{"id":173,"date":"2026-08-16T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:55:19","slug":"settings-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Settings &#038; Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>What it is<\/h2><p>The settings screen (title and pause menu) controls performance, appearance and comfort. The <strong>adaptive quality governor<\/strong> watches your FPS and trims effects automatically if it dips below 30, restoring them when performance recovers to 55+.<\/p><h2>Settings worth knowing<\/h2><ul><li><strong>Quality<\/strong> \u2014 manual preset; changing it resets auto-trims.<\/li><li><strong>Chicken texture atlas (faster)<\/strong> \u2014 batches all chicken sprites into one draw call; great on low-end devices.<\/li><li><strong>Defence help on hover<\/strong> \u2014 turn off once you know your towers so the guide never covers the bar.<\/li><li><strong>Language<\/strong> \u2014 six languages included; switch any time, even mid-siege.<\/li><li><strong>Battle speed (B)<\/strong> \u2014 double game speed for grinding.<\/li><\/ul><h2>Pro tips<\/h2><p>On a phone or low-end laptop, enable the atlas and let the governor do its job \u2014 it trims effects before they hurt your run, never the other way around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What it is The settings screen (title and pause menu) controls performance, appearance and comfort. The adaptive quality governor watches your FPS and trims effects automatically if it dips below 30, restoring them when performance recovers to 55+. Settings worth knowing Quality \u2014 manual preset; changing it resets auto-trims. Chicken texture atlas (faster) \u2014 batches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chickensiege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}