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Tera Short Optimization Guide *NVIDIA USERS*
By Dante Alighieri
Short Optimization Guide for Nvidia Users
   
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Category: Modding or Configuration
Languages: English
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6 May, 2015 @ 5:45pm
11 May, 2015 @ 5:18am
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Guide Index
Overview
Nvidia Control Panel Settings 
In-Game Setting Changes 
Ini File Setting Changes 
Authors Note 
Comments
Nvidia Control Panel Settings
Just go into your Nvidia Control Panel, find Set PhysX Configuration - GPU GTX-xxx
*To get to your Control Panel right click your desktop and it should be one of the options*

Then Manage 3D Settings -> Add -> Desktop -> Tera online.

Scroll down and find Vertical Sync - Force On
Triple Buffering - On

Threaded Optimization - On

Trilinear Optimalization - Off

Texture Filtering - Anisotropic sample opt... - Off

Power Managment mode - Prefer Maximum Performance

Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames - 3 (UE evolves around DirectX 9 which is recommendation for this to work )

Antialiasing Transparency - Multisample

Antialiasing Setting - 2x

Antialiasing Mode - Override any application settings ( this will use your preset values from the Nvidia Control Panel, rather then the Applications values, allow for advanced controlling )

Anisotropic Filtering - (choose 4x or 8x, 16x doesn't improve detail)

Texture Filtering - Negative LOD bias - Allow

In-Game Setting Changes
Due to the fact that the game renders stuff below you, and etc. We need to lower render distances. It wont affect almost anything, trust me. Expect increasing your FPS...
PC View Distance - 4
Distant Environment Detail - 4
Landscape - 3
Efect Distance - 3
Background Distance - 3

Rest maxed out ( just the Distance stuff )

Ini File Setting Changes
People with Low fps problems try this fix


1.) Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\TERA\Client\S1Game\Config
2.) Make a backup of the S1Engine file.
3.) Open up S1Engine
4.) Press F3 to use the search function to easily find the following lines and change them to the following settings.

Find:
UseMinimalNVIDIADriverShaderOptimization=True
Change To:
UseMinimalNVIDIADriverShaderOptimization=False

Find:
bDisablePhysXHardwareSupport=True
Change To:
bDisablePhysXHardwareSupport=False

After that close the file, rightclick it, select properties and check the box that says Read Only, press ok and do the same for all other S1 files in that folder so nothing gets changed automatically.
Authors Note
Hello everyone i hope that this guide helped you out cause it helped me with my issues, but this guide wasnt created by me im simply sharing it with the Steam Community ^_^

Check Out The Full Guide Here:

http://www.sinisterswarm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16086
48 Comments
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Shaun 1 Feb @ 1:10am 
That is because TERA shutdown on PC a long time ago, it is no longer available. The Korean Developers abandoned the game.

I'm surprised this forum for the game is still even here, it should've been deleted when the game got shutdown.
Jesse 1 Feb @ 1:04am 
long shot here dose anyone know how to play Tera. cause when i try, i click play and in a few seconds i get this . Host_WindowLoadTimeout .
Shaun 18 Dec, 2019 @ 9:06pm 
Just so you know "Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames" no longer exists.
Johnny Mayhews 9 Dec, 2019 @ 6:04pm 
I use a Acer predator laptop 1060 nvidia / i7 8th gen, and I always found threaded optimization to be very terrible (especially when playing fallout titles) Of course since bethesda's titles (being the cpu makes up like 80 percent of the graphics processes) are based on an ancient relic I could see why it wouldn't matter much here.... food for thought if you are experiencing errors running background applications. :steamfacepalm:
loveisdethslove 24 Feb, 2019 @ 5:44pm 
could someone send me a controller setup for tera online my controller style is xbox if someone could help that thanks:steamhappy:
What? 22 Jan, 2019 @ 8:13am 
Triple Buffering only works for games using Opengl. If you want to use the similar for D3D games (games that use dx9, dx10 etc) you need to use "fast". Which is under Vertical Synch
$crim 26 Apr, 2018 @ 6:09pm 
i just followed everything and it still the same for me btw i have a gtx 1060 pls hhelp :(
76561198060885611 19 Feb, 2018 @ 8:47pm 
is there a guide for use with the shitty amd or ati
Léon de Béaumont 6 Feb, 2018 @ 5:23am 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c705inwth5523vo/Nvidia.rar?dl=0
Try this guys and it will help you great.

*Note:

Only for i5 quad core, (GTX 1050 ti 4GB or 1060 6GB configuration), and with MOBO RAM of 8GB.
FaiR 22 Dec, 2017 @ 12:34am 
any one can help, tera not runing progress, just showing me 0% from last night, i ask gm, they just say that no log in proberm, i already try verrify and reinstall, but stil the same probem