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Beyond Good & Evil

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Beyond Good & Evil
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Developers
Ubisoft Montpellier
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
Jade
Release dates
Windows November 19, 2003
Beyond Good & Evil on Wikipedia

General information

Ubisoft game page
Ubisoft forums
The IRIS Network - A wiki for the game
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Version differences

Every version except GOG.com uses Tages DRM, which isn't completely compatible with modern OS and systems.[citation needed]
The GOG.com version has been modified to work with modern system directly including multithread wrapper and doesn't include DRM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15130/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15130/pfx/[Note 1]
sally.idx contains an index of save game names which will not be shown if it is missing (saves can still be loaded).[1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

External general video settings.
External general video settings.
External advanced video settings.
External advanced video settings.
Options can only be changed in a launcher

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Widescreen resolution

All resolutions stretch from 4:3 without this fix.
Because the game is internally rendered in a 16:9.4 aspect ratio instead of 16:9, you will see some very small borders on both sides of the game when playing in 16:9.
Instructions

Input settings

External key map settings.
External key map settings.

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Audio settings

External audio settings.
External audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State GG3D Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision

Issues unresolved

Alt-Tab

Alt+Tab functions while in-game, but the window title bar will flicker in the game itself.

Issues fixed

Texture Flickering Issues

The optimal settings for maximum modern system compatibility with the game (Method 1).
The optimal settings for maximum modern system compatibility with the game (Method 1).

First Method

Instructions

Second Method

Instructions

Audio/Video Sync

If you are having problems with the sound not syncing up with the picture, go launch SettingsApplication.exe, go to "Sound Settings" and choose your Sound Card.[2]

Note that using a monitor with a native refresh rate above 60 Hz may also lead to sync issues.[citation needed] To correct this, change your refresh rate to 60 Hz or use an FPS limiting program to set the max FPS to 60.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE
Processor (CPU) 700 MHz Pentium III, Celeron, or AMD Athlon
System memory (RAM) 64 MB (98 SE)
128 MB (ME/2000/XP)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 7200
Nvidia GeForce1 256
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0b 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>/15130/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15130) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References