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Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine

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Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine cover
Developers
LucasArts
Publishers
LucasArts
Engines
Jones
Release dates
Windows November 23, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure, Action, Puzzle, Shooter, TPS
Art styles Realistic
Themes Cold War, Egypt
Series Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine on HowLongToBeat
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine on IGDB
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine on MobyGames
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine on Wikipedia
Indiana Jones
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure 1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game 1989
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis 1992
Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures 1996
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine 1999
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Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is a singleplayer third-person adventure, action, puzzle, shooter and TPS game in the Indiana Jones series.

DREAMM can be used to run the retail/digital versions on modern systems.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Italian release has SecuROM DRM.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
A demo is available.

Essential improvements

Patches

  • Patch 1.2 fixes weird camera angles on level start, sound glitches, the control menu, as well as graphical and AI issues in some levels.

Wrappers

Use DSOAL to restore 3D sound capability and fix missing sound effects on Windows Vista and newer.[1]

Game data

Gameplay options.
Gameplay options.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC\Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/904540/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SaveGames\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/904540/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Advanced display settings.
Advanced display settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only available in GOG version. Screen change is Vert-. HUD elements may be cropped.[Note 3]
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Unusable due to Vert- screen change and cropped HUD.
4K Ultra HD
Maximum resolution of 2048x2048 by default; use dgVoodoo 2 and force in dgVoodoo Control Panel.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Double or triple buffered, always on. Force off in GPU control panel to disable.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Uncapped framerate when V-Sync disabled. Game speed tied to framerate. Becomes unplayable when over ~160 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Control Mappings.
Control Mappings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
GOG version crashes when trying to rebind keys.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Maximum of 8 buttons and 1 control stick.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse acts like joystick, except in configuration pop-up windows and launcher.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
PlayStation controllers
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio options.
Audio options.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Use DirectSound3D restoration software on Windows Vista and later.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Prone to crash on Alt+Tab ; use dgVoodoo 2 to reduce them.
EAX support
Enable 3D Sound in-game.
Use DSOAL for OpenAL Soft HRTF.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
For GOG.com version, see this thread.
German
For GOG.com version, see this thread.
Italian
Retail version only. For Steam version, see this thread.
Brazilian Portuguese
Translation.
Spanish
Castilian.
For GOG.com version, see this thread. For Steam version, see this thread.

Issues fixed

Installing retail version on modern systems

The following installer should get around an issue related to the game not installing on 64-bit operating systems.
Instructions[2]
  1. Extract the contents from Disc 1 and Disc 2 in a folder.
  2. Download this installer (alternate) and extract it in the same folder, then run it.

Level 7 Crash

Instructions[3]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\Resource\Cog\TEM_introCut.cog with a text editor.
  2. Find line 171.
  3. Add player = GetLocalPlayerThing(); below # Draw imp#1 and above SelectWeapon(player, 14);.
  4. Save and close the file.

Indy gets stuck

Press F10 while in the game and type in fixme

Settings don't save/not working

(Workaround) Externally adjust settings[4]

Change the settings manually according to the Configuration files location.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.1 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>/904540/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (904540) 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).
  3. Not all resolutions may appear when using dgVoodoo 2. If this occurs, select a lower resolution with the same desired aspect ratio and bit depth and force the desired resolution in the dgVoodoo Control Panel instead. Creating a custom resolution may be necessary for widescreen if this happens.

References

  1. Indiana Jones & The Infernal Machine OpenAL Soft HRTF (DSOAL) - YouTube - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Markus Egger's Homepage - Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Bug starting level 7 - Steam Discussions - last accessed on May 2023
  4. Verified by User:Scottvordem on 2023-07-02
    Tested several times. Settings save/change much more reliably.