Evil Genius

Evil Genius

Developers
	Elixir Studios
Publishers
	Sierra Entertainment
	Rebellion Developments
Release dates
Windows	September 28, 2004
OS X	May 9, 2013

General information

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GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Developer website
GamersGate
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Steam

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip Intro Go to the configuration files location. Open concept.cfg with a text editor. Find the following lines and set them to these values. StartupState=1 CopyrightScreenDuration=0

Patches

PCGamingWiki Patch

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

Official 1.01

The official patch for the game released by Elixir Studios.

• European Version
• American Version

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\DynamicResources\Config
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\DynamicResources\Layouts\
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game general video settings.

In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor			See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		Change the Max Camera Height. See Custom camera height.
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Fixes Alt+Tab ↹ crashes. When out of focus the game will appear as paused. See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Can be forced through the NVIDIA Control Panel/AMD Control Center.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS		No FPS cap. Performance hits are to be expected with more entities.

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen Resolution[citation needed] Download the Universal Resolution Changer and extract it to <path-to-game>\ReleaseExe Open resolution.ini and set the desired values. Disable any overlays (RivaTuner or other) and launch game from <path-to-game>\ReleaseExe\EvilGeniusExeStub-Release.exe.

Windowed

Through the resolution changer[citation needed] Download the Universal Resolution Changer and extract it to <path-to-game>\ReleaseExe Open resolution.ini and look for the line Windowed, then change it to Windowed=1

Input settings

In-game general control settings.

In-game key map settings.

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Up to 7.1 output.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		EAX 4

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
French
German				See Enabling speech on the German version.
Italian				A text translation is available here.
Spanish

Issues fixed

Corrupt main menu screen and missing audio

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

Crash when pushing the research button

Instructions[citation needed] Go to <path-to-game>\DynamicResources\Layouts\ Open the desired save game with a text editor. Push Ctrl+H and in the Find field type ResearchSubject=0 and in the Replace with field type ResearchSubject=12008. Click on the Replace button. Launch the game and load the desired save game, then open the research screen and click on the door icon, located at the top. Cancel the door research by clicking on the red icon.

Enabling speech on the German version

Instructions[citation needed] Go to the configuration files location. Open concept.cfg. Find the following lines and set them to these values or add them if they are missing. [Sound] PlayFeedback=true PlayNewsflashes=true

The Direct3D device has a non-zero reference

Deleteting configuration file[citation needed] Go to the configuration files location. Delete Current.opt. Follow the Widescreen resolution instructions in order to set up a custom resolution.

Generic Application Error

Instructions[citation needed] Download and run the Windows DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer.

Missing grass (Windows 8)

Instructions[citation needed] Go to the <path-to-game>\ReleaseExe\ folder and find EvilGeniusExeStub-Release.exe See Windows Compatibility Mode. Tick the Run this program in compatibility mode for checkbox and select the Windows Vista mode.

Playtime not being tracked (Steam)

Create a Steam shortcut to Evil Genius[citation needed]

Launch the game twice[citation needed]

Other information

Enabling the developer console

Instructions[citation needed] Go to the configuration files location. Open Default.ksb and Current.ksb with a text editor. Add the following line near the end of the file, before the three hypens. ToggleDebugCommands:Ctrl+D Notes While playing push Ctrl+D once, then press ~ or \ to open the console. A handy list of commands can be found here and here.

Custom camera height

Instructions[citation needed] Go to the configuration files location. Open concept.cfg. Find the following lines and set them to your desired values. MinHeight=7.0 MaxHeight=40.0 MinAngle=2.55 MaxAngle=3.1415 Notes MinHeight=2.0 and MaxHeight=65 appear to be the most optimal values.

Changing the default Debug.log location

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

Instructions[citation needed] Go to the configuration files location. Open concept.cfg. Find the following line, then set it to the desired path. Debug output log file=YourPath

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98SE	ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Pentium III 800 MHz	Pentium IV 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.4 GB
Video card (GPU)	NVIDIA GeForce 2 16 MB of VRAM	NVIDIA GeForce 3 64 MB of VRAM