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Perimeter

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Perimeter
Perimeter cover
Developers
KD VISION
Publishers
Retail (outside Russia) Codemasters
2004-2018 1C Company
2018-2022 1C Entertainment
2022-present Fulqrum Publishing
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows May 21, 2004
Reception
Metacritic 77
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Continuous turn-based
Perspectives Cinematic camera, Free-roaming camera
Controls Multiple select
Genres RTS
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi
Series Perimeter
Perimeter on HowLongToBeat
Perimeter on IGDB
Perimeter on MobyGames
Perimeter on Wikipedia
Perimeