Q: Regarding modifying TESO's client INI to improve graphics quality to the client

Paske

While im confident there is no EULA breach, since you are merely changing GFX settings and thats about it, I am a paranoid person.

Lately mods have been banning people left and right, so dont want to be banned for simply wanting to upgrade my visuals.

On ESO Reddit I found this fun guide:

***GUIDE HAS BEEN TRUNCATED FOR SECURITY REASONS, NO URL WILL BE DISCLOSED *****


SET MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS "-3"

SET HIGH_RESOLUTION_SHADOWS "1"

SET COLOR_CORRECTION "1"

SET GraphicsDriver.7 "D3D9" | "D3D11" | "OPENGL"

SET SimultaneousCharacterLoadLimit.2 "10"

SET SimultaneousCharacterDestroyLimit "10"

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My question is - is it bannable to modify .ini file that is simply a TXT file that ultimately tells the game how to graphics ?

I know logic dictates it actually doesn't change anything game wise, but like I said before, mods have been ban happy and Im in no mood to be banned for something like this.

And before you ask, no, I did not try it. So cant really say if it works. From what people are saying it does wonders, screenshots confirm this. But I would like a confirmation from "green" before proceeding.

Saerydoth

No, this is no more bannable than adjusting your graphics settings in-game is bannable.

Paske

Saerydoth wrote: »

No, this is no more bannable than adjusting your graphics settings in-game is bannable.

I came to same conclusion, since its only reasonable.

But maybe ...
Just maybe Zenimax doesn`t see it as such.

Being paranoid here

The game is just too damn good to risk it.

Loxy37

At the moment, I'm too scared to even fart while playing unless I offend someone and get banned. It makes it worse that people aren't even told why. Lets hope its all settled come the time when people need to cough up some cash again to play.

Kaspar

Loxy37 wrote: »

At the moment, I'm too scared to even FART while playing unless I offend someone and get banned. It makes it worse that people aren't even told why. Lets hope its all settled come the time when people need to cough up some cash again to play.

/reported: You farted. Seriously though editing the INI in a Bethesda game is pretty much standard behavior although I haven't tried changing anything for this game yet. I did notice a line in there Set Simple_Shaders "0" and wondered if setting this to "1" might help people who are getting problems with not being able to generate the ShaderCache.cooked file properly or the Shader Model 3 required error. I have no way to test it though since I'm not experiencing either of these problems.

P.S.
I just did some quick testing and discovered that SET Simple_Shaders is set to "1" only if the Minimum and Low presets are selected. Once you use the Medium preset it changes to "0". In the UserSettings.txt file that is available for copying from the Technical Support thread the SET Simple_Shader value is set to "0". Perhaps changing this value to "1" could help those with shader problems preventing the game from loading even after copy/pasting the INI file to the Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\Live folder.

P.S.S.
I had beans for dinner last night.

Saerydoth

Loxy37 wrote: »

At the moment, I'm too scared to even fart while playing unless I offend someone and get banned. It makes it worse that people aren't even told why. Lets hope its all settled come the time when people need to cough up some cash again to play.

I've been with MMO's long enough to know what is happening, even if they aren't saying. The people getting banned are getting hit by detection methods put in place in a hurry to combat gold sellers. I don't think Zenimax was properly prepared for gold sellers...I don't think they really had a plan (they should have, based on what WOW has had to deal with, but that's water under the bridge now).

They're trying to get things that will detect and stamp out these people in a hurry. Most gold selling is done from compromised accounts, "selling" gold that was stolen from compromised accounts, and the spam is very harmful to the game. Innocent people are getting hit in the crossfire by doing simple trading that "looks" suspicious at a first glance.

I have seen at least one person get this overturned on appeal, and get 7 days free time credited. I think we need to be patient and give them time to get a proper detection system in place. Blizzard has had YEARS to fine tune theirs, and they STILL sometimes accidentally ban innocent people for things like trading gold to friends and guildmates.

The main issue I see is, communication with the people who put in appeals absolutely NEEDS to be improved. I'm not saying they need to tell people what they were banned for (that would give away detection methods), but they need to get a team on this and make these super high priority. It may not need to stay this way indefinitely, but at least until the birthing pains of the game are ironed out.

Kaspar

Bump for edit above. Marked line in INI under spoiler.

