Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord

Giana Sisters
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams	2012
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord	2013
Giana Sisters: Dream Runners	2015
Giana Sisters 2D	2015

Key points

From technical standpoint game is almost identical to Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, which means most of the fixes and features are identical.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GamersGate
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming		Also sold together with the original game.
Humble Store		Also sold together with the original game.
Steam

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Use replacement BFG Logo 1080p.wmv

Apply the Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams intro skip.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Giana Sisters - Rise of the Owlverlord

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Giana Sisters - Rise of the Owlverlord

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

Launcher video settings.

Graphics option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Use Widescreen Fixer with this plugin.
Ultra-widescreen		Use Widescreen Fixer with this plugin.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	Can also toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter`.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Force in the graphics card control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS	Use windowed mode or override the refresh rate in Nvidia Control Panel. Frame rate is capped at 124 FPS.

Input settings[edit]

Launcher control settings.

In-game control settings.

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

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback

Audio settings[edit]

Launcher audio settings.

In-game audio settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effects, ambient, music and voice
Surround sound
Subtitles		Speech is gibberish.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Spanish

VR support[edit]

3D modes	Native	Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams and Rise of the Owlverlord (DX9).
TriDef 3D
iZ3D

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.8 GHz / AMD Athlon II X2 @ 2.8 GHz	Intel Core i5 @ 2.66 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 6800 ATI X1800 XT DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support	Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 ATI HD 4800 DirectX 10 compatible

References

Developers

	Black Forest Games
Engines
	Vision
Release dates
Windows	September 26, 2013