Gratuitous Space Battles

Gratuitous Space Battles

Developers   Positech Games OS X Red Marble Games Linux Edward Rudd

Release dates Windows November 4, 2009 OS X August 4, 2010 Linux December 13, 2011

Gratuitous Battles

Gratuitous Space Battles	2009
Gratuitous Tank Battles	2012
Gratuitous Space Battles 2	2014

General information

Official Website

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
Developer website		The Windows and OS X versions are sold separately
Steam
Desura

None of the versions provide everything and there is a price disparity between the same versions.

Online gameplay requires an activation code.

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Name	Notes
The Outcasts
The Tribe
The Order
The Swarm
The Nomads
Galactic Conquest
Parasites DLC

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\GratuitousSpaceBattles
OS X
Linux	~/.positech/GSB

Save game data location

	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\GratuitousSpaceBattles
OS X
Linux	~/.positech/GSB

This game does not support the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager

Video settings

General settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
High frame rate

Input settings

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

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play
Online play		2	Can only play against others via challenge maps.
Asynchronous multiplayer

Issues fixed

DLC on Linux

The DLC for this game can only be bought via Steam or as a part of the collector's edition from the website. Because of this, the DLC is not officially sold on Linux, but it can be used with the Linux version after being bought on Steam.

Convert Steam DLC content Buy DLC via Steam Install DLC via Steam, either under Windows or via Wine Copy the relevant folders Folder in the installation folder (e.g. "GSB/nomads GSB/campaign") "data/install/DLC_RELATED" into "GSB/data/install/DLC_RELATED" "data/packages/DLC_RELATED" into "GSB/data/packages/DLC_RELATED" Convert all .dds files to .png Notes: This can be done with the use of ImageMagick. To automate this process further the following command may be used (NO WARRANTY): for x in `find . -name "*.dds"`; do convert $x `dirname $x`/`basename $x .dds`.png; done Some users have noted that some backgrounds appear white, when using the DLC, but this can be further fixed by converting the .bmp files

Issues unresolved

Whilst in battle, the game would, approximately every 3 minutes, drop from the regular (on an average machine, I do not know the specs of it) FPS of ~60, to < 10 FPS. It would go back to the regular FPS about 5 minutes later, and then repeat this cycle. Cause unknown, fix unknown.

System requirements

Requires at least 1024x768

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP
Processor (CPU)	1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	62 MB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM

OS X
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.5
Processor (CPU)	1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	62 MB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Kernel 2.6
Processor (CPU)	1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	62 MB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM