goldstrap / global settings

Global settings

Roblox keeps its own preferences in a single XML file. This page edits that file for you, and only the values you change.

The file behind it

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Roblox\GlobalBasicSettings_13.xml holds settings that belong to the installation rather than to one game: render quality, frame rate cap, mouse sensitivity, interface transparency. Roblox rewrites it when it closes.

Because of that rewrite, Goldstrap reads the file again at the moment you save and re-applies only the values you touched. Anything Roblox changed in the meantime — a graphics slider you moved in game, for example — survives.

Frame rate cap

Sets FramerateCap: 1 to 240, or the client default. 0 is deliberately refused; it breaks Roblox's renderer instead of uncapping it. If you see the slider sitting at 60 when the client is not running, that is the default, not a saved value.

For a hard number that survives the in-game slider, use the Uncapped frame rate toggle instead; it writes a client flag that takes priority.

Graphics quality

The quality slider writes two values, because Roblox stores it twice: the notch (SavedQualityLevel, 0 automatic to 10) and the real render level (GraphicsQualityLevel, 1 to 21). Writing only one makes the client fall back to the other, which is why quality used to stick.

Two things happen alongside a save: MaxQualityEnabled is forced off, because leaving it on makes Roblox ignore the level you picked, and the quality-override Fast Flag is cleared, because it would otherwise pin the render level and grey out the in-game slider.

The rest of the file

Read-only

Marks the file read-only, so the client cannot overwrite it when it closes. Useful when a game keeps resetting a value you care about. Goldstrap removes the flag temporarily while it saves, then puts it back.

If Roblox is running while the file is read-only, expect your in-game changes to be lost at exit. That is the point — and the reason the switch is off by default.

When the file does not exist

A fresh Roblox install has no settings file until the first launch. Goldstrap creates one from a template so the page has something to edit. If you would rather start from the client's own defaults, delete the file and launch Roblox once before opening the page.

• Uncapped frame rate A cap that outranks the in-game slider.
• Force reinstall When a settings file has gone bad.
• Client will not start Resetting the file from scratch.