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Date of writing: 25.06.2022

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This month saw the release of the long-awaited multiplayer game called Dark and Light, which was announced about 12 years ago. It is a unique fantasy RPG with elements of survival and construction. In it you can build your own castles, fight monsters, tame dragons, complete interesting quests, participate in boss raids and much, much more. True, for beginners, this project may seem a little difficult. It is for them that we have written this guide.

Bugs and problems encountered at the start

Q: My sky is too light, bright or purple for some reason.
A: You can resolve this issue by rolling back the NVIDIA drivers (download a previous version), setting the sky quality to medium, or lowering all graphics settings. If nothing helped you, then we advise you to look for effective solutions on the forums or wait for a patch from the developers.

Q: Low fps and the game looks terrible.
A: In this case, only the optimal graphics settings for your system can help. Unfortunately, the project is not yet very well optimized, and therefore it can slow down even on powerful computers.

Q: There are no inscriptions in the Tasks and Skills menu - either there is no translation, or it is terrible.
A: When you open the Skills menu (U key), take a look at the description of your skills. If you see only codes, numbers, and so on, then this means that in the Steam settings for Dark and Light, a language other than English is set (Chinese is most often set). This is a bug. Simply change this setting in Steam to English or any other language you need.

Q: The game freezes on the loading screen and then crashes.
A: The loading screen is also a queue panel, so please be patient. In addition, the first time you start the game after turning on your computer, you will most likely have to wait a few minutes before this screen disappears. Do not press other keys and do not minimize the game.

Q: There are no merchants in my city!
A: They are all dead. It's just that someone tried to take non-existent loot from them. This issue will be fixed soon (hopefully). All merchants on unofficial servers are respawned after the world is restarted.

Q: The house has missing doors, missing structural elements, and so on.
A: If this happened right after entering the game, then they simply haven't loaded yet. You can speed things up by dying and respawning. You can also go somewhere for a walk and then come back.

Q: I can't pick up things.
A: Lags and a terrible collection system are the reasons for this error. Move around the item a bit, use your ax/sword secondary attack or die and then respawn. Sometimes squatting next to a thing or restarting the computer helps.

Q: Can't kill the mob!
A: Some of the enemies have a very large health bar, such as horses and shadow ghosts (grim reapers that spawn in meteor impact areas). If you are a beginner, then be extremely careful when colliding with any mob. Also pay attention to the fact that when you attack, you should see red numbers next to the enemy. If they are not there, then this means that you simply cannot damage him.

Q: How to level up?
A: To quickly gain experience points, you should join someone in the House (tribe). The fact is that in this case you will gain experience just by being close to your comrades in arms.

Q: How to increase the rank of skill X in order to craft item Y?
A: Leveling up will not give you crafting skills. Check the skill menu to find out what needs to be done for this. To increase the rank of abilities, you need to spend more time gathering and crafting items. Taming creatures also helps to increase the rank of skills.

Game world

Below is a map of the game world. It does not list spawn points that factions can take over, or any other information of this kind. It simply shows the approximate geography of the territory and the location of the 3 main cities.

In the game, you can move the map and waypoint, but at first you won't have any physical map in your hand. With the right development of skills, at some point you will be able to create a holographic map (Rune of Guidance) directly on the ground using magic, with a touch-sensitive movement indicator (looks beautiful, but it is of little use).

In addition, a bug often occurs when you frequently press the map button without calling the holographic projection itself, leading to the disappearance of the hit animation. Plus, the developers noted that the game world is only 30 percent ready so far (as of July 30).

Characters, factions and houses (tribes/guilds)

In order to be able to create a seal at home (crafted at a workbench), you will need to found a tribe or invite someone to your alliance.
In order to be able to create a war flag, you will need to first craft a seal at home.
Characters are tied to the server. Don't expect them to move to another site.
There are no racial or faction bonuses in the game (at least not yet).
You can create your own character or use templates for elves, dwarves and humans.
There are 3 factions in the game - choose the same group as your friends, as the remaining 2 factions will automatically become your enemies and you will not be able to join their houses (tribes).
You will not be able to change your faction later.
It doesn't matter how long it took you to create your hero - if you choose the human faction, then your hero automatically becomes a human.
You can create your own house by pressing the "P" key or clicking on the corresponding menu with the mouse.
If necessary, you can change the name of your house, but the structures are not transferred. Keep this in mind so that you don't lose all your structures just because you want to change the name of the house.
You can invite people to your place by holding down the "E" key. Must be at least the head of the house.
All settings for the home can be changed in the corresponding menu, opened by pressing the "P" key.
House members do not have to enter codes on chests and doors every time - they will be able to open them without it (depending on their rank).
Heads of houses can enter into alliances and invite leaders of other tribes.
Your chat at home will become the same for everyone. In addition, your allies will be highlighted in blue from afar.
You can be in several alliances at once and use one chat to communicate with their members.

