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Advent Rising

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Advent Rising
Advent Rising cover
Developers
GlyphX Games
Publishers
Majesco
Engines
Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows May 31, 2005
Advent Rising on Wikipedia

Key points

Advent Revising is recommended for installation.
No official patches released
Shadows do not work on modern cards.
XInput controllers can be configured to work by modifying .ini file.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Included with extras.
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Advent Revising

Advent Revising is an unofficial patch that focuses on improving and fixing cinematics and minor gameplay issues. It features:
  • Corrections to the majority of cut-scenes and subtitles (fixes to audio desync, sound errors, playback speed...)
  • 12 missing Xbox cutscenes
  • Adjustments to .ini files (removing black bars, enabling trilinear and Vsync, adding extra keybindings...)
  • Corrections to a few problems with objectives, weapons, weapon screens, and descriptions

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3800/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3800/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings
Video settings
Graphics settings
Graphics settings

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions
FOV 75 (Default) FOV 90 FOV 105
Advent FOV-75.png
Advent FOV-90.png
Advent FOV-105.png

Windowed

Instructions

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Installing Advent Revising already turns Vsync on, but if you want to turn it on manually:
Instructions

Input settings

Input settings
Input settings

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Xbox 360 Controller

The game doesn't support Xbox 360 controller natively, but it can be configured to work in this game.
Instructions

Audio settings

Audio settings
Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Brazilian Portuguese
German
Hungarian

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
Works (not officially supported).[1][2]
A Novint Falcon version was announced (titled Ascension Reborn) but was never released.[3]

Issues unresolved

Game crashing

The game sometimes crashes, mostly at the beginning when entering the hangar. Regardless of the crash, the game will likely be saved before the crash so you don't lose the progress and likely will not crash. If it still does, try doing something that will break the cycle (like going to the menu) and if it doesn't, then reinstall the game or install outside Program Files.

Broken Shadows

The game lacks any shadows on NVIDIA based cards and possibly newer AMD cards. According to this post here shadows will display on an ATI 9800 Pro card.

Issues fixed

Incessant camera spinning

If you feel dizzy of constant camera spinning, make sure, one step at a time to:
Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5.5 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
These system requirements are for the GOG.com version of Advent Rising. Other system requirements may differ.

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>/3800/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (3800) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References