Why my eyes are tired after looking at 0AD screen (playing, observing, lobby reading, etc.)

[Deicide4u]

@BeTe

I'm bit biased here, as it is my mod and all, but you could try installing the Imperia Vetera mod for alpha 9. Just to see if that old "look" will suit your eyes. It's there in my signature, or here if you aren't logged in. You'd need the Alpha 9 exe in order to install it. I'm assuming you have Wine installed if you're playing Brood War on Linux.
https://releases.wildfiregames.com/0ad-r11339-alpha-win32.exe
 

Of course, there is no Multiplayer, and the features are pretty bare-bones. Nevertheless, the game did look different at one point in time.

[vladislavbelov]

6 hours ago, BeTe said:

there's no some "clean graphics"/low-performance mod.

It depends on a platform so generally we just provide options to control quality.

About the first screenshots you could do the following:

• Disable Post-processing
• Disable Shadows
• Disable Unit silhouettes
• Disable Particles
• Set Model quality to Low
• Move the Shader rffects slider to the left
• Disable Water effects
• Set Texture quality to Low
• Set Texture anisotropic filter to 1x

Also you could try to test different combinations of OpenGL/Vulkan (Renderer backend) + GPU skinning on/off

[BeTe]

1 hour ago, vladislavbelov said:

It depends on a platform so generally we just provide options to control quality.

About the first screenshots you could do the following:

• Disable Post-processing
• Disable Shadows
• Disable Unit silhouettes
• Disable Particles
• Set Model quality to Low
• Move the Shader rffects slider to the left
• Disable Water effects
• Set Texture quality to Low
• Set Texture anisotropic filter to 1x

Also you could try to test different combinations of OpenGL/Vulkan (Renderer backend) + GPU skinning on/off

Tried all that. Silhouttes is only way to see my units on this chaos of graphics - so I must have it turned on.

I tried to install ModernGui mod , maybe texts are weird (and I think they are, especially when UI zoom to 125%). Will see and experiment with everything a bit more. But I kinda lost motivation. I am struggling with this game for few years, comming, going away and returning.