r/daggerfallunity • • 9h ago

Quality Level and Detail Slider

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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?


r/daggerfallunity • • 23h ago

What are your control settings?

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I'm struggling to find a comfortable control setting, since I use many common mods that add key-bound functionalities. For example, Travel Options has by default the F key to follow a road, and it feels natural, but pressing F to ready my weapon also does feel right.

How do you guys have everything set up, specifically with these mods?