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Revision as of 01:25, 12 April 2018

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Clive Barker's Undying
Clive Barker's Undying cover
Developers
EA Los Angeles
Publishers
Electronic Arts
OS X Aspyr Media
Engines
Unreal Engine 1
Release dates
Windows February 21, 2001
macOS (OS X) June 11, 2002
Clive Barker's Undying on Wikipedia
Clive Barker
Clive Barker's Undying 2001
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Comes pre-configured with nGlide.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Texture Patch fixes issues with some textures.

Texture Updater

Texture Updater updates original textures with detail textures to improve image quality.

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video file[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Help\.
  2. Delete or rename Intro.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\System\*.ini[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.
Advanced video settings.
Advanced video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Use Undying Widescreen Fix[citation needed]
  1. Download the Undying Widescreen Fix 1.01.
  2. Extract the contents to <path-to-game>\System\.
  3. Download nGlide (version 1.05 or higher) and open the setup file with 7-Zip.
  4. Extract nGlide_config.exe and the various .dll files to <path-to-game>\System\.
  5. Go to the in-game video settings and set the resolution.
    • For custom resolutions, press Tab and enter setres 2560x1440 (replace 2560x1440 with your desired resolution).

Notes

Alternative fix for Direct3D rendering can be found here. Also fixes issues with cropped cutscenes and weapon models.
Higher resolutions will crash the game; use Legacy D3D Resolution Hack to remove resolution limits.

Field of view (FOV)

The default FOV is 90° when outputting a 4:3 image.
Set custom FOV[citation needed]
  1. Press Tab while playing.
  2. Type in and enter fov x (replace x with your desired FOV).
    • To match the original FOV, use 100.3 (16:10), 106.2 (16:9), or 121.1 (21:9).

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Force borderless fullscreen (nGlide)[citation needed]
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Edit and Add.
  3. Set the Path to <path-to-game>\System\Undying.exe.
  4. Set Do not notify on task switch.
  5. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed.
  6. Click on DirectX tab, set DirectX 9.
  7. Click OK, then File and Save.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Enable Vsync[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\System\
  2. Open System.ini.
  3. Change UseVSync=False to UseVSync=True
  4. Save your changes.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

May require DirectSound3D restoration software to restore proper audio functionality on Windows Vista and later.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Only on Russian retail copy.

Issues unresolved

Mouse acceleration forced on

The game may cause Windows to enable the mouse 'Enhance pointer precision' feature which adds mouse acceleration.

Issues fixed

"3d hardware initialization failed" error

Use dgVoodoo[1]
  1. Download and extract dgVoodoo.
  2. Open the MS folder and copy the contents to <path-to-game>\System\.
  3. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe.
  4. Click on Add and select the installation folder.
  5. Disable Capture mouse in the General tab.
  6. Go to the DirectX tab and disable dgVoodoo Watermark.
  7. Apply changes and start the game.

Windows 8 low frame rate in fullscreen

Use dgVoodoo[1]

See "3d hardware initialization failed" error to fix.

Gamma doesn't work on Windows 8 and later

Use dgVoodoo[1]

See "3d hardware initialization failed" error to fix.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7
Glide
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 400 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 90 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Verified by User:Keith on 2017-09-07