Most performance-friendly FH settings?

[TheGreatMe]

*pokes head out of hiding awkwardly* Hello all~

The stupid egocentric fox that calls himself "The Great Me" is completely useless with the kinds of issues I'm having, so I'm crawling out of my hermit hole for some assistance. I was able to run the old FH just fine on my old little laptop, barring Bonfire a.k.a "Lagfire" Island at its busiest times, but now I find the problem of massive lag spikes with the new maps.

When I'm facing the center of the maps from the borders (basically the majority of the maps) at any given time, the lag is especially bad, I'd say no better than 2-5 fps. I suspect a possible distance-rendering+object-rendering issue as the new maps have a lot more objects now than the old maps ever did. I've already messed around with the settings but haven't had much luck even running Light version.

What would be the absolute best run settings for a lower end computer?

[Hakumi]

Try turning your water reflections off along with shadows(?) I could be thinking of a different game with shadows.
Also, you could try changing your rendering systems or finding a less laggy spot?

[ArcticGalaxy]

You can also try lowering your viewing distance. It worked for me in the old FeralHeart.

[greenart6]

I'd try changing some of the options to reduce lag, including:

~ Turn off water reflection (helps A LOT)
~ Turn the view distance down to 0
~ Turn off nametags if you can, and I'm not sure if it helps but try reducing the size of nametags as well.

You could also try:

~ Closing other programs on your computer
~ Changing your rendering system
~ Try clicking the little arrow in the chat box and unchecking a few of the chats, like local, movie, etc.
~ If you're in a custom map, trying deleting the weather files to reduce lag. Though you can't really do that if you're in public maps, it still reduces lag in private ones!

Hope this helps! c:

[TheGreatMe]

Yep, I already toggled off chat alerts on movies and players entering/leaving.

Somehow I seem to have missed "Water Reflections" as even an option while in-game (the lag not letting me scroll, probably). I toggled it off in the menu screen and it did wonders for performance. I believe I was running OpenGL before as that ran the old FH better, but now it seems to have reversed which one performs better with the new update.

Thanks for the help! I don't seem to be having much difficulty with it now, but we'll see as I run around a bit more.

[FreakAccident]

Get a new computer.

[TheGreatMe]

Get a new computer.

Well if you're volunteering to buy one for me then sure I'll just get a new computer lol

[CrazyCatLady]

There is also a Light version of the Updated Game that you can download. It just has lower resolution textures so it makes things easier for your computer to run the game. Just reinstall and there will be a Light option to choose on the installer. But if changing the settings has worked for you then I wouldn't mess with it ;]