First dive into the world - quests

You will start the game near the city of your faction and will have to complete several training tasks, shown in the lower left corner.

The quest indicator in the lower left corner always shows you the quest that you were able to advance in one way or another. This is just a visual help, that is, there are no sections with "active quests" like in standard RPGs.
All quests (or rather, tasks) can be viewed in a special menu by pressing the "O" key. They depend on the character and his skill level.
Tasks can be executed in parallel to each other.
You won't be able to select an "active task", the game will do it for you.
The first non-working quest you will encounter is related to getting gold from merchants. You can simply ignore it or simply turn off the corresponding indicator.
Unfortunately, you will come across a lot of other non-working tasks. Just note somewhere that these quests should be completed in the future when the developers fix them.

How to extract resources - the most effective ways

Resources include barrels, which usually stand in cities and contain apples or gold coins. You can get their contents with your bare hands.

Level 0 Resources:

Grass, flowers and shrubs can be harvested with bare hands.
You will need magical shards, straw, wood, stone and twine to craft your first tools.

Level 1 Resources:

Use the ax on the cobblestones to mine the stone.
Use the ax on the trees to get apples and wood.
Use the Magic Stealer Staff on anything other than grass and bushes to get magic shards.
Use the pickaxe on the trees to get twine.
Use your bare hands on the bushes to pick blueberries.
Use the sword on the grass and bushes to collect flowers.
Using a tamed boar or an iron scythe will increase the collection of some level 0 and 1 resources.
The Scythe of the Dark Ghost can further increase the collection of certain level 0 and 1 resources. This item drops from Grim Reapers that spawn near fallen meteors.

Level 2 Resources:

Use a pickaxe on cobblestones/ore deposits. There is a small chance that high-level ores can be obtained from low-level deposits.
Copper - mined from copper deposits (brown stones with green stripes), found almost everywhere, but most often they can be found on mountains and hills.
Iron - Mined from iron deposits (silver-gray stalagmite rocks) that are commonly found on hilltops or along mountain paths.
Mithril - mined from mithril deposits (larger versions of iron deposits), which are usually located on the tops of mountains. To get to them, you will definitely need a flying creature.
Dark Shards are mined from Dark Shard deposits (Black Stones) that can be found in caves or ruins.
Light Shards - mined from Light Shard deposits (translucent blue crystals) that are found near special objects, for example, a small lake located near a red rift (located near the human spawn).

Level 3 Resources:

Examine the bodies of dead creatures to find useful things.
Use a pickaxe or sword on the corpses of animals, characters or players to get meat.
Use an axe, sickle or scythe on dead animals to get fur.
Use a pickaxe or iron dagger on dead animals for bones and hides.

How to get farming materials, such as seeds?

Use an iron scythe (can be crafted from copper ore) on the bushes to get seeds. You can get a lot more resources if you use the scythe of the dark ghost.

Additional resources (created resources)

In addition to the extracted resources, the game also has created resources.

If you burn wood instead of straw, you will get charcoal. We advise you to perform all actions with fire using a tree. As a result, you will be able to collect considerable reserves of coal.
With a mortar and pestle, you can create quartz sand from stone and sulfur powder from sulfur ore.
Later, you will also be able to grind dark and light stones.

Magic Essences

First you need to create or access a magic workbench/altar.
Use bottles filled with magical shards to obtain magical essences.
Find elemental cores or use an absorbing spell on elemental corpses.
Mix the essence with the core to get the elemental essence.

With the help of a tamed boar, you can find mushrooms (white and yellow).
Red mushrooms can be found in swamps and lava zones.

How to quickly get the best tools and armor

If you want to get the best armor and tools for your character, then you need a workbench. Since this workstation is not part of a rented house and cannot be placed in cities, you will have to build yourself a dwelling first, not to mention developing the corresponding skills.

However, there is an easier way. There are craft stations in every city. They mostly work as standard and magic workbenches, but are separated into crafts. Therefore, if you, for example, need to create armor, then go to the armory (or its equivalent for other factions).

