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Populous: The Beginning

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Populous: The Beginning
Populous: The Beginning cover
Developers
Bullfrog Productions
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
Magic Carpet
Release dates
Windows September 15, 1998
Populous: The Beginning on Wikipedia
Populous
Populous 1989
Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods 1991
Populous: The Beginning 1998

Key points

Poor compatibility with modern systems.

General information

Populous Wiki - a small wiki for the Populous series
Populous: Reincarnated - a fan site dedicated to Populous: The Beginning
Populous: Reincarnated Wiki - a wiki for Populous: The Beginning
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

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The GOG.com version includes the Undiscovered Worlds expansion since 27th of September 2013[1].

Essential improvements

Patch 1.01

The latest official retail patch available is 1.01. The GOG.com version comes with this pre-installed.

Collective Populous Patch (1.03)

The unofficial Collective Populous Patch includes 1.01 fixes as well as a network hosting bug fix. It also removes the CD check and adds a restore tool along with an update tool.

This patch will update the game to the US version.

Displacements Patch

The unofficial Displacements Patch improves all landscape textures. This affects both the base game and its' expansion.

Game data

Configuration file location

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Save game data location

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Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Issues unresolved

Sluggish mouse in main menu

Issues fixed

Graphics card not detected for ATI/AMD cards

Instructions

Graphics Problem - Windows 7

This information is for users not using the GOG executable

Many users using Windows 7 may experience a problem whereby colours are not right. This can be solved by stopping the process explorer.exe (this is a windows process, so make sure you know how to restart it for when your finished playing) and rerunning POTB.exe.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB 250 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM

References