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1. Go to http://d-h.st/0HR and download this archive :

Extract the contents, select UnparkCPU.exe and Run as Admin :

> click on Check Status and wait till it finishes

> click on Unpark All and wait till it finishes


(this app unlocks all the CPU cores so the Tera Online Client will use the CPU properly)



2. Go to TERA install folder > /TERA/Client/S1Game/Config :

> select all files from "S1Editor" to "S1UI" and delete them

> launch TERA Online, log in and click Play, wait for the game to launch, it takes a while because the client will

rebuild all those config files you deleted earlier and set them to the correct values automatically.

Once in game don`t click Play yet, instead go to Options and set the following settings as specified below :

UISettings > UI Customization > check Display Performance (FPS)

Video > Resolution Settings > check FullScreen

Display > check Auto adjust effect levels

        > Effects Level > 3

        > Lurid Display > 1

Graphics Quality :

Presets > 4

Texture Quality :

Adjust Texture Resolution > 1

Character Quality : 

PC View Distance > 4

PC Limit > Up to 50

Character > 3

Shadow > 0

Background Quality : 

Distant Environment Level > 3

Landscape > 2

Aerial > 1

Effects :

Effect Distance > 3

Background Quality > 1

Background Distance > 3

check Travel Effects

Other : 

Lighting Enrichment > 1

Real Time Optimization > 0

click Apply and OK

Quit Game.




(these settings do not in any way make your game experience worse as far as graphic quality goes, most of the settings don`t really 

change much with them set on higher levels or at lower levels except lowering some of your FPS if set on higher levels)

Personally i find these settings to be in perfect balance performance/quality wise.


Download my modified S1Engine.ini from here > http://d-h.st/1Xj

Open it, select all text and copy it > go to TERA/Client/S1Game/Config >

Open S1Engine.ini, select all text and paste the text from the modified ini file you copied earlier.Save and make S1Engine read-only!


Then go to : http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html and make the limit to 10MB, then go to the next tab, to Global Security Settings, Edit Locations, Add Location, browse for folder, go to TERA install folder and browse for TERA/Client/Binaries/TERA.exe, Open and Confirm.



(The UI is controlled by Flash and it may fix some issues)


For nVIDIA users : 310.90 driver is just fine.

For AMD users : make sure you have the latest driver installed.

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nVIDIA users : 

Open nVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Global Settings > Use High performance nVIDIA processor > Apply

Go to Physix Menu > choose GT...(whatever nVIDIA card you have) > Apply

Go back to Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Add > Browse for TERA/Client/Binaries/TERA.exe, choose High Performance nVIDIA processor and Apply.


NOTE : If it`s stuck on integrated graphics do this :


Download nVIDIA Inspector from here > http://d-h.st/JwJ

Extract contents to a new folder > run nVIDIAInspector as admin, at the end of the row where "Driver Version" is, you have a button, click it.

You will see Profiles in the upper part of the screen, search for Tera and select it, scroll down to "Other" category and find "Enable Application for Optimus",

select it and change it to "SHIM_RENDERING_MODE_ENABLE" under SettingValue column > Apply changes and exit program.

Now go back to Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Add > Browse for TERA/Client/Binaries/TERA.exe, choose High Performance nVIDIA processor and Apply.

Done!



[YOU MAY NEED TO REINSTALL THE DRIVER AND TRY THE WHOLE THING WITH NVIDIA INSPECTOR AGAIN IF IT DOESNT WORK BECAUSE FOR SOME PEOPLE IT`S TRICKY TO GET IT TO WORK FROM FIRST TRY]



nVIDIA CP > Manage 3D Settings > Global Settings :

Ambient Occlusion > Performance

Anisotropic Filtering > Off

Antialiasing - Gamma correction > On

Antialiasing - Setting > None

Antialiasing Transparency > Off

CUDA - GPUs > All

Maximum pre-rendered frames > 3

Multi-display/mixed-GPU-acceleration > Single display performance

Power management mode > Prefer maximum performance

Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization > Off

Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias > Clamp

Texture filtering- Quality > Quality

Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization > On

Threaded optimization > On

Triple Buffering > On

Vertical sync > Force On



Apply settings > Reboot PC > Play the game xD






P.S. If you encounter problems such as screen freezes or any video glitches, all you need to do is, delete the config files mentioned in the guide, log in into the

game, do the video settings mentioned in the guide again, exit the game, overwrite text from the modified S1Engine file into original file from the client.Done!


>or you can just try the game without the modified S1Engine config file if you think it`s not going so well with it<


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Cheers ~