Take the necessary resources with you and start crafting. Remember that you will still need iron and copper ingots created in the smelter. We add that today it is impossible to repair your things in these stations for unknown reasons. Perhaps this will be fixed in the future.

Life in the city: features

If you consider yourself a lone wolf or one of those players who do not like PvP, but still play on PvP servers, then you should consider living in the city.

All major resources can be found in the city. You can just run around and collect useful materials.
Barrels with apples and gold coins are located in the city.
There are no mobs in the city, unless some unique event happens in it or one of the players decides to bring the monster with them.
Dead or unconscious people can be collected with the "G" key and used for bad purposes.
In cities, you can find merchants and sell them unnecessary things.
Merchants only buy what they show and only in certain quantities. In addition, they make deals on one product strictly once a day, that is, if someone before you has already sold them wood, then you will have to wait a day before you can sell them a similar resource.
You can give development money to merchants to level them up and make them more friendly to you. In addition, high-level merchants begin to sell more useful things (useful for cooks).
Donations also speed up the growth of cities, which increases the number of NPCs in them.
If you kill the merchant, he will not respawn the next day. In addition, no loot will fall from him. As a result, you will only complicate the life of your faction.
Not far from the stables you can buy one of the horses. In this case, a saddle will immediately appear in your inventory.
While sprinting, horses can deal damage, even to city guards. Therefore, we do not advise you to quickly run through the city streets.
If you attack the horses in the stable, they will run away, and then simply die. However, then they will be reborn.
Do not consider yourself completely safe in the city. If someone attacks you, the guards will not intervene.
If you attack the inhabitants of the city, they will either run away or start fighting you. The guards are the only characters that always fight back and win most of the time.
To rent a property, you must be in a house (tribe). Then just go to the board next to the house you would like to live in and deposit a certain amount of gold. Thus, you rent it for a certain period of time.

Why shouldn't you live in the city all the time?

Life in the city, of course, is good, but you should not be in it all the time (at least with a high-level character).

Main cons:

It is impossible to grow mushrooms and engage in high-level crafting. You will depend on barter with other players or raids.
It is impossible to build a workbench, a magic workbench and a blacksmith's forge.
It is difficult to keep tamed animals (there is simply not enough space).
It is impossible to build summoning portals, turrets and so on.
Unable to build storage box. However, products can be put in feeders.

How to survive? Sleep is for dweebs!

To survive in this world, you need to constantly monitor the scales of your current parameters, indicated in the lower right corner. The most important of these include hunger, thirst and concentration.

The basic mechanics are pretty easy to master:

Hunger, thirst and concentration are reduced right during the game.
Whenever you use stamina and your character regains it, you lose thirst and hunger, meaning they become stronger.
Whenever you use mana and your character recovers it, you lose focus.
Whenever you are too cold, your appetite will increase; when you are too hot, your thirst will increase.
This means that the longer you run, attack, or cast spells, the more supplies you will need.

How to reduce hunger:

You just need to eat something.
If you want to restore, say, 100 hunger with berries, then you will have to eat about 70 of them. Therefore, we advise you to better fry some meat.

How to reduce thirst:

Find a body of water and dive headlong into it.
Early in the game, you will be able to craft Berry Jam (requires some herb and 45 berries). It can be used to satisfy thirst and hunger. However, it deteriorates quite quickly, so it should be done only when necessary.
Later, you will learn how to create glass bottles that can be filled with water.

How to restore concentration:

Sleep or eat flowers.
You can only sleep in sleeping bags, a canopy or a bed, but there are often situations where none of these options are suitable. In this case, we can advise you to eat flowers. 100 points of concentration can be restored with 100 flowers. They can be harvested from bushes or grass using a sword.
Later, you will be able to buy elixirs of concentration from vendors if you give them enough money to develop. These potions can also be crafted by yourself by unlocking the appropriate skill.

Let's add that your character does not disappear from the world after you leave the server, so it can be easily robbed. So try to find somewhere safe before leaving the game.

