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-When launching the game you'll get access to a menu allowing you to start a game (of course), ​to setup your preferences and graphical settings. Here's an overview of those options.+When launching the game you'll get access to a menu allowing you to start a new game or load an existing one and to setup your preferences and graphical settings. Here's an overview of those options.
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 On the left you can set the resolution for the game. The higher it is, the slowest it may be depending on your graphic card and system. On the left you can set the resolution for the game. The higher it is, the slowest it may be depending on your graphic card and system.
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 **Disable Interpolation:​** May very slightly reduce the quality of the image to very slightly increase the FPS. **Disable Interpolation:​** May very slightly reduce the quality of the image to very slightly increase the FPS.
  
-**Cap FPS to refresh rate:​** ​//​Recommended!// ​This is a top down 2D game, you don't need more FPS. Depending on how fast is your computer, disabling ​this setting may render the user interface much less responsive.+**Cap FPS to refresh rate:** This is a top down 2D game, you don't need 200 FPS. Disabling ​this setting may render the user interface much less responsive.
  
-**Enable Bloom Effect:** //Experimental!// This is not a recommended ​setting, it will improve the output ​noticeably ​but it is buggy at the moment and may cause the output to flicker a lot.+**Enable Bloom Shaders:** If your computed supports the //full hardware acceleration// setting, it will improve the graphics ​noticeably ​by applying a slight shading effect. It may not work properly on all available hardware.
  
-**Animated background stars:** Amount of stars that are displayed in the background. Reducing ​it may improve ​performance ​on very old hardware.+**Animated background stars:** Amount of stars that are displayed in the background. Reducing ​will improve ​performances ​on older hardware.
  
-**Sound:​** ​ Set the volume of sound effects ​(not implemented) ​and the music.+**Full Hardware Acceleration** Switches between two rendering methods. Check the [[technical help|troubleshooting]] page for additional details. 
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 +**Disable Sound** It will completely disable the music and sounds. 
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 +**Sound ​Volume:** Set the volume of sound effects and the music.
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 +The left panel allows you to change the default keys to your liking. Select the line you want to change and press the new key.
  
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-The left panel allows you to change ​the default keys to your liking. There'​s ​currently a weird bug where the key you type may appear ​in the bottom box in some sort of Japanese language, ignore it, the game will use the correct key you typed.+**Invert Mouse Wheel Zoom:** As the name implies, this option is used to decide ​the directions used by the mouse'​s ​wheel to zoom in and out.
  
 +**Show Help Tooltips:** If check a tooltip will appear when hovering the mouse on the buttons, located in the main menu bar, with a reminder of the keyboard shortcut and use of each button.
  
 **Show targeting lines in sector map:** In sector map mode, red lines will be drawn between fighting ships and blue lines between ships that are flying together if checked. **Show targeting lines in sector map:** In sector map mode, red lines will be drawn between fighting ships and blue lines between ships that are flying together if checked.
ug/game_settings.txt · Last modified: 2016/12/01 18:41 by serialkicked