¶ Basics
Welcome to the settings menu — the place where you change stuff and pretend you totally knew what it did.
Press ESC on your keyboard to open it.
¶ Menu showcase
¶ Game FPS
Glitchout automatically matches its FPS cap to the refresh rate of the screen you're using.
So if you have:
- Main monitor: 144 Hz
- Second monitor: 60 Hz
Glitchout will run at:
- 144 FPS on the 144 Hz monitor
- 60 FPS on the 60 Hz monitor
Move the game between monitors and the FPS cap updates automatically.
🤓 Nerd note:
Hz means how many times your monitor can refresh the image every second.
A 144 Hz monitor can show up to 144 new images per second.
More Hz = smoother pixels doing zoomies.
¶ Resolution
Glitchout currently supports two modes:
- Windowed — resize the window however you want.
- Fullscreen — uses your monitor's native resolution automatically.
🤓 Nerd note:
"Native resolution" is basically the resolution your monitor was born to use.
Example:
If your monitor is 2560×1440, fullscreen will use 2560×1440.
No resolution calculus required.
¶ Encryption Algorithm
Glitchout supports:
- Aegis256
- XChaCha20Poly1305
¶ Platform defaults
Desktop: Aegis256
Windows, Linux, and eventually macOS.
Mobile: XChaCha20Poly1305
Android and iOS.
Aegis256 is disabled on mobile.
¶ Extra network usage
Encryption adds a tiny amount of extra data to every message sent or received.
- XChaCha20Poly1305: +80 bytes
- Aegis256: +128 bytes
🤓 Nerd note:
A "byte" is a tiny piece of data.
For comparison, 1 MB = roughly 1,000,000 bytes.
So no, your internet bill is not going to explode because Aegis added 48 extra bytes.
¶ Which one should I use?
¶ Aegis256
Use this if you want maximum speed.
It can use special CPU instructions, which makes it extremely fast on supported desktop hardware.
Translation: CPU goes brrrr.
¶ XChaCha20Poly1305
Use this if you want to use slightly less network data.
It is also very fast and is the option used on mobile.
¶ Security?
Both are secure when used on their supported platforms.
For normal Glitchout packets, you're probably not going to notice a meaningful performance difference anyway.
So:
Performance goblin: → Aegis256
Bandwidth goblin: → XChaCha20Poly1305
🤓 Nerd note:
Encryption turns your data into unreadable garbage for anyone who isn't supposed to read it.
Basically:
hello bro
becomes
$#@F8a91xQ...
Very scientific. Very hacker. Very encrypted.
¶ Redeem Box
Got a redeem code from us?
Put it here.
Receive thing.
Neuron activation.
¶ Sound Settings
There is currently one volume setting for all in-game sounds.
It uses a percentage:
- 100% — full volume
- 50% — half volume
- 0% — Glitchout has taken a vow of silence
More individual sound settings may come later.
🤓 Nerd note:
0% means no sound.
Thank you for attending this advanced audio engineering course.