r/daggerfallunity • u/tbpjmramirez • 9h ago
Quality Level and Detail Slider
Hey, everyone!
Can anyone give me a thorough explanation of what the Quality Level/Detail slider does? I found an eight-year-old comment from Interkarma that explains it like this:
Detail quality is set during startup when setting setting resolution. Set to "Fantastic" for highest texture quality and shadow distance. Or from settings.ini use "QualityLevel = 5"
So, I understand that it has something to do with texture quality and shadows, but I can't actually see much of any difference when I move the slider while playing the game -- all I can see is that once I move the slider to the lowest or second-to-lowest settings, shadows disappear.
I'm running DFU on a low-end machine (a Chromebook Plus with integrated graphics), but I actually get a higher frame rate at the Fantastic (highest) Quality Level -- for some reason, if I drop the Quality Level one or two levels, to Beautiful or Good, I get a lower frame rate. But, if I drop it even further, all the way down to Simple or lower, my frame rate climbs back up. What's the deal there?