How to protect your property

If you do not want to be robbed, then you should know the following information:

If you have played ARK: Survival Evolved, then you will immediately figure out what's what, since there are few differences. Unless there are many more bugs and errors.
There is no offline protection (with the exception of printing at home).
Mobs spawning near meteorites will immediately attack your turrets, spikes or tamed animals if they are nearby. Therefore, we advise you not to build structures near meteorites.
Doors, gates, and windows cannot be opened by other players (with the exception of members of the same tribe).
Due to a bug, some players can still break into your house.
All your structures will be destroyed in a few days if you don't use them.
Beginner zones (near cities) are often filled with low-level characters that can be easily robbed.
Structures can be damaged by any means and at any time. There is no defense like "stone buildings can only be destroyed with stone tools".
Spells such as telekinesis or shift make it possible to get into someone else's house with a small probability.
If you don't have anything to store and don't have a seal yet, you can always make your house look like it's already been broken into.
You can hide high level houses in low level buildings.
You can create hidden rooms or just empty rooms. A huge number of small rooms in which there is nothing will be a real test for marauders.
Spikes or multiple walls can drive away thieves.

Logs at home

These logs (including alliance logs) can show you:

who did you kill
who killed your pets;
which player demolished one or another of your buildings.

If you are raided and your character or pet is killed, then you will know who attacked you. This will help you find the offenders and pay them back with the same coin.

However, the system will not show you who just stole some of your belongings or destroyed a couple of building elements. However, you can leave an animal with a low amount of health in your dwelling and give him the task of guarding the house. In this case, the intruder will surely kill your creature and you will learn its name.

Codes to enter

Codes are set on doors, chests, windows and other similar things. That is, they cannot be opened without having the right combination on hand.

However, there is a big problem with the codes now. The fact is that it does not offer protection against players who enter incorrect combinations. As a result, players can easily find the correct number sequence using special scripts.

For this reason, today it makes no sense to set codes for gates, doors, and so on. True, you can set passwords for chests. The fact is that if a player, as a result of a bug, gets into your house and opens an uncoded chest, then he will immediately teleport back. Otherwise, the thief will get stuck in your building.

Printing at home

To create a seal at home, you need to found your own tribe. Then you can craft it at the workbench. The seal creates a bubble shield with a radius of 4 bases. Thus, your house should not exceed the dimensions of 9x9x9. The seal should be installed in the center of the building on the second floor.

Printing can be turned on and off. In addition, she needs a magical essence to work. For one real day, she spends about 36-40 essences. The only way to get past this shield is by declaring war on the owner of the house. To do this, you will first need to create a military flag and throw it directly into the building. Thus, not everyone will be able to break through this force field.

If Dark and Light crashes, Dark and Light will not start, Dark and Light not installing, there are no controls in Dark and Light, no sound in game, errors happen in Dark and Light – we suggest you the most common ways to solve these problems.

First, check if your PC meets the minimum system requirements:

OS: 64-Bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows 8
Processor: 2 GHz Dual-Core 64-bit
Memory: 8 GB
Video: 1 GB
DirectX 10
HDD: 50 GB free space

Be sure to update your video card drivers and other software

Before you remember the worst words and express them towards the developers, do not forget to go to the official website of the manufacturer of your video card and download the latest drivers. Often, specially optimized drivers are prepared for the release of games. You can also try installing a later version of the drivers if the problem is not solved by installing the current version.

It is important to remember that you should download only the final versions of video cards - try not to use beta versions, as they may have a large number of bugs not found and not fixed.

Do not forget that games often require the latest version of DirectX to be installed, which can always be downloaded from the official Microsoft website.

Dark and Light won't start

Many problems with launching games happen due to incorrect installation. Check if there were any errors during the installation, try uninstalling the game and running the installer again, after disabling the antivirus - often the files needed for the game to work are deleted by mistake. It is also important to remember that the path to the folder with the installed game should not contain Cyrillic characters - use only Latin letters and numbers for directory names.

It still does not hurt to check if there is enough space on the HDD for installation. You can try to run the game as Administrator in compatibility mode with different versions of Windows.

Dark and Light slows down. Low FPS. Logs. Friezes. hangs up

First - install the latest drivers for the video card, from this FPS in the game can rise significantly. Also check the computer's load in the task manager (opened by pressing CTRL + SHIFT + ESCAPE). If, before starting the game, you see that some process is consuming too many resources, turn off its program or simply end this process from the task manager.

Next, go to the graphics settings in the game. First of all, turn off anti-aliasing and try lowering the settings responsible for post-processing. Many of them consume a lot of resources and disabling them will significantly increase performance without greatly affecting the quality of the picture.

