Config Settings/In-game Config Update

[Delsus]

So for 2.0 we will beable to change all settings ingame?

That will be awsome, there is nothing worse than constantly restarting the client when you are trying to tune out lag.

[Halvaard_Vidan]

Macro activated graphics options, (Yes, please!)

[Soukyuu]

Rhianu, I am not against them moving everything inside the client, I think you misunderstood that. I want to have BOTH. There are enough f2p games who have the possibility to change settings from the patcher/login UI AND ingame.

I agree with you on having less clicks = better.

Oh and I do - preconfiguring before starting that is, and I'm sure there are enough people who do the same.

[Raldo]

Regardless of whether the configuration options are available in-game or not, you need to always, always, always have a configuration available outside of the game itself. If a player cannot get the game to run at all, how are they supposed to change things in order to fix it?

[Fensfield]

Regardless of whether the configuration options are available in-game or not, you need to always, always, always have a configuration available outside of the game itself. If a player cannot get the game to run at all, how are they supposed to change things in order to fix it?

Beh, I should have thought to say that and all o.O

Cities XL 2011 did that to me a while ago - it got locked at a refresh rate my monitor couldn't display so I couldn't see in-game to fix the bloody thing. I had a right game repairing that.

[Soukyuu]

Oops. Point and good idea. Sorry I started writing this before noticing your post (or, hell, this whole page >.>) so.. yeah, goodo, won't be posting on the argument again

Eh, I wasn't telling everyone to stop posting about this, just saying I don't want to fill pages and pages with the same back and forth discussion.

If a player cannot get the game to run at all, how are they supposed to change things in order to fix it?

Good point. I remember some people had to turn shadows off to be able to run FFXIV at all (game would crash otherwise)

[Fensfield]

Here's one more point:

Sometimes, I like to really crank up the settings in order to make an extreme-quality screenshot. I'll go in the external program, raise everything, pop into the game and slog as quick as I can through the massive framerate drops to avoid hurting the GPU, take the shot, pop out and fix it again.

Not only would only having the option to make the changes inside the client have the potential to hurt the hardware by meaning more time spent running with too-high settings (remember, high drawing quality can cause overheat damage; it's a future-proofing feature after all - although this is assuming 2.0 keeps using future-proof stuff like that), with the framerate crash and possibility of the game force-closing, it might actually be impossible to undo the quality upgrade again from inside the game.

Even setting aside serious problems, in this scenario not having a full-featured external config utility is bloody inconvenient.

But then I guess we're coming back to Raldo's point about being able to fix any option from outside the client being important, for the off-chance that a quirk of your system might lead to a normally innocuous change preventing your seeing or manipulating the in-client config menu.

PSO2 Alpha 2 has an external config program...

Thanks for confirming that. Now.. How come you got into the alpha?! T-T