Wasn't quite sure where to put this post, but anyways I remember we used to be able to change our graphics settings via the .DEF files. I have tried to change them, since my PC is way over spec for the game...but alas, as soon as I log into Istaria the changes I made are overwritten (by the patcher?).
Why would I want to adjust these properties, you might ask? Because they give me a very diverse set of tools to work with to customize my game. The biggest things are the LOD for the character models/textures. I am positive my PC can run with the higher LOD on all characters, without the textures and model swapping as I get closer, etc. In fact, this process doesn't actually help my newer hardware at all...it actually causes it to run slower. I know this to be true, because years ago when I adjusted said settings and they didn't reset on game launch the game would run so great! Without the constant load/reload of textures as I moved my gameplay was very smooth. I was just wondering if there was a way I could adjust these at my liesure without having them overwritten when I launch Istaria?
Aside from that, I can say that I have Istaria running fairly well as it is on a Vista 64 bit operating system. Good job with that devs, I understand it was giving people problems. Here are my PC specs, if it helps anyone:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
ASUS P5B Motherboard
4 GB DDR2
Vista Ultimate 64
ATI RadeonHD3870 512 DDR3
250 GB SATA HD
Vista's pagefile is set to 'system managed' and I run no other programs in the background while running Istaria.