Spoiler:

SET MouseRawInput "1"
SET MouseSensitivityFirstPerson "0.50000000"
SET MouseSensitivityThirdPerson "1.28999996"
SET MouseSmoothing "0"
SET InvertMouseWheel "1"
SET InvertMouseY "1"
SET InvertMouseX "1"
SET CachedRLREnabled "1"
SET CachedReflectionResolution "4"
SET CachedShadowFiltering "5"
SET ScreenshotFormat "BMP"
SET PregameGammaCheckEnabled "0"
SET HardwareCheckEnabled.2 "0"
SET SUB_SAMPLING "2"
SET REFLECTION_QUALITY_v3 "2"
SET PARTICLE_DENSITY "3"
SET HIGH_RESOLUTION_SHADOWS "1"
SET SHADOWS "4"
SET GAMMA_ADJUSTMENT "112"
SET VIEW_DISTANCE "1.69000006"
SET GPUSmoothingFrames "10"
SET MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS "0"
SET RAIN_WETNESS "1"
SET LENS_FLARE "1"
SET GOD_RAYS_v2 "1"
SET ANTI_ALIASING_v2 "1"
SET AMBIENT_OCCLUSION "1"
SET COLOR_GRADING_v1 "0"
SET BLOOM "1"
SET DEPTH_OF_FIELD "1"
SET COLOR_CORRECTION "1"
SET SOFT_ALPHA "1"
SET DISTORTION "1"
SET CHARACTER_LIGHTING "1"
SET DIFFUSE_2_MAPS "1"
SET DETAIL_MAPS "1"
SET NORMAL_MAPS "1"
SET SPECULAR_MAPS "1"
SET CLUTTER_2D "1"
SET SIMPLE_SHADERS "0" <THIS>
SET WATER_FOAM "1"
SET VSYNC "0"
SET MAX_ANISOTROPY "3"
SET FULLSCREEN_v5 "2"
SET PreferMaximizedWindow "0"
SET FullscreenHeight "0"
SET FullscreenWidth "0"
SET WindowedHeight "768"
SET WindowedWidth "1024"
SET SOUND_ENABLED "1"
SET FOOTSTEPS_VOLUME "50.00000000"
SET FOOTSTEPS_ENABLED "1"
SET SPEAKER_SETUP "0"
SET BACKGROUND_AUDIO "0"
SET VO_VOLUME "70.00000000"
SET VO_ENABLED "1"
SET UI_VOLUME "70.00000000"
SET UI_ENABLED "1"
SET AMBIENT_VOLUME "70.00000000"
SET AMBIENT_ENABLED "1"
SET SFX_VOLUME "70.00000000"
SET SFX_ENABLED "1"
SET MUSIC_VOLUME "70.00000000"
SET MUSIC_ENABLED "1"
SET AUDIO_VOLUME "59.00000000"
SET AUDIO_ENABLED "1"
SET TooltipFilter "2"
SET TooltipNumOptions "2"
SET EffectsLookupViaBinarySearch "1"
SET Language.2 "en"
SET GraphicsDriver.7 "D3D11"
SET PatchDataPath "game:/GameData/"
SET CacheDataPath "machine:/Cache/"
SET GameCameraFirstPerson "0"
SET AcceptedEULAVersion "2"
SET DirectionalDamageIndictorVisibleInThirdPerson "0"
SET CameraFramingTransitionEnabled "1"
SET SkipPregameVideos "0"
SET HasPlayedPregameVideo "1"
SET RangedKillCamera "0"
SET PlayerKillCamera "1"
SET LastMonsterKillCamera "1"
SET MinFrameTime.2 "0.01000000"
SET ParticlesEnabled "1"
SET RequestedNumThreads "0"
SET FreeUnusedGrannyFileSections.2 "0"
SET IsTrustedMachine "1"
SET RememberAccountName "1"
SET AccountName ""
SET LastRealm "NA Megaserver"
SET CustomUIScale "1.00000000"
SET UseCustomUIScale.2 "0"
SET RollDodgeDoubleTapEnabled "1"
SET RollDodgeDoubleTapTimeWindow.2 "185"
SET CameraZoomDistancesSynced "1"
SET SiegeCameraZoomDistance "6.00000000"
SET WeaponsOutCameraZoomDistance "2.00000000"
SET WeaponsSheathedCameraZoomDistance "2.00000000"
SET MaxNetworkWriteBuffer "10485760"
SET MaxNetworkReadBuffer "10485760"