Legend of Grimrock

Legend of Grimrock

Developer(s)	Almost Human OS X, Linux Edward Rudd
First release date	Windows 11 April 2012 OS X, Linux 19 December 2012

Legend of Grimrock

Legend of Grimrock	2012
Legend of Grimrock 2

Key points

Runs on low-end hardware if settings are all set to low

General information

Official website

Official forum

Steam Users' Forums

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source(s)	Store unlock	Notes
Developer's website
GOG.com
Steam
GamersGate
Ubuntu Software Centre

Game data

	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Almost Human\Legend of Grimrock\
Mac
Linux	~/.local/share/Almost Human/Legend of Grimrock/

This game supports XDG on Linux.

Video settings

General settings.

Graphics option	Native	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Set Display Mode to Borderless in Settings.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Merged into texture filtering options.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Force in the video card control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)

Input settings

Input Settings	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Controller support

This game includes the option for on-screen controls.

Enabling the console • Link Add the following lines to the file grimrock.cfg in the game data folder: console=true consoleKey = 192 This sets the key ~ to opening the console. A handy debugging toolkit can be downloaded, placed into the directory containing 'grimrock.exe' and can be accessed in the console by typing dofile('debug.lua'). A list of commands can be found within the file itself.

Issues fixed

Game freezes occasionally

Periodical freezing, overheating • Link Enabling Vsync may fix some issues, such as periodic freezing. This is because the game does not have a framerate limiter, therefore it will tax the graphics card very heavily. Vsync forces a framerate cap.

Screen appears black / mostly black

Black screen with torches visible • Link A known issue regarding certain graphics card drivers. Resetting the graphics driver to default values from the control panel can fix this issue. This issue, at least on AMD cards, seems to be caused by forcing anti-aliasing via the control panel. Disabling it should fix the issue. Morphological Filtering (MLAA) seems functional as an alternative, but it can make small text and objects blurry.

Graphics are blurry

Blurry graphics • Link Blurry textures and menu items are almost always caused by the Mipmap Detail Level in the AMD VISION Engine Control Center. Following these steps to fix the issue: set Mipmap Detail Level to 'Quality' disable Catalyst AI #everything else to App Controlled/off.

Mouse cursor isn't visible

Mouse cursor missing • Link Disabling mouse pointer trails fixes this issue.

D3DError

D3DError - D3DXCompileShader failed • Link Error message: D3DError - D3DXCompileShader failed: ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT A solution involves modifying a new DirectX installer. Download the latest DXSsetup.exe from Microsoft. Extract the DXSetup.exe to a folder. Enter these subfolders: 32 bit folder - Windows\SysWOW64 64 bit folder - Windows\System32 Delete these files: D3DCompiler_43.dll D3DX9_43.dll d3dx11_43.dll After doing this, rerun the DXSetup.exe from the original downloaded archive above.

Running the game on integrated graphics

Running on integrated graphics • Link This is possible using a utility called Swiftshader, which offloads shader processing onto the CPU. However, this comes at a heavy performance price.

System requirements

Requires a resolution of at least 1280x720 or 1024x768.

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3/Vista/7	XP SP3/Vista/7
Processor (CPU)	Dual Core 2 GHz Intel or 2.8 GHz AMD	Quad Core 2.66 GHz Intel or 3.2 GHz AMD
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 Shader Model 3.0 support 512 MB of VRAM	ATI Radeon HD 2900 or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 512 MB of VRAM
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB	1 GB

Mac
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.6	10.6
Processor (CPU)	Core 2 Duo	Core i5
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	OpenGL 2.1 256 MB of VRAM	ATI Radeon HD 2900 or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 512 MB of VRAM
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB	1 GB

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	glibc 2.5	glibc 2.5
Processor (CPU)	2 GHz	2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	OpenGL 2.1, Shader Model 3 support 512 MB of VRAM	OpenGL 2.1, Shader Model 3 support 512 MB of VRAM
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB	1 GB