Dark and Light crashes to desktop

If Dark and Light often crashes to your desktop, try lowering the graphics quality to start solving the problem. It is possible that your computer simply does not have enough performance and the game cannot work correctly. It is also worth checking for updates - most modern games have a system for automatically installing new patches. Check if this option is disabled in the settings.

Black screen in Dark and Light

More often than not, the problem with the black screen is an issue with the GPU. Check if your graphics card meets the minimum requirements and install the latest drivers. Sometimes a black screen is the result of insufficient CPU performance.

If everything is fine with the hardware, and it meets the minimum requirements, try switching to another window (ALT + TAB), and then return to the game window.

Dark and Light is not installed. Installation stuck

First of all, check if you have enough HDD space for installation. Remember that the setup program requires the advertised amount of space plus 1-2 gigabytes of free space on the system drive to run properly. In general, remember the rule - the system drive should always have at least 2 gigabytes of free space for temporary files. Otherwise, both games and programs may not work correctly or refuse to start at all.

Installation problems can also occur due to lack of Internet connection or its unstable operation. Also, do not forget to suspend the antivirus while installing the game - sometimes it interferes with the correct copying of files or deletes them by mistake, considering them viruses.

Saves not working in Dark and Light

By analogy with the previous solution, check the availability of free space on the HDD - both on the one where the game is installed and on the system drive. Often save files are stored in a folder of documents, which is located separately from the game itself.

Controls not working in Dark and Light

Sometimes the controls in the game do not work due to the simultaneous connection of several input devices. Try disabling the gamepad, or if for some reason you have two keyboards or mice connected, leave only one pair of devices. If the gamepad does not work for you, then remember that only controllers that are defined as Xbox joysticks officially support games. If your controller is defined differently, try using programs that emulate Xbox joysticks (for example, x360ce).

Sound not working in Dark and Light

Check if the sound works in other programs. After that, check if the sound is turned off in the settings of the game itself and if the sound playback device is selected there, to which your speakers or headset are connected. Next, while the game is running, open the mixer and check if the sound is muted there.

If you are using an external sound card, check for new drivers on the manufacturer's website.

Unfortunately, there are flaws in games: brakes, low FPS, crashes, freezes, bugs and other minor and not very errors. Often problems begin before the game even starts, when it won't install, won't load, or won't even download. Yes, and the computer itself is sometimes weird, and then in Dark and Light, instead of a picture, a black screen, control does not work, no sound is heard, or anything else.

What to do first

Download and run the world famous CCleaner(download from a direct link) is a program that will clean your computer of unnecessary garbage, as a result of which the system will work faster after the first reboot;
Update all drivers in the system using the program Driver Updater(download via direct link) - it will scan your computer and update all drivers to the latest version in 5 minutes;
Install the program WinOptimizer(download from a direct link) and turn on the game mode in it, which will end useless background processes during game launch and increase performance in the game.

The second thing to do if you encounter any problems with Dark and Light is to check the system requirements. In a good way, you need to do this even before the purchase, so as not to regret the money spent.

Minimum system requirements Dark and Light:

64-Bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, 2 GHz Dual-Core 64-bit, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB HDD, 10 1 GB, Keyboard

Every gamer should at least have a little understanding of the components, to know why a video card, processor and other things are needed in the system unit.

Files, drivers and libraries

Almost every device in a computer requires a set of special software. These are drivers, libraries and other files that ensure the correct operation of the computer.

It's worth starting with the drivers for the video card. Modern graphics cards are produced by only two large companies - Nvidia and AMD. Having found out which product spins the coolers in the system unit, we go to the official website and download the package of fresh drivers:

A prerequisite for the successful functioning of Dark and Light is the availability of the latest drivers for all devices in the system. Download the utility Driver Updater to easily and quickly download the latest drivers and install them with one click:

If Dark and Light does not start, we recommend that you try disabling your antivirus or put the game in the antivirus exceptions, and also check the system requirements again and if something from your build does not match, then, if possible, improve your PC by purchasing more powerful accessories .

In Dark and Light black screen, white screen, color screen. Solution

Problems with screens of different colors can be roughly divided into 2 categories.

Firstly, they are often associated with the use of two video cards at once. For example, if your motherboard has a built-in video card, but you play on a discrete one, then Dark and Light may run on the built-in one for the first time, while you will not see the game itself, because the monitor is connected to a discrete video card.

Secondly, color screens happen when there are problems with displaying the image on the screen. This can happen for various reasons. For example, Dark and Light cannot work through an outdated driver or does not support a video card. Also, a black / white screen may be displayed when working at resolutions that are not supported by the game.

