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Disable Damage Textures: Turns off the textures used by the damage animations.
Disable Weapon/Defense Textures: Turns off the textures used by the weapon and defense
animations.
Disable Rally Point Textures: Turns off the textures for rally points.
Disable Asteroid Field Textures (Dark Avatar): Turns off the
textures for the asteroid fields
Disable Bump-Mapping: Decreases textural details.
Disable Point Sprites: Disables all animations and images that uses point sprites such as the
background stars and some weapon effects. Some older video cards do not support point sprites
except through emulation, so checking this option may increase performance.
Throttle Frame Rate: This option helps prevent your video card from overheating by making sure
th a t th e e n gin e d o e sn ’t try to re n d er to o m a n y fra m e s p e r se co n d .
Planet Surface Variety (%): If no pre-g e ne ra te d pla n e t su rfa ce s a re fo u n d fo r a give n plan et’s
habitability and class, a surface will be generated. This determines how many are randomly
generated and how many are re-used.
Getting the Most Out of the Game
W ha t? T his m a n u a l isn ’t e n o ug h ? C ertainly n ot!
There are a number of resources online that can help you get more information about the game
including:
GalCiv II Wikipedia:
http://galciv.wikia.com/
Databanks:
http://www.galciv2.com/Databanks.aspx
GalCiv II Forums:
http://forums.galciv2.com
Walkthru of How to Play the Game:
http://www.galciv2.com/walkthru
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