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Psychonauts

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Psychonauts
Psychonauts cover
Developers
Double Fine Productions
Release dates
Windows April 26, 2005
macOS (OS X) September 29, 2011
Linux May 31, 2012
Psychonauts on Wikipedia

General information

Official website
Double Fine Action Forums - Psychonauts
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums
Unofficial wiki

Availability

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Game data

Configuration files location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3830/pfx/[Note 1]
AudioSettings.ini stores audio settings.
DisplaySettings.ini stores video settings.
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3830/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Menu option exists, but can also be changed in the DisplaySettings.ini file.
Instructions

Input settings

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

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Controller support

An Xbox 360 Controller is recommended. On all OS X and Linux versions of the game, as well as up-to-date Windows versions, the Xbox 360 Controller works out of the box.
(Windows only) Mouse camera control is disabled if a gamepad is plugged in.

Keyboard tooltips

Instructional tooltips remain as if using a keyboard and mouse when using the controller.
Instructions

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Issues unresolved

Smart Camera option does not work

The smart (automatic) camera stays on, even if you disable it in the game options or through the game's configuration files.[1]

Linux version differences

Mouse movement in this game feels entirely different from Windows (no zigzags, smoother.)

Issues fixed

Corrupt Game Profile

If, when you open Psychonauts, you are presented with the following error message:

Error (null), line -1
Crash: 0xc0000005
If you have VS.NET installed, you can try to attach the debugger
Otherwise, click OK 

then you may have a corrupted/damaged game profile.

To fix the error message and allow the game to load:

  1. Remove or Cut-Paste away the profile in question (most probably the one used most recently) under "Psychonauts\Profiles\Profile #"
  2. Start the game and create a new profile.
  3. Play!

To possibly recover a saved game:

  1. In step 2 above, ensure that you have created a profile that has exactly the same name as the one from which you want to recover saves. I do not know if this is necessary, but it follows my method.
  2. Copy/Paste all savegames from the lost profile to this new profile. HOPE that the game can read some of the data. If you still don't see savegames, or the test profile shows as damaged, systematically start with SavedGame0 and work through isolating each one to see if you can get data from any one of them while in the game. (IE: use only SavedGame0 from the old profile in the new profile, then ONLY SavedGame1, then ONLY SavedGame2, etc., then combinations, to recover as much data as possible).
  3. Play. I got my autosave back and my first save (I had several saves after it, but it seems they are gone). I hope you have at least that much success!
  4. Reconfigure yourself (or copy the .ini, but this is not tested).

Changing Swing Direction

When swinging from a bar the 'F' key is used to change swing direction (Y on the controller).

Thermometer Bar in Wrong Location

When using widescreen resolutions, occasionally the 'thermometer' bar for pyrokinesis will be displayed at the outer-edge of the screen rather than near the targeted object/creature. There are no known fixes to this bug.

Graphics Error Preventing Startup

Error: "The game was unable to find a 32bpp display mode supported by your system in which to run. Your video card and monitor must minimally support 640x480x32bpp."

Solution: Create a file called "DisplaySettings.ini" in the installation folder. Insert the following into said file:

[DisplaySettings]
ScreenWidth=1080
ScreenHeight=1920
FullScreen=true
VSync=true
FSAA=true
FSFX=true
AdvancedShading=true
Shadows=true
GammaCorrection=1.000000

ScreenWidth and ScreenHeight are your desired resolution.

Crashes on Cut-scene

Activate compatibility mode for Windows 95. On Steam, this can be done by right clicking the game in your library, going to properties then "browse local files" and checking the properties of Psychoanuts.exe. In Windows 8.1, Windows 7 compatibility mode stopped the game black screening for me every time I tried to start the game up.

Unofficial-Patches

v1.05 (by Voodooman on October 2, 2011) Update for non-Steam version. Adds XInput support.[2]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz Pentium III or AMD Athlon
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) GeForce 3
Radeon 8500
64 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI X1600
NVIDIA 8600GT
Intel HD3000
128 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 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>/3830/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (3830) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References