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====== Game Settings ======
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.
==== Video and Sound Settings ====
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.
Windowed Mode: Allows you to toggle full-screen mode on/off.
Show FPS counter: Show in the bottom-left corner of the screen an approximation of the number of frames per seconds that are displayed.
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 200 FPS. Disabling this setting may render the user interface mush less responsive.
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 will improve performances on older hardware.
Full Hardware Acceleration Switches between two rendering methods. Check the troubleshooting page for additional details.
Disable Sound It will completely disable the music and sounds.
Sound Volume: Set the volume of sound effects and the music.
==== Controls ====
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.
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.
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.
