Make sure you dont have any of the setting marks checked, most of them are things like, reduce graphics when in party, reduce if too many things on screen, optimize setting (auto adjust) and other things like that. If i recall perfect setting will be all slide bars to the right, with nothing checked. Dont think there are any performance setting that require a check mark.
Im on a laptop with a 1g g-card and 4g ram. Its at least 3 years old now.
Have some picks I loaded from the game I liked to bgbucket, cant post into forums as of yet, but this should take you to my gallery.
(bluegartr.com/bucket/gallery/user/69326-divimise)
Have a picture overlooking the island out by the pirate camp up north, another from some of the background from said island. From up in that area as well are the two red pictures of the lava area with the face in the mountain. The other is when I was exploring the academy, there was a witch statue at the bottom, didnt get a pic of the weird pumpkin automation like thing with the dog drowning in a green pool of sludge. (Ill have to try again, too many mobs where in the way for a clean shot ). Of course the pic of the whale like creature in the background, the duet back in town, and a lovely animation glitch where I had runes flying all around me. So took some snapshots and poses.
Last pic in the bucket is before server went down, found out how to use dye pedals from harvesting/mining. Was like 100+ green colored items in the guild bank so took a couple and crafted up a dye kit. ( costs around 1200g, 10 of the base dye item and 3 empty bottle, the bottles are sold by the dye merchant along with the recipe to craft.) They even last a week of in game time, so I decided to fix that drab brown smoking jacket look to a nice deep sea color before loging out.