Let me say this right off the bat. I don't have a high end machine.

Basically the min requirements for the game are a 1.8 processor (I have a 2.2)
...and my 3D video card is a Intel Express. (it says in my graphics information center 1695MB Maximum graphics memory - ok, I don't know what that means.)

The game is quite playable, but its a far cry from being smooth. I mean, its a rather nagging framerate, that's even moreso in cities and heavily populated areas.

Anyway, I've been messing around with control panel. Much to my surprise, lower detail doesn't mean better performance. Call me crazy, the game actually runs just a tad bit smoother with some high end numbers.

I really don't understand what makes this run smoother though.
Does anyone have any Control Panel tips? ....or even presets?

They would be much appreciated.

I haven't played with the control panel too much, but one thing I do know is that high lighting settings will really make the game slow down, especially in indoor areas like dungeons. This happens even on very high-end systems. So you might get the best luck out of lowering the lighting settings. Maybe also reduce / turn off shadows.

Oh, and you can probably get away with turning off HDR / Bloom. That's the effect where sunlight will "gleam" off of your armor and weapons. It looks cool, but overall doesn't have a big effect on how the game looks and might provide a performance boost when it's off.

Another thing that often improves performance is lowering the antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. The former will give objects jagged, "pixellated" edges when it's turned off, and turning off the latter will make textures like ground textures look kind of blurry when you view them at a low angle, but they'll also probably give you a big framerate boost when they are lowered or even turned off.

And of course, lower resolutions always help, but running at something lower than your native resolution on a flat panel screen can look kind of crappy.

Thanks for the post!

I'll try out your suggestions when I get off work.

Well, I can't turn the HDR off all the way unless I want to play in grey-scale. Still, it looks pretty good to turn it down the color a little bit.

Don't need it looking like Serious Sam up in here.

I already had the shadows off. I don't have any filtering selected..... which I think is odd, as there's nothing to select.

What's also odd, that I see nothing of resolution or detail settings in the control panel, but if I change them in game, it nulls the control panel settings.

(which I still think my resolution and detail settings are still max - can't figure out how change those without having stupid grass and other graphic shenanigans.)

EDIT: Ok, I've figured out a few things that REALLY help.

Engine.FOV (frame of view) The range is like 41-92, something like that. The lower the number, the less you see. Stepping out of the range list to like 30 gives it that 3/4 view. (sort of like hitting tab once) but takes out a lot of the useless from the sides.

Point being, it's definitely worth a little bit of a blindspot to have a lot bit of smooth.

Also stepped out of bounds with a few other levels. Looks pretty good. Works pretty good.

For the first time, I actually played the game for a while, rather than play it for 5 minutes and try to get better settings. ( ^ - ^)

Well, if it gets you playing, more power to you, 'cause it's all good.

If you're looking to play graphics-intensive games like Two Worlds, I suggest you look into upgrading your video grapics, as the Intel integrated gpu is barely adequate for some of the older games, but they're not nearly enough to play some of today's games, like Fallout 3, etc. Even Oblivion, at @6years old, requires some graphics juice to play smoothly.

GPUs can be had for as little as $40/50 that will get you up and running, with presentable scenery and movement smoothness. Of course, it depends on if your motherboard can accommodate this. Good luck.

Actually I was looking for information on how to fix the "autocenter camera" feature when riding a horse (it makes me nuts - I wanna look sideways when riding) and stumbled upon some console command:

interface.camera.fCameraBetaSpeed=0

Source: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/932336-two-worlds/52303718

The guys there say something about framerate improvement. Maybe it's something for you? But as I don't really know what this command does (at least it doesn't fix my autocenter issue), please know that the default setting (here) was 0.1 (if you wanna switch back later).

To read the current setting one can just type the command without =0

To open the ingame console just press circumflex (that's this ^ strange key)..

Good luck :-)


Oh and by the way: The memory shown to you refers to so called "shared memory" - meaning your graphics card may not have any memory at all, but uses your computers main memory instead.

Apart from that: "Intel Express" sounds like some onboard graphics card. Those cards were never supposed to make big 3D rendering. They are integrated into the mainboard for office applications and to have some basic graphics capability without the need to buy an extra card (for instance in computers where there is no room for a big card).

If you can afford it, I recomment you to buy some used nVidia GeForce 8xxx or 9xxx from eBay. Or even better a GTX if you can spare the money.

// edit:

What the fork? When I hit "reply" there were no replies at all - now after I've posted, there are several? Oh damn.. when searching it only lists the postings including my search query (in this case "center"). Meh, I hope I didn't drop tons of double information now. Sorry guys!