Dark and Light crashes. At a certain or random moment. Solution

You play for yourself, play and here - bam! - everything goes out, and now you have a desktop without any hint of the game. Why is this happening? To solve the problem, it is worth trying to figure out what the nature of the problem is.

If the crash occurs at a random point in time without any pattern, then with a probability of 99% we can say that this is a mistake of the game itself. In this case, fixing something is very difficult, and it is best to just put Dark and Light aside and wait for the patch.

However, if you know exactly at what moments the crash occurs, then you can continue the game, avoiding situations that provoke a crash.

However, if you know exactly at what moments the crash occurs, then you can continue the game, avoiding situations that provoke a crash. In addition, you can download the Dark and Light save and bypass the departure point.

Dark and Light freezes. The picture freezes. Solution

The situation is about the same as with crashes: many freezes are directly related to the game itself, or rather, to the developer's mistake when creating it. However, a frozen picture can often become a starting point for investigating the deplorable state of a video card or processor.

So if the picture in Dark and Light freezes, then use the programs to display statistics on the loading of components. Perhaps your video card has long exhausted its working life or the processor is heating up to dangerous temperatures?

The easiest way to check the loading and temperatures for the video card and processors is in the MSI Afterburner program. If desired, you can even display these and many other parameters on top of the Dark and Light image.

What temperatures are dangerous? Processors and video cards have different operating temperatures. For video cards, they are usually 60-80 degrees Celsius. The processors are slightly lower - 40-70 degrees. If the processor temperature is higher, then you should check the condition of the thermal paste. It may have dried out and needs to be replaced.

If the video card is heating up, then you should use the driver or the official utility from the manufacturer. You need to increase the number of revolutions of the coolers and see if the operating temperature drops.

Dark and Light slows down. Low FPS. Frame rate drops. Solution

With brakes and low frame rates in Dark and Light, the first step is to lower the graphics settings. Of course, there are a lot of them, so before reducing everything in a row, you should find out exactly how certain settings affect performance.

Screen resolution. In short, this is the number of points that make up the picture of the game. The higher the resolution, the higher the load on the video card. However, the increase in load is negligible, so reducing the screen resolution should only be the last resort, when everything else does not help.

Texture quality. Typically, this setting determines the resolution of texture files. Decrease the quality of textures if the video card has a small amount of video memory (less than 4 GB) or if you are using a very old hard drive with a spindle speed of less than 7200.

Model quality(sometimes just details). This setting determines which set of 3D models will be used in the game. The higher the quality, the more polygons. Accordingly, high-poly models require more processing power of the video card (not to be confused with the amount of video memory!), which means that this parameter should be reduced on video cards with a low core or memory frequency.

Shadows. They are implemented in different ways. In some games, shadows are created dynamically, that is, they are calculated in real time every second of the game. Such dynamic shadows load both the processor and the video card. In order to optimize, developers often abandon the full rendering and add a pre-render of shadows to the game. They are static, because in fact they are just textures that are superimposed on top of the main textures, which means they load memory, and not the core of the video card.

Often, developers add additional settings related to shadows:

Shadow Resolution - determines how detailed the shadow cast by the object will be. If the game has dynamic shadows, then it loads the core of the video card, and if a pre-created render is used, then it “eats” the video memory.
Soft shadows - smoothing out bumps on the shadows themselves, usually this option is given along with dynamic shadows. Regardless of the type of shadows, it loads the video card in real time.

Smoothing. Allows you to get rid of ugly corners at the edges of objects by using a special algorithm, the essence of which is usually to generate several images at once and compare them, calculating the most “smooth” image. There are many different anti-aliasing algorithms that differ in the level of impact on the performance of Dark and Light.

For example, MSAA works head-on, creating 2, 4, or 8 renders at once, so the frame rate is reduced by 2, 4, or 8 times, respectively. Algorithms such as FXAA and TAA operate a little differently, achieving a smooth image by calculating only the edges and using some other tricks. Because of this, they do not reduce performance as much.

Lighting. As in the case of anti-aliasing, there are different algorithms for lighting effects: SSAO, HBAO, HDAO. All of them use the resources of the video card, but they do it differently depending on the video card itself. The fact is that the HBAO algorithm was promoted mainly on video cards from Nvidia (GeForce line), so it works best on the “green” ones. HDAO, on the other hand, is optimized for AMD graphics cards. SSAO is the simplest type of lighting, it consumes the least resources, so in case of slowdowns in Dark and Light, it is worth switching to it.

