Settings Panel
Press Escape at any time during the game to open the Settings panel. From here you can tweak city and game aspects.
City Settings
City settings increase or decrease the number of missions and their difficulty.
Note: City settings are available only with User Cities and Tutorial City, not with Career Cities.
Graphics
Graphics settings let you change ambiance and flavor of how things look.
Note: Turning off textures, using lower resolution and moving the fog closer can improve performance.
Sound
The Sound panel gives you control of the sound and music.
Note: You can't turn off your dispatch radio, but you can turn the volume down so you can't hear it.
Controls
This screen shows the complete list of assigned keyboard and joystick commands. Change them to suit your tastes.
Changing Commands for Keyboards
1. Scroll through the list to the command you wish to change, then click on that command. Any keys currently assigned to that command are shown in green on the on-screen keyboard. Keys assigned to other commands are red. Unassigned keys are white. The gray keys are reserved (you can't use them).
2. To assign a command, click on an unassigned key. To remove an assignment, click on the green key for that command.
Note: You can have multiple keys assigned to one command.
Changing Commands for Joysticks
Make sure you have installed any driver that may have come with your joystick, and that you have calibrated your joystick using the Joystick settings on your Windows 95 Control Panel.
Your joystick may not have or use all the buttons on the joystick graphic. To see which buttons your joystick uses, note the graphic as you operate each of your joystick's buttons. If a single button on the graphic "depresses" when you use a button, that button can be assigned a command. If no buttons on the graphic depress, or if more than one button depresses, that button on your joystick cannot be assigned a command.
Commands can only be assigned command to buttons which do not have a command assignment. Buttons that have assignments are red in the graphic. To assign a command to a button which already has a command, you must first remove the command assigned from that button.
1. Click on each command in the list of commands. When a button in the graphic changes to green, it means that button has been assigned that command.
2 Click the mouse cursor on the green button to "unassign" that command.
3. Scroll through the list of commands to find the command you want assigned to that button. Click on that command to highlight it.
4. Click on the button in the graphic that you want the command assigned to. The button will turn green. The highlighted command is now assigned to that button.
Commands which are not assigned to a joystick button can still be accessed from your keyboard. No matter how you configure your joystick, you may still need the mouse cursor.
Save Game
Saves your game (Career or User City) under its current name and location. The first time you save a game, a standard dialog box lets you give it a name and location.
Save Game As
Opens a standard dialog box so you can change the name or location of your current game (either Career or User City).
Leave City
Closes the Settings panel and opens the Main Menu.
Continue
Closes the Settings panel and returns you to flying duties.