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Insaniquarium

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Insaniquarium
Insaniquarium cover
Developers
Flying Bear Entertainment
Publishers
PopCap Games
Engines
PopCap Games Framework
Release dates
Windows September 1, 2004
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General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Origin
Origin
Windows
Steam
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Insaniquarium Deluxe
Windows
Insaniquarium Deluxe is the full version of the game

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %PROGRAMDATA%\Steam\Insaniquarium\userdata[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only available resolution is 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Only available resolution is 640x480. Cannot be resized.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Low FPS

There are two ways of fixing the problem:

  • Disable hardware acceleration if fullscreen is on.
  • Play the game in a window. Hardware acceleration works fine while the game is windowed.

Inaccurate Music

Music produced by singing fish in the Virtual Tank is always one semitone lower than its proper notation, with the exception of Bach's Toccata in D Minor. This can be fixed by altering the files ding.ogg, dinghi.ogg, dinglo.ogg and dingsuperhi.ogg with Audacity or other audio-editing program. Check this reddit post for how to do it with Audacity. This will make the music play with the correct tone, aside from the aforementioned Toccata in D Minor, which then becomes one semitone higher instead.

Screensaver Not Working

In the Steam version only, a flaw in the installation results in the screensaver that that can be added to Windows through the game failing to work when activated. This can be fixed by deleting the folder C:\ProgramData\PopCap Games\Insaniquarium, which in other versions of the game contains the players' save files, but not in the Steam version. Then, opening the command prompt and running the command mklink /J "C:\ProgramData\PopCap Games\Insaniquarium" "C:\ProgramData\Steam\Insaniquarium" will make the game access the correct folder, allowing the screensaver to work properly.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio BASS

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 700 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/3320/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (3320) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References