Settings

Settings

Setting	Description
Language	Change the UI language. Unsupported languages still properly name units, buildings & technologies.
Allow anonymous user statistics	Allowing this setting will help us immensely to make CA:DE better™ - no personal data is stored!
Minimal UI	[Experimental] Reduce the amount of information on the UI so you can focus on the game.
UI Offsets	Several options of offset some UI elements. Should help out streamers with their chat, webcam and other stats.
Zoom Speed	The amount of zoom per mouse wheel tick.
Zoom Duration	How long it takes to zoom from one tick to another.
Edge Scroll Speed	How fast does the camera move when you move your mouse to the edge of the screen.
Lock mouse to window	prevent to mouse cursor from leaving the CA:DE window.

Sound

Setting	Description
Output volume	Overall output volume.
Selection volume	Volume of sounds played when selecting a unit or building.
Villager volume	Volume of sounds made by Villagers, like lumberjack chopping wood.
Combat volume	Volume of sounds made by units fighting.
Critters volume	Volume of sounds made by Critters like wolfes, bears etc.

Graphics

Setting	Description
Enable Enhanced Graphics DLC	Experimental: Enable CA:DE to use the Enable Enhanced Graphics DLC. Do not enable this if you do not have Enable Enhanced Graphics DLC downloaded. Does not need to be enabled inside AoE2:DE, just downloaded.
Unit shadow texture filtering	Enable unit shadow texture filtering.
Unit texture filtering	Enable unit texture filtering.
Unit damage filtering	Enable unit damage filtering.
Particle texture filtering	Enable particle texture filtering.
Terrain texture filtering	Enable unit shadow texture filtering.
Enable graphics mods	Experimental: Set CA:DE to use the graphics mods currently enabled in AoE2:DE.
Use extra video memory	Experimental: Set CA:DE to use more GPU memory. This will reset after a restart of CA:DE
Terrain grid intensity	Set the intensity of CA:DE's terrain grid. (0 to disable)
Gamma	Set the gamma value to use.
Saturation	Set the saturation value to use.
Contrast	Set the contrast value to use.
Brightness	Set the brightness value to use.
Bloom	Enable Bloom.
FXAA	Enable FXAA Anti-aliasing.

Casting

The settings in the menu will only show up if you enable the scoreboard by clicking on the button.

Setting	Description
Best of/Play all X	Updates the scoreboard and sets the amount of dots below.
[empty space]	A place to add additional information - e.g. "Round of 16" or "Hidden Cup 3".
[Rotate Arrows]	Switch sides of the teams on the scoreboard - allows you to match the scoreboard and map positions of players/teams.
[Name][Name]	Two options to change the names shown on the scoreboard. They are kept between rounds.
[Dots]	Click a dot to cycle between colors to indicate the winner color. This will automatically update the score. You can also click these on the overlay scoreboard.
Reset	Resets all values and resets the players names to ones from the game.
Disable	Disable and hides the scoreboard again.
Zoom preset 1, 2, 3	Allows you to adjust the three different zoom level presets for the corresponding hotkeys.