For anyone having issues with neverwinter lagging there have been file structure changes to the game that aren't addressed properly by patching.
TO FIX THIS DO THE FOLLOWING:
navigate to these two file locations and delete the "GamePref.pref" file in each.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Perfect World Entertainment\Neverwinter_en\localdata
C:\Program Files (x86)\Perfect World Entertainment\Neverwinter_en\Neverwinter\Live\localdata
restart the client and force verify the game. You will have to reset your display settings completely. First set your display size and set the mode to window maximized. This change may make your mouse not move over a portion of the game screen. If this happens, simply ALT+F4 to close the client and on restarting the game you will be able to continue with adjusting your graphics. Adjust to taste or system recommendations.
On a further note. The main settings to turn down before others are in order as follows:
1. World and texture detail distance- rendering is bubble based. small changes in radial rendering distance are MASSIVE increases to hardware requirements. Before reducing quality of anything else, turn these down one level at a time together.
2. Physical debris objects. It's literally what it says. Ground trash that you kick. Its a massive increase to render processing. Turn this down to between 8-16 for any setup. Its just not needed to have turned up.
3. Lastly, shadows. turning shadows down allows you to leave vivid imagery turned up as shadows are essentially a full secondary render. It's the smallest sacrifice to visual quality.
All of these things will amount to a far better quality of game. **you can turn back on mission tracker after you return to game if you disabled this visual element.** Enjoy.
Sometimes you're your own best teacher. ~Me
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For those who installed using steam like I did, the GamePref.pref file is in the directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Cryptic Studios\Neverwinter\Live\Localdata
I have not seen any copy of that file name. I assume I do not have this particular problem.
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****UPDATE****
Deeper investigation of the client launcher has located multiple errors that need to be addressED. The arc launcher is 100% clean, the client launcher is not. My apologies to kitkathd, there are in fact errors in the application that need to be corrected! (this duplicate file error should still be checked and fixed)
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