What should be lowered first? Shadows, anti-aliasing, and lighting effects are usually the most stressful, so it's best to start with them.

Often gamers themselves have to deal with Dark and Light optimization. For almost all major releases, there are various related and forums where users share their ways to improve productivity.

One of them - a special program called WinOptimizer. It is made specifically for those who do not want to manually clean up the computer from various temporary files, delete unnecessary registry entries and edit the startup list. WinOptimizer will do this for you, as well as analyze your computer to find ways to improve application and game performance.

Dark and Light lags. Big game delay. Solution

Many people confuse "lag" with "lag", but these problems have completely different causes. Dark and Light slows down when the frame rate at which the image is displayed on the monitor decreases, and lags when the delay when accessing the server or any other host is too high.

That is why "lags" can only be in network games. The reasons are different: bad network code, physical distance from servers, network congestion, incorrectly configured router, low Internet connection speed.

However, the latter is the least common. In online games, communication between the client and the server occurs by exchanging relatively short messages, so even 10 MB per second should be enough for the eyes.

There is no sound in Dark and Light. I can not hear anything. Solution

Dark and Light works, but for some reason does not sound - this is another problem that gamers face. Of course, you can play like that, but it's still better to figure out what's the matter.

First you need to determine the scope of the problem. Where exactly is there no sound - only in the game or in general on the computer? If only in the game, then perhaps this is due to the fact that the sound card is very old and does not support DirectX.

If there is no sound at all, then the matter is definitely in the computer settings. Perhaps the sound card drivers are not installed correctly, or maybe there is no sound due to some specific error of our favorite Windows OS.

Controls do not work in Dark and Light. Dark and Light does not see the mouse, keyboard or gamepad. Solution

How to play if it is impossible to control the process? The problems of supporting specific devices are out of place here, because we are talking about familiar devices - keyboard, mouse and controller.

Thus, errors in the game itself are practically excluded, almost always the problem is on the user's side. You can solve it in different ways, but, one way or another, you will have to turn to the driver. Usually, when you connect a new device, the operating system immediately tries to use one of the standard drivers, but some models of keyboards, mice, and gamepads are not compatible with them.

Thus, you need to find out the exact model of the device and try to find exactly its driver. Often, devices from well-known gaming brands come with their own software kits, since the standard Windows driver simply cannot ensure the correct operation of all the functions of a particular device.

If you don’t want to look for drivers for all devices separately, you can use the program Driver Updater. It is designed to automatically search for drivers, so you only need to wait for the scan results and download the necessary drivers in the program interface.

Often, brakes in Dark and Light can be caused by viruses. In this case, there is no difference how powerful the video card is in the system unit. You can check your computer and clean it of viruses and other unwanted software using special programs. For example NOD32 . The antivirus has proven itself from the best side and has received the approval of millions of users around the world.

Suitable for both personal use and small businesses, ZoneAlarm is able to protect a computer running Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP from any attack: phishing, viruses, malware, spyware and other cyber threats . New users are given a 30-day free trial.

Nod32 is an antivirus from ESET, which has received many awards for its contribution to the development of security. Versions of anti-virus programs for both PC and mobile devices are available on the developer's website, a 30-day trial version is provided. There are special conditions for business.

Dark and Light downloaded from torrent does not work. Solution

If the distribution kit of the game was downloaded via torrent, then in principle there can be no guarantees of work. Torrents and repacks are almost never updated through official applications and do not work over the network, because in the course of hacking, hackers cut out all network functions from games, which are often used to check the license.

Using such versions of games is not only inconvenient, but even dangerous, because very often many files have been changed in them. For example, to bypass protection, pirates modify an EXE file. However, no one knows what else they do with it. Maybe they embed self-executing software. For example, which, when the game is first launched, will be integrated into the system and will use its resources to ensure the well-being of hackers. Or, giving access to the computer to third parties. There are no guarantees and there cannot be.

In addition, the use of pirated versions is, according to our publication, theft. The developers have spent a lot of time creating the game, investing their own money in the hope that their offspring will pay off. And every work must be paid.

Therefore, if you encounter any problems with games downloaded from torrents or hacked using certain means, you should immediately remove the pirate, clean your computer with an antivirus and a licensed copy of the game. This will not only save you from dubious software, but also allow you to download updates for the game and receive official support from its creators.

