# Console vs Graphical

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/console-vs-graphical/6029>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [May 4, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/console-vs-graphical/6029 "2014-05-04T16:24:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![noname1208](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/noname1208/32/23_2.png) [@noname1208](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/noname1208)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/console-vs-graphical/6029/1 "2014-05-04T16:24:02Z")

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I’m sorry if I’m missing something stupidly obvious or posting where someone else has (Only did a quick look around), but what is the difference between Console and Graphical? The obvious thing I’d think is one has tilesets and the other doesn’t, but I still have to disable tiles after I download Console. Are there any differences at all?

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/console-vs-graphical/6029/2 "2014-05-04T16:40:16Z")

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Console I think work better on older computers. [i]I think.

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**Author:** ![noname1208](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/noname1208/32/23_2.png) [@noname1208](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/noname1208)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/console-vs-graphical/6029/3 "2014-05-04T16:43:30Z")

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If that’s the case then it’s just better optimized? I guess that makes sence

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**Author:** ![infectedmochi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/infectedmochi/32/206_2.png) [@infectedmochi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/infectedmochi)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/console-vs-graphical/6029/4 "2014-05-04T16:59:56Z")

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As far as I know, Graphical can act strangely at times, partly due to the fairly recent move to SDL2. But yeah, the most noticable difference between them is one has titlesets (and sound support) and the other does not.

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/console-vs-graphical/6029/5 "2014-05-04T18:36:23Z")

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The technical difference is that the Console version uses Curses for all of it’s rendering and the Graphical version uses SDL2. This means that only Graphical will support tile sets (obviously) and that generally Console will run slightly faster on Linux/Mac while Graphical will run slightly faster on Windows.

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**Author:** ![noname1208](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/noname1208/32/23_2.png) [@noname1208](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/noname1208)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/console-vs-graphical/6029/6 "2014-05-04T21:23:21Z")

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Thank you all for the responses and thank you for the help, I’m all good and understanding now _Thumbs up_