Detailed Options Menu Text

There are some settings in the options menus that aren't self-explanatory, especially things like video settings. It would be nice to be able to hover or click a ? button for a little bit of extra information on some of that stuff.

 

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Yes, indeed. Sure there are many options where a short description already exists but there still a good many where I only during play and reading the forum learned what they meant and some are still obscure.

e.g.
Footsteps [] Mine? The peaceful NPC´s? Monsters? Non-specific sounds of footsteps as ambient sound in dungeons like in Daggerfall? Sounds of monsters that do not have feet? All of them?
Attack Ticks []? Monsters with attack ticks suffer from a severe shudder in the left shoulder before striking you down?
Music Filter[]? Music on/off? Filter out playermusic of wax cylinders but allow ambient game music? Nerf Bards with a gag like Troubadix in Asterix & Obelix?


What are the differences between the slider for "interior deco cull distance" compared to the checkbox for "cull interior deco"?

Aggressive Decorations loading [] First I thought that was a special ability of LOT-owners who turned POT´s into Las Vegas, but I start to feel it must be something else...

Cloth Simulation [] Clothing ingame is not real but only a product of the Matrix?

Load time baking [] I can´t stress enough how strange that sounds and how I wonder what kind of people come up with those names... If I check that does my CPU overheat and I should have a bucket of water ready to put out the fire? Would checked mean that I can go and bake a cake in the time it would need for loading? Does the game simulate that my character, in the time of loading, is not inactive but baking bread and cakes for the next venture into the wilderness?

GPU occlusion [] Those words sound familiar. Occlusion means that my graphical processor unit needs glasses, right?

Disable weather on low performance [] Wouldn´t we want a downpour when wathing a low performance of some bard and no bad weather in case of a high performance?

Prevent movement while casting [] ? Mouseover explanation: "Don´t allow your skills to be interrupted when attempting to move."
So... I prevent my skills to be interupted by moving by cheking that box? Checking that box prevents me from moving? It only prevents moving while using skills?
I had that checked and I usually use Nightvision or Dash constantly while moving around, sometimes the Strenght spell when it runs out. Would my character at each time of casting stop and continue running after the spell had been cast when checked, like stutter movement?

Enable housing UI [] When one is not on an owned lot, is there a sense to have that enabled? And if it´s disabled, does that actually make a difference in that less memory is used or such?

Show Nameplates [] "Show nameplates over each characters head" [except yourself that is]
Show player nameplate [] "Show a nameplate over your characters head" --> so our character is excluded in the first, which is not immediately obvious.

Auto-Stack items [] (except when two item groups have the same name but different pricing, like in bought and looted vs. found and taken value 0 items)

Enable decoration mode [] Does disabling save up some memory? Would I need that anywhere except on a lot or in a room where I have rights? Would disabling that mean that in POT´s the mannequins and player based wishing wells would stop showing strange menus instead of reacting like normal gameworld equivalents?#