Dark and Light gives an error about the missing DLL file. Solution

As a rule, problems associated with the absence of DLLs occur when Dark and Light is launched, however, sometimes the game can access certain DLLs in the process and, without finding them, crash in the most impudent manner.

To fix this error, you need to find the required DLL and install it on the system. The easiest way to do this is with a program. DLL fixer, which scans the system and helps you quickly find missing libraries.

If your problem turned out to be more specific, or if the method described in this article did not help, then you can ask other users in our "" section. They will promptly help you!

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Dark and Light has become available in Steam Early Access and players have already begun to complain about a bunch of various errors and bugs that literally make the project unplayable. The game is currently rather poorly optimized, and on the very first day of release it managed to collect about a thousand negative reviews, all thanks to numerous technical problems.

This massive sandbox RPG has been in development for several years and was released on July 20 in Early Access. This was done so that developers could interact directly with the players and improve their project according to their preferences.

Players claim that the most common problem in Dark and Light is terrible performance, which is expressed in low frame rates and image jerks, which, of course, is all about disgusting optimization. Another common problem is a load-time bug where players try to join a server and have to wait a huge amount of time to get into it. Here is a list of the most common problems:

Performance Issues
Load stuck bug
Game won't start
Bug when creating a character

If you are facing one of the above problems, then you have come to the right place, as this Dark and Light guide will show you how to solve all these problems. However, before we move on to the solutions, let's take a look at the system requirements for Dark and Light, as your problems may be due to not meeting them.

Processor: Intel Core i5 2500K
RAM: 8 GB RAM
Video Card: GeForce GTX 960 or higher
DirectX: version 10

OS: 64-Bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8 or Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i7-5820k 6x 3.3 GHz
RAM: 16 GB RAM
Video Card: GeForce GTX 1070 or higher
DirectX: version 10
Free space: 50 GB disk space

Problem Solving Methods for Dark and Light

If your computer meets the system requirements, then let's move on to the most important thing in this article - methods for solving the above problems.

It appears that some players are experiencing an infinite loading screen while trying to join a server or trying to play single player.

Here is what one of the players on the Steam forums had to say about this issue:

Tried to play this game, after menu, server selection or single player, Dark and Light starts loading, which shows a dragon moving its wings. This download takes quite a long time and doesn't seem to finish.

Solution: some players indicated that this problem is based on the high occupancy of the game servers. Simply put, they are full of people and there is no more space, so the loading screen is something like a queue. However, you can still do something - close Dark and Light and Steam, and then enter the game again. It also became clear that the developers themselves do not yet know the maximum capacity of their server:

What is the maximum server capacity? Due to the fact that we have not done any stress tests yet, we have not been able to determine the exact figure. We'll be targeting 100 players on the official server, but we'll be using the Early Access period to determine our ideal server capacity and build on that.

Low FPS in Dark and Light

The developers said that to play their MMO project, you have to have a really powerful system. However, system builds such as i5 + 960 GTX + 8GB RAM can handle Dark and Light at low or medium settings.

We must still understand that the game is still at the Early Access stage and some problems with optimization are quite expected problems. Unfortunately, if you are faced with some FPS drawdowns, then this is treated only by brute force, i.e. increase in system power.

However, you can still do this - write a line in the launch options of the game on Steam, which should slightly increase the performance of Dark and Light. To write this command, do the following:

Open the Steam client.
Go to your game library.
Find Dark and Light there.
Right click on it and go to "Properties".
Go to the "General" tab.
Click the "Set Launch Options..." button.
Enter in line USEALLAVAILABLECORES -sm4 -d3d10 –novsync and save your changes.

Dark and Light won't start

For some players, Dark and Light may not start at all. The process with the game starts, which can be observed through the Task Manager, but nothing happens. It's hard to believe, but the solution is to simply wait for Dark and Light to launch.

Some players have to wait literally ten minutes, which is of course unacceptable, but what you can do is Early Access and such things are not unusual. Try launching Dark and Light and give it time as it is most likely in the process of launching.

Bug when creating a character in Dark and Light

In addition to all the above problems, Dark and Light also has a bug when creating a character. No matter how much you turn the various sliders in the character settings, the model you need will not appear. Various graphical artifacts may also appear on the character creation screen.

Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do about this problem, at least at the moment. Developers will definitely have to fix the character creation bug pretty quickly, since this part of the game is a very important stage in an MMO.

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