Possible Fix for high crash frequency in Ultima IX

Sergorn and myself might have found a fix that would greatly reduce the number of crashes people are experiencing in Ultima IX without having to drop view distance to a few yards.

In options.ini, paste the text below the line over the performance section (only the performance section).  Try it out and let us know if how it goes.  We want to hear from you if you observe a reduction in crashes, an increase in crashes, or notice no significant alteration in crash frequency if you usually encounter a fair number of crashes.  If the frequency of crashes is already pretty low, then this fix probably won’t help that much.

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[Performance]
; Clipping planes
FarClippingPlaneDistance=8000
MiddleClippingPlaneDistance=4000
; Enables 16-bit texture maps
Use16BitTextures=1
; Camera focal length
CameraZoom=600
; Camera distance from Avatar
CameraDistance=400
; The range through which windows can be seen through
MaximumPortalRange=700
; Screen radius of objects culled, and distance culling starts
MaxObjCullSize=10
CullStartDist=1000
; Are particle-system flames allowed?
PoofFlames=1
; Poof optimization level:
; 0 = no optimization
; 1 = non-critical particles calculated but not transformed
; 2 = non-critical particles are neither calculated nor transformed
; 3 = all particles, critical or not, cease incepting children
PoofOptimize=3
; Default clipping plane setting for underground maps
DungeonClippingPlaneDistance=2000
; Set to 1 to use the compressed texture set for D3D
UseCompressedTextures=0
; Set to 1 to enable the hi-res sky (runs slower)
HiResSky=1
; Number of frames that unused D3D texture surfaces stay around
DeadPoolLifeTime=6000
; Size in ?? of unused D3D surface pool
DeadPoolSize=3200
; Set to 1 to display frame rate on-screen
DisplayMetrics=0
; Max # meshes read from disk each frame.  Increasing this number will cause
; the game to run slower, but will “pop” items into view sooner.
MaxMeshesPerFrame=1000
; Number of frames that an un-used mesh stays in memory.
MeshCacheDeadTime=1500
; Size (in bytes) of the RAM cache for meshes
MeshCacheMemorySize=256000000
; Max # of mesh instances created per frame.
MaxInstancesPerFrame=2000
UseTerrainDetailLevels=0