Options

Options is a screen which allows players to change various in-game settings, such as the brightness, audio and video settings, and toggle between fullscreen and normal browser resolution.

Other options include the settings for the house, chat effects display, private chat settings, "Accept aid" settings, player-owned house settings and run energy levels.

Graphics options
With the introduction of RuneScape High Detail, Jagex has introduced various options to the way graphics are rendered in RuneScape.

Software/Hardware Acceleration


The current Graphics options are as follows:
 * Standard Detail
 * High Detail

Screen Sizing
The screen size may be adjusted as follows:


 * Fixed
 * Resizeable
 * Fullscreen
 * 800×600
 * 1024×768
 * 1280×720
 * 1280×800
 * 1440×900
 * 1280x1024
 * 1680x1050
 * 1600x1200

Advanced Options

 * Brightness: A slider control to adjust between four brightness levels within the game screen from darkest, on the left, to lightest, on the right. (Note: The control appears at the top of the graphics options while not logged into the game, and at the bottom when logged in.)
 * Remove roofs: Always -or- Selectively
 * Idle animations: Few -or- Many
 * Character shadows: On -or- Off
 * Lighting detail (HD only) : High -or- Low
 * Anti-aliasing (HD only) : None, 2x, -or- 4x
 * Custom cursors: On -or- Off
 * Particle effects: High, Medium, -or- Low
 * CPU usage: Very low, Low, Normal, High -or- Maximum
 * Ground decoration: On -or- Off
 * Flickering effects: On -or- Off
 * Scenery shadows (HD only) : None, Static, -or- Dynamic
 * Water detail (HD only) : High -or- Low
 * Fog (HD only) : On -or- Off
 * Visible levels: Current -or- All (For HD: Always "All")
 * Texture detail: Low -or- High
 * Ground textures: Few -or- Many (For HD: Always "Many")
 * Resizable window (HD only) : Off -or- On

Audio options
The audio options can be set from the screen by selecting "Audio Options" in the panel prior to the logon screen.

What can I change?

 * Music Volume: How loud the background music is. The background music the music that is currently playing in the jukebox. By turning down the Music volume, you hear the ingame sounds more easily which is useful for some fights where the monster makes a noise before it attacks.


 * Sound Effects: How loud the sound effects are, such as the noise of the player attacking a monster and the High Alchemy noise. Turning down the sound effects is good if you are doing something like high alching for hours straight and the noise that sounds every time you do one action starts to get on your nerve.


 * Ambient Sounds Volume: How loud the surrounding area sounds are. The surrounding things are things like birds chirping and the noise of the ocean going in and out which you can only hear when you are in a certain area.


 * Mono/Stereo: Switch between Mono and Stereo sound. When the noise is mono, all the speakers play exactly the same thing. With stereo though some of the speakers will play certain instrument's noises while the other speakers play the other noises.

House options
The "House Options" screen allows the player to enter or leave Building mode, expel their guests, or to leave the house without the need for a portal. Only the "Leave House" option can be used from this screen when a player is not in their own player-owned house.

The "Expel Guests" button played a part in the World 111 Glitch.

If a player is not in their house and selects 'Expel Guests', they get the message "You're not in a house. You can't expel people from the world, even if you don't like them!".