain bumpmapping
:Gives the [[:Category:Terrain|terrain tiles ]] a slight 3D look. Compare the performance with this turned ON and OFF! The performance drop is may be so large that it may not be worth it for you.
;Use occlusion culling
:Will give a performance boost on some computers, mainly if you're inside buildings or behind larger objects. It spares the rendering of objects you can't see. On computers where it doesn't work, turn it OFF for a small performance gain.
