Video Options Menu in Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth (Civ:BE)

These are the Video options in the game Civilization Beyond Earth (CivBE)

Screen Resolution[edit]

This displays a list of available game resolutions for your monitor.

Anti-Aliasing[edit]

Turn this on to smooth the graphical edges in the game; improves quality with more powerful hardware.

Full Screen[edit]

This allows you to choose whether to play in full screen mode or in a window.

V-Sync[edit]

Turning this on prevents video “tearing” by locking the frame rate. (It is suggested that you leave this on unless you are an advanced user.)

Graphics Profile[edit]

Will set the following graphic quality aspects as a group; “Custom” allows the user to determine each individually.

Leader Scene Quality[edit]

Affects the quality (minimum to high) of the image of the leader scenes.

Overlay Detail[edit]

Affects the quality (low to high) of the overlays.

Shadow Quality[edit]

Affects the quality (off to high) of shadows of units, buildings and other non-terrain items.

Fog of War Quality[edit]

Affects the quality (low or high) of the Fog of War. Terrain Detail Level==Determines the level (minimum to high) of texture detail of the terrain.

Terrain Tessellation Level[edit]

Determines the level (low to high) of mesh detail of the terrain.

Terrain Shadow Quality[edit]

Determines the quality (off to high) of shadows of terrain.

Water Quality[edit]

Determines the quality (low or high) of the water.

Effects Quality[edit]

Determines the quality (low or high) of the special effects in the game