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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. |