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| - | <WRAP centeralign>====== Game Settings ======</WRAP> | + | <WRAP centeralign> |
| + | ====== Game Settings ====== | ||
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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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| - | <WRAP centeralign>==== Video and Sound Settings ====</WRAP> | + | <WRAP centeralign> |
| + | ==== Video and Sound Settings ==== | ||
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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 slower it may be depending on your graphic card and overall system performance. |
| - | **Windowed Mode:** Allows you to toggle full-screen mode on/off. | + | **Windowed Mode:** Allows you to toggle full-screen mode off/on. |
| - | **Show FPS counter:** Show in the bottom-left corner of the screen an approximation of the number of frames per seconds that are displayed. | + | **Show FPS counter:** In the bottom-left corner of the screen an approximation of the number of frames per seconds are displayed. |
| - | **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 in order to increase the FPS a bit. |
| - | **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 surely don't need it to run at 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 computer supports the //full hardware acceleration// setting, this will improve the graphics noticeably by applying a slight shading effect. But 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 thu number will improve performance on slower 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** This will completely disable the in-game music and sounds. | ||
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| + | **Sound Volume:** Sets the volume of sound effects and the music. | ||
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| - | <WRAP centeralign>==== Controls ====</WRAP> | + | <WRAP centeralign> |
| + | ==== Controls ==== | ||
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| + | The left panel allows you to change the default pre-set 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 set the direction of the mouse wheel while zooming. |
| + | **Show Help Tooltips:** If checked, a tooltip will appear in the game when hovering the mouse over the buttons in the main menu bar. The tooltip shows the associated keyboard shortcut and an overview of the button's function. | ||
| - | **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:** If checked, the sector map mode shows red lines drawn between fighting ships and blue lines between ships that are flying together. |
| - | **Debug: Enable Event Logging:** If checked, the game will periodically save a log file in the "debug" folder. Check this if you are planning on reporting bugs on the forum. | + | **Debug: Enable Event Logging:** If checked, the game will periodically save a log file in the "debug" folder. Check this if you are planning on reporting bugs on the forums. |
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