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Thread: Tuesday Tips Apri 26th Game Options
Each week, Q-3PO started a thread for you to share game tips with fellow players. Tuesday Tips will continue on with that tradition so be sure to join in and add your helpful tip.
Do you have a little known command you use all the time?
A cool place to visit?
A trick (non-exploit) to getting more out of the game? Share it here.
New players and veterans alike don't always take advantage of the "Game Options" menu on the launchpad. Once you log into the game, the "Game Options" button will become available and there are 6 tabs of options that can be very useful.
Tab 1 - Information
This tab lists all the information about your computer including your drivers, memory and other useful technical references. There is also a a button so you can quickly copy this information to the clipboard.
Tab 2 - Graphics
This tab contains a host of graphics options that can be helpful including the ability to run the game in a windowed mode (though it takes a lot of system resources to do that), along with a variety of rendering options.
Tab 3 - Sound
This tab can allow you to enable and disable your audio as well as choose the source for game sound. This is especially helpful for musicians and technophiles out there with more than one sound card.
Tab 4 - Game
The game tab has a checkbox for those that want to turn off the opening animation sequence as well as a drop down window for choice of joysticks and language options.
Tab 5 - Advanced
The advanced tab does indeed have advanced options, but in particular, if you check "Disable World Preloading", you can increase the performance of the game on some computers.
Tab 6 - Debug
This can be an especially helpful tab if you are having technical difficulties. Click the "configure" button to change the options. There are options for crash logs, character ID, hardware information and even a flag so that it makes it easy for you to flag yourself for customer service and tech support to contact you. Lastly, there is even a button so that you can easily reset all of your in-game options if you need to.
Do you have a useful tip that you want to share with your fellow Star Wars Galaxies players? E-mail it to SWGTips and if we select the tip we'll post it as the Tuesday Tip and give you the credit! Send us the character name and server you'd like us to include if we post the tip.
Check out last week's tips 
The terrible design you are forcing on us bad enough without having to look at those ugly anti-immersive icons.
Message Edited by ElfDruid on 04-26-2005 07:09 PM
I'd really like to respectfully ask that we get put in the picture a bit more, seeing as we are the paying playerbase.
I love SWG and I fully support the CU - just only if it is finished...
Please - anyone else that agrees, QFE this post.
Thanks in advance TH
Message Edited by john_p on 04-27-2005 12:11 AM
jphillips1868 wrote:
Why don't you give us the option to go back to the old interface.
The terrible design you are forcing on us bad enough without having to look at those ugly anti-immersive icons.
Anti-immersive? Have you looked at them? Like "Head Shot" being a pic of a ST getting shot in the head? Ormaybe "Cripple Shot" being a AT-AT toppling over from getting shot in the leg? You mean those anti-immersive icons?
Look a little closer next time. 
The devs can't please everyone.
Message Edited by Rypht on 04-26-2005 04:20 PM
Message Edited by Cianhydle on 04-26-2005 04:27 PM