RTRVII preferences?

[GraaEminense]

After a bit of hassle I got access to the preferences editor in the RTRVII launcher.

I am obviously not very bright, I have no idea what most of them do. Feeling stupid, I'm hoping someone could enlighten me...

32bit UI? Obviously something to do with interface, but what?

AA quality? I have no idea.

Advanced stats always? What are these advanced stats, and what's the differences between always and sometimes?

Advisor verbosity? I get what it means, but not what it does.

Always logfile? Keep a game log, yes or no I guess?

Battle max resolution/battle resolution? What's the difference between these two?

Blind advisor? No idea.

Camera FOV? What does the number mean?

Cloud transitions?

GS log results, GS pids, GS pids cur, GS pids full? What's this GS?

Label characters/settlements?

Morale? Can I actually turn off morale/panic for the game?

Supply? Not used it says, so no hassle I guess.

TGA capture aspect/input scale/reserve space/width? I don't know what TGA is.

Most of the rest I think I get, but I am not savvy enough to figure these out by myself. Short explanation from someone more savvy would be very welcome. Condescention quite acceptable

Thanks in advance.

[HouseOfHam]

After a bit of hassle I got access to the preferences editor in the RTRVII launcher.

I am obviously not very bright, I have no idea what most of them do. Feeling stupid, I'm hoping someone could enlighten me...

32bit UI? Obviously something to do with interface, but what? As opposed to 16-bit

AA quality? I have no idea. Anti-Aliasing quality

Advanced stats always? What are these advanced stats, and what's the differences between always and sometimes? I think this controls whether you get 2nd scroll with additional settlement details when you open a settlement scroll

Advisor verbosity? I get what it means, but not what it does. The more verbose, the more advise you will get. Better leave it at 0.

Always logfile? Keep a game log, yes or no I guess? AFAIK, it does nothing

Battle max resolution/battle resolution? What's the difference between these two? Maximum you can set it to in game vs what it's currently set to

Blind advisor? No idea. Display advise without advisor (speech only). Turning this on would most likely interfere with the ability to start the background script.

Camera FOV? What does the number mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_view

Cloud transitions?

GS log results, GS pids, GS pids cur, GS pids full? What's this GS? GameSpy

Label characters/settlements? Whether to display labels over characters/settlements on the strategy map

Morale? Can I actually turn off morale/panic for the game? Yes, but why?

Supply? Not used it says, so no hassle I guess. Yup, this is something they never implemented, but didn't bother to clean up, either.

TGA capture aspect/input scale/reserve space/width? I don't know what TGA is. TGA is a graphics file format. This has to do with how screenshots come out for "normal" vs wide-screen displays. I'd leave it alone.

Most of the rest I think I get, but I am not savvy enough to figure these out by myself. Short explanation from someone more savvy would be very welcome. Condescention quite acceptable

Thanks in advance.

[GraaEminense]

Thank you!

This is why I love these fora

[Heinz Guderian]

+rep for the answers House of Ham as well as the avatar.

[Siimus Maximus]

How can I get access to editing this file? I want to change unlimited men in battle to true, but every time I try it says access denied.

[Maurits]

I think that's an UAC problem. You're most probably using either Windows Vista or 7, which makes it impossible for our launcher to edit the preferences.txt.

You should be able to edit it manually, though. Go to your RTW folder/RTRVII/preferences and there open the preferences.txt file. Change the correct line to either 'TRUE' or 'FALSE' and it should work