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The options panel has five tabs: General, Graphics, Sound, Control and Interface.

Contents

[edit] General

General Settings Tab

The general tab contains settings for the following: text language, audio language, chat filter level, and damage text size. You can enable or disable the following controls: mouse walking; mouse control of camera; double tap forward to auto-run, backward to flip; double click to attack/interact; show nearby names in PvP; close windows when pressing escape key; show skill tips on skills bar; show skill tips on effect monitors; show text in skill floaters; auto-target foes when there is no chosen target; auto-target NPCs, items and interactive objects when there is no chosen target; fade distant name tags; and show concise skill descriptions. The chat filter removes words commonly considered offensive.

  • Changing the audio language during a mission may not change the spoken language of the cutscenes in that instance of the mission.


[edit] Graphics

Graphics Settings Tab

The graphics tab allows you to set screen resolution, refresh rate, interface size, anti-aliasing, visual quality, terrain quality, reflections, texture quality, shadow quality, shader quality, and full screen gamma. You can enable or disable wait for vertical sync, post-process effects, and best texture filtering. Finally, you can direct the Guild Wars client to auto-detect your graphics card.


[edit] Sound

Sound Settings Tab

The sound tab allows you to set the volume for music, background audio, effects, and user interface. Additionaly you can mute the sound when Guild Wars is in the background, set the audio quality, and enable or disable the use of 3D audio hardware.


[edit] Control

Control Settings Tab

The control tab is used to assign functions to keys. Functions are divided into Action, Camera, Chat, Inventory, Miscellaneous, Movement, Panel and Targeting sections.


[edit] Interface

Interface Settings Tab

The interface tab is used to enable, disable, move and resize the following user interface elements: Chat, Compass, Damage Monitor, District List, Performance Monitor, Effects Monitor, Experience Bar, Mission Progress, Dialogue 1, Dialogue 2, Mission Goals, Hints, Notifications, Skill Bar, Skill Monitor, Upkeep Monitor, Skill Warmup, Energy Bar, Health Bar, Target Display, Trade Button, and Weapon Bar.


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