{"id":92,"date":"2024-05-10T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:09:44","slug":"old-school-runescape-legacy-java-client-vs-new-official-client-c-brightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Old School RuneScape Legacy Java Client vs New Official Client (C++) Brightness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was curious on a framerate test in Lumbridge castle between the Java and C++ OSRS clients, and found that there’s a notable difference in the lowest brightness of the game world, with the C++ new client being slightly <\/i>brighter (screenshots at the bottom; I recommend new Tabs to switch between for comparisons).<\/p>\n

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There are other subtle differences too like the camera distance (both are at default), the minimap, and fine details on the grass tiles on the outer-edge around the fences. On the top-left-most Gem rocks, the outer-left rock’s shadow loses some gradient and fine details on the shadow on the that are seemingly “smoothed-out” on the C++ client.<\/p>\n

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I prefer the Java client’s more saturated colors and the harder-red. I’ve played from the Java client at 50 FPS for years and I’m used to it (along with needing no extra features from the C++ client), but I got used to that smooth camera movement with GPU acceleration.<\/p>\n

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I’m playing from the Java client again currently (Jagex Launcher), and after a few days I haven’t felt the need to switch back to C++. Black colors actually being black and other colors being saturated is nice! You can find my RuneScape hiscores and screenshots here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Legacy Java Client: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Legacy<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

New Official Client (C++):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/div>\n

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I was curious on a framerate test in Lumbridge castle between the Java and C++ OSRS clients, and found that there’s a notable difference in the lowest brightness of the game world, with the C++ new client being slightly brighter (screenshots at the bottom; I recommend new Tabs to switch between for comparisons). There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-runescape","category-windows-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.realmofespionage.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}