Manual Options
Original 1996 manual, converted verbatim from the game's manual.doc.
This takes you to the general options for Enemy Nations™.
The game Speed, Sound, and Music volume can all be set in the game while it is playing, but you can also set it here.
Enemy Nations™ is designed to be run with the speed set at the middle. However, if you want a slower or faster game, the speed can be set from half to double. If you do change the speed, then the game clock will run at that set speed instead of clicking over 1 second for every real-time second.
To turn the sound off, move the slider all the way to the left. The sound volume is for all sounds except music.
Online Manual brings up the online help.
Version brings up a dialog listing the version of Enemy Nations™, Windows, and the various libraries Enemy Nations™ is using.
Advanced brings up this dialog. It is STRONGLY recommended that you do not change anything in this dialog.
Screen Drawing determines which method Enemy Nations™ uses to BLT it's images to the screen. They are ordered from the fastest at the top to the safest at the bottom.
Note: Under Windows 3.1 only WinG and SetDIBBitsToDevice are available. Under Win/NT 3.51 DirectDraw is not available.
Color Depth determines which set of art of use in the game. Enemy Nations™ includes 8, 15, 16, 24, & 32-bit art. The higher the bit depth, the more realistic the art will look. However, the higher bit-depth art takes longer to load and requires more memory.
Pause when lose focus, if set, will pause the game if you switch to another application. This is ignored if you join a multi-player game.
Zoom Levels determines if the art for zoom level 0 is loaded (there are 4 zoom levels, 0 - 3). This is the closest in zoom and is rarely needed for game play - but it sure looks beautiful. As with color depth, including zoom level 0 requires more memory and takes longer to load.
Music determines if it should use 16-bit, 22KHz sound effects and music or if it should use 8-bit, 11KHz sound effects and MIDI music. The first (Digital Audio) is very close to CD-Audio quality but requires a fast CD and CPU. The second (MIDI) provides decent sound and can run on slower systems.
Language determines which language to run Enemy Nations™ under. This will list all languages included on the CD. If not set, Enemy Nations™ will use the language Windows is running in, if available.
Scroll Bars will place scroll bars in the main map window(s). If you like using scroll bars set this. However, in our opinion, it detracts greatly from the look of the game.
The file en_ini.wri discusses all other settings for Enemy Nations™. These settings are not available from a dialog box for a reason – you generally should not touch them.
But they are documented because they allow more control over the game and you may wish to exercise that control. If you make changes in enations.ini and then the game will not run – delete the file enations.ini and everything will revert back to it's default.