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General Options
Screen Shake: Controls the screen shake when large impacts occur. Turning this off may help performance on old computers.
Full Graphical Effects: Controls the number of sprites,transparency effects and background objects used in some parts of the game. Turning this off may help performance on old computers.
All Menu GUI Effects: Controls the number of sprites and transparency effects used in some menus. Turning this off may help performance on old computers.
Show Near Background: Controls the closest layer of the scrolling background. Turning this off may help performance on old computers.
Show Tutorial: Enables or disables the tutorial text shown in the first chapter.
Full Screen Mode: Controls the screen mode for the game:
- Windowed Mode will display the game in a window at it's original size.
- Fullscreen 4:3 will display the game fullscreen in the lowest possible 4:3 ratio resolution. Some widescreen monitors may horizontally stretch the image.
- Fullscreen Custom will attempt to set a custom fullscreen resolution. Be warned that this mode also resizes the desktop and may move some icons around.
Music Volume: This slider bar controls the volume of music in the game.
Key Options
Keyboard shortcuts may be altered here. Scroll up and down by clicking and holding the left mouse button on the top and bottom arrows.
To change a key, left click on the appropriate slot then press the intended key.
Save Games
In version 103 and less, save games are held by default in a subdirectory of the main program directory called 'Saves\Stored'.
In version 104 and above, save games are held by default in a subdirectory of your 'My Documents' folder called 'My Games\The Spirit Engine 2\Saves\Stored'.
Each folder in the Saves directory holds 1 save game.
If you would like to add more slots for save games, you may do so by adding new folders to this directory with the appropriate file manager ( e.g. Windows Explorer for Windows machines )
If you would like to change the folder in which the game looks for its save files, edit the file game.ini in the subfolder of the main install: Data/Current . Change or add the following line:
Data Directory= ( no value, save in main install folder )
Data Directory=MYDOCS ( save in 'User\My Documents\My Games\The Spirit Engine 2' )
Data Directory=SAVEDGAMES ( save in 'User\Saved Games\The Spirit Engine 2' )
Data Directory=APPDATA ( save in 'Application Data\Roaming\The Spirit Engine 2' )
Data Directory=c:\mydir ( save in a user-specified folder - 'c:\mydir\The Spirit Engine 2' in this case )