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Evil Genius

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Evil Genius
Evil Genius cover
Developers
Elixir Studios
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Rebellion Developments
Release dates
Windows September 28, 2004
macOS (OS X) May 9, 2013
Evil Genius on Wikipedia

Key points

Fairly moddable, further documentation can be found here along with a handy modding guide.

General information

Evil Planet Community Site
GOG.com Community Discussions
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)
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Developer website
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GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
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GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows and OS X.
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Green Man Gaming
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Steam
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EU release with stability fixes from the US version.
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The Steam release is a blend between the 1.0 European Patch and the 1.1 US patch, the latter missing some of the more obvious changes.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Patches

PCGamingWiki Patch

Contains all the official fixes and most tweaks, new fixes, along with the extra bonus content.

Official 1.01

The only official patch, released by Elixir before its demise in 2005. It fixes a number of issues, however certain issues still remain.

Bonus CD

A free expansion to the game, it provides a new unit, a new trap, and various other additions.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3720/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3720/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Windowed

Instructions

Input settings

In-game general control settings.
In-game general control settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

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Audio settings

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

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Some dialogues are disabled by default. See this.
Italian
A text translation is available here.
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Dissapearing grass

This issue only seems to persist when rotating the camera inside the lair while viewing whatever is outside.

Issues fixed

Corrupt main menu screen and missing audio

This is caused by the Windows region format setting being set to English (UK).

Enabling speech on the German version

Instructions

Error "The Direct3D device has a non-zero reference"

Caused by a resolution change while in the main menu rendering the game unplayable.
Instructions

Generic Application Error

Instructions

Missing grass (Windows)

Instructions

Playtime not being tracked (Steam)

Instructions

Other information

Enabling the developer console

Instructions

Custom camera height

Instructions

Changing the default Debug.log location

By default on Windows this file is created into the main drive.
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98SE
Processor (CPU) Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.4 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce 2
16 MB of VRAM

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>/3720/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (3720) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References