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Revision as of 07:13, 21 January 2017

Messiah
Messiah cover
Developers
Shiny Entertainment
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
Windows March 31, 2000
Messiah on Wikipedia

General information

Official game site
Official support page
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Updated with compatibility for modern systems. Comes pre-configured with nGlide.
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

version 02 patch is the latest version.

Manuals, etc.

All of the downloads available for the game can be found on the official support page.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/577980/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/577980/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Fix slowdown and 32-bit color

In modern GPUs the game has severe slowdown issues and is locked to 16-bit color only support. This can be addressed by the game itself, but it requires either a custom shortcut or running the game from the command line:

Instructions

Other information

Command line arguments

Parameter Function
-i Skip intro logos
-s Disable sound
-o Disable Fog
-v Disable mip-mapping
+! Fixes Windows 2000 crashes on some machines when switching from the game to the game menu.
-p Will disable any gamma control for users who wish to use their windows gamma and not in game gamma settings.
+T Enables verbose debug information for sound cards.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References