You can reach the game settings from the main menu or in-game pause menu by selecting SETTINGS. The settings menu contains 5-7 tabs (depending on the connected input devices):

• Interface
• Mouse (only shown if a mouse is connected)
• Keyboard (only shown if a keyboard is connected)
• Controller (only shown if a controller is connected)
• Graphics
• Audio
• Advanced

Transport Fever 2 can be played in windowed, borderless and fullscreen mode. It is possible to switch between them by pressing ALT + ENTER / ⌥ + ENTER. The resolution for fullscreen mode can only be set from the main menu, not in-game.

The visualization is one of the performance bottlenecks. Thus it is important to find the right balance between good performance and beautiful graphics. There are several aspects available for adjusting. It's possible to use a preset too:

Beside the above settings, there are several other settings:

• Graphic API selects the used graphic library, this is either OpenGL or Vulkan. By default Vulkan is selected.
• If VSync is set to true, the framerate is adjusted to 30/60fps if possible, otherwise it is not limited.
• The Bloom setting can be used to disable or enable the bloom effect of light sources.

The game provides background music as well as a voice over in the campaign. It is possible to:

• Disable Music completely
• Disable Menu music
• Disable Voice-over

Furthermore the volume can be adjusted for:

• All sounds and music (master)
• Sound effects
• Music
• Voice-over

Some sound effects can also be disabled completely:

• Bulldozer sounds
• Construction sounds

The settings concerning input devices are explained in the controls section.

In the main menu, the Language to be used in the game can be changed. See the languages page for a list of currently supported languages.

On PC, the User interface mode can be selected. Classic is the traditional UI which only supports mouse and keyboard as input devices. Controller UI also supports game controllers as input devices.

If Controller UI is selected, it is possible to enable mouse and keyboard input with the Enable mouse/keyboard setting.

The Interface can be scaled depending on the screen resolution or window size. Automatic scaling can be disabled and a scaling factor between 75% and 200% can be chosen.

It is possible to adjust the technical and measurement units to either use metric or imperial ones.

If a vehicle gets to the end of its lifetime, a message can be shown to the user. The interval for the age check can be set and the type of message can be selected.

Additionally notifications for new Town cargo needs, Industry closure and Industry spawning can be disabled.

In the Classic UI, it is possible to define the default behavior when buying vehicles. You can choose when the vehicle window should be opened after purchase: Never, only for the First vehicle or for All vehicles.

The guide system highlights features with a yellow color and assists with small hints when the player uses some features for the first time. It can be deactivated from the settings menu too.

The game automatically autosaves the current game in periodic intervals. The interval length as well as the number of stored autosaves can be changed in the settings.

There are several other options available:

• With Use hardware mouse cursor, the cursor is rendered by the operating system.
• When Send crash reports is active before the game crashes, an anonymized crash report is sent to Urban Games to help bugtracking.
• If the used hardware (CPU, GPU, RAM) is not supported by the game and Show unsupported hardware warning is active, there is a warning box in the main menu to notify the user of this circumstance.
• The camera tool can be activated with Enable camera tool
• The same is possible for debug mode with Debug mode
• If some game resources are missing and Show missing resources dialog is active, a warning box will be shown in-game to notify the user of this circumstance.

The OPEN USERDATA FOLDER buttonPressing opens a file browser and navigates to the Transport Fever 2 userdata folder.

Additional advanced settings are available in the settings.lua file. These settings should be changed, before the game is started.