Settings

Graphics Settings

To switch between Windowed and Fullscreen mode in-game press Alt+Enter. 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.

To permanently set various graphic settings see the file binaries\data\config\default.cfg. To change a setting, create a new file, on Windows, create: %appdata%/0ad/config/local.cfg, on Linux/OS X, create: ~/.config/0ad/config/local.cfg. Open either of these files in Notepad (or Linux/Mac equivalent), and copy any lines you want to change from default.cfg into the new local.cfg. Here are the main ones you might be interested in changing:

• Render path: If you have any problems with graphics due to an older graphics card, add the line renderpath=fixed to make sure 0 A.D. uses no shaders. If this fixes the problems, please report it as a bug to us.
• Fancy water: Again, if you have an older graphics card, or just don't want all the fancy effects, you can disable pixel-shaded water by adding fancywater=false.

You can also set the game to run in windowed mode in a local.cfg, please see the default.cfg for info on how to do it.

Sound Settings

To change whether or not music plays in game bring up the in-game menu by clicking on Menu, then Settings, and there check/uncheck the Enable Music checkbox.