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Settings
For info on how to permanently change various game settings, see the file binaries\data\config\default.cfg (can be found in the folder where 0 A.D. is installed, which varies on different operating systems, or here : http://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser/ps/trunk/binaries/data/config/default.cfg ). To change a setting, create a new local settings file. The path varies by your OS, see GameDataPaths. Open the new file in your text editor of choice, and copy any lines you want to change from default.cfg
into the new local.cfg
.
Graphics Settings
There are a few settings you can change via the in-game menu as well. You do that by clicking on Menu, then Settings, and there check/uncheck the Enable Water Reflections, and Enable Shadows checkboxes. This can be helpful if the game is slow.
Here are the main graphics settings you may be interested in changing:
- Windowed: If you want to always start the game in windowed mode instead of fullscreen or if you're using OS X (see #741 and #1593), then add
windowed=true
. You can also adjust the game window size by settingxres
andyres
to reasonable values (the minimum supported window size is 1024x768). - Fancy water: If you have an older graphics card, or just don't want all the fancy effects, you can disable them by adding the following lines:
waternormals = false waterrealdepth = false waterfoam = false watercoastalwaves = false waterrefraction = false waterreflection = false watershadows = false
- Shadows: You can disable shadows by adding
shadows=false
. - Particles: You can disable particles by adding
particles=false
. - Render path: If you have any problems with graphics due to an older graphics card, add the line
renderpath=fixed
to test the game without shaders. If this fixes the problems, please report it as a bug to us.
Advanced graphics (GLSL only)
If you are using the shader renderpath and have a graphics card/driver with good OpenGL 2.1 support, you can enable some experimental graphics effects by setting preferglsl=true
. These include:
- Distance fog. Applies a subtle fog effect on distant terrain and objects.
- Smooth LOS. Smooths the movement of the "line of sight" (aka. "fog of war") around units. Enabled by setting
smoothlos=true
. - Advanced mapping effects on buildings (such as AO, parallax, normal and specular mapping). First you need to set
gentangents=true
, and then depending on your hardware, you can setmaterialmgr.quality=10
to enable all the effects,5
to enable only some of the effects, or0
to turn them off. - Postprocessing. Enables additional effects, such as brightness/contrast control, depth-of-field, LDR bloom, etc. Set
postproc=true
. - Fancy water settings. Enables more realistic water effects like depth-based color, surface shadows, coastal foam and waves. See
waternormals
,waterrealdepth
,waterfoam
,watercoastalwaves
,waterrefraction
,waterreflection
, andwatershadows
settings.
1. Windowed Mode
Toggles on/off the windowed mode, note that you will have to restart the game in order to make it work. Another solution is pressing Alt+Enter .
2. Background Pause
When on if you put 0ad in the background (e.g. by pressing Alt+Tab the game will be paused.
3. Disable Welcome Screen
Displays the welcome screen at each game launch.
4. Detailed Tooltips
Displays detailed tooltips when hovering over interactive elements.
5. F.P.S. Overlay
Display a F.P.S.(Frames Per Second) counter on the left side of the screen.
6. Real Time Overlay
Display the clock matching your time zone on the left side of the screen.
7. Game Time Overlay
Display the elapsed time on the left side of the screen.
8. Game Time Overlay
Memorize the game settings you last played, this way you don't have to set every options every time you want to play.
9. Prefer GLSL
Tick this to use OPENGL 2.0 Shaders.
IMPORTANT NOTE : If you are using an Integrated Chipset such as Intel HD Graphics, this should be set to on in order to prevent screen corruption.
Sound Settings
IMPORTANT NOTE: You have to press ENTER after setting a value in the form in order to save the parameters.
24. Master Gain
Controls the volume in general. Max is 10.0 and min 0.0.
25. Music Gain
Controls the music volume. Max is 10.0 and min 0.0.
26. Ambient Gain
Controls the ambient Sound volume (ie : nature). Max is 10.0 and min 0.0.
27. Action Gain
Controls the Unit Sound volume (ie : units chopping trees). Max is 10.0 and min 0.0.
28. Action Gain
Controls the UI (User Interface) volume (ie : button sound.). Max is 10.0 and min 0.0.
Keyboard Shortcuts
The keyboard shortcuts can be changed with the same process outlined above, just copy the relevant line from the default.cfg
file to the local.cfg
and change the part after the equal sign (=) and before the semicolon (;). For shortcut key combinations edit the keys between the quotation marks (""), and use a plus sign (+) to tie together more than one key (so don't remove it unless you change a multi-key shortcut to a single key shortcut).
Some keyboards (most notably AZERTY ones) have keys where the default character isn't present in the ASCII alphabet. For those keyboards, there are special configurations needed per keyboard layout and per OS. You can find your needed configurations below.
On Linux, you should have for French and Belgian layout:
- é = World73 (or W73)
- § = World7 (or W7)
- è = World72 (or W72)
- ç = World71 (or W71)
- à = World64 (or W64)
On OSX, French layout:
- é = World0 (or W0)
- è = World3 (or W3)
- ç = World2 (or W2)
- à = World4 (or W4)
Theses special keys are not needed under Windows as the the game developer had to build a custom key manager.
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