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The number of the current player. Players with low numbers are chosen before players with higher numbers, so for example if three players are needed in a race the players numbered 1, 2 and 3 will be used.

The name of the player. It is used in a number of places in the game, but not in the Time Trial mode.

The input device that the user wants to use to control the car. It is possible to choose between keyboard, mouse and other game controllers that are currently connected (joystick, gamepad, etc.).

The key (or button, stick, etc.) to make the car move forward.

The key to brake the car: It can also be used to drive in reverse.

The key to turn left (from the car's perspective).

The key to turn right

The player's difficulty level. If the value is default the difficuly level is decided by the race settings.

The total number of road tiles that the track consists of.

The horizontal distance between the leftmost and rightmost road tiles.

The vertical distance between the topmost and bottommost road tiles.

The percentage of all road tiles that turn 90°.

The longest series of straight road tiles.

The longest series of corner tiles.

The game uses 320×240 pixels but nowadays most screens are much bigger so the graphics has to be scaled up, using one of three different methods.

Scaler	Description	Preview
nearest neighbor	Each pixel is made into a larger rectangle which gives it a pixelated look. This is the default because it's the fastest scaling algorithm and it preserves how the game is supposed to look.
hqx	An advanced scaling algorithm that produces smooth but still sharp looking graphics. The game makes use of the hqx library with some minor modifications.
bilinear	The distance and colour values of the surrounding pixels are used when calulating the pixel colours of the scaled image. The result is often perceived as blurry.
bilinear (less blur)	Similar to bilinear scaling but less blurry.

By default the graphics is only scaled up to a multiple of the original size to ensure good performance, but it's possible to stretch the graphics so that it covers the whole screen if you want to. Stretching with nearest neighbor or hqx can be relatively slow. The bilinear scaling methods handle stretching more efficent.

The appearance of the mouse pointer.

Whether or not to scale the mouse pointer the same way as the rest of the game graphics.

Decides if the game should start in window of fullscreen mode.

The fullscreen mode uses the same resolution as the desktop environment by default. This is probably nothing you want to change unless it gives you performance problems. Make sure your monitor can handle the new resolution before changing it. The change will take effect next time you start the game.

A list of port numbers to be used when playing over the local network. A port number can only be used by one program at a time on the same computer so by having more than one number listed the chances of at least one of them being available increases. To be sure the computers can find each other all of them should use the same list of numbers.

A list of port numbers that can be used when playing over the Internet. The first port number in the list that is available when connecting to the Internet will be used. If the value is auto the port is selected by picking the highest available number in the range 1024-65535.In order to allow multiple computers to use the same public IP home routers often translate port numbers so that a different port number is being used outside the local network. Depending on the other players and in what order they connect this can prevent you from communicating with each other. To fix this problem there is a feature many routers have called port forwarding that you can use to force a certain port number when being used from a certain computer to be translated to the same number outside the local network. See your router's manual for details.

An address to the server that handles the list of connected computers.

The maximum number of computers that your computer is allowed to communicate with at the same time. Note that Internet servers might have their own limits that are lower.

The size of the chat text. A big text might be easier to read but it also covers a larger portion of the screen compared to a small text.

The maximum number of chat messages to show at the same time. The oldest messages are removed to make room for a new ones if necessary.

The maximum amount of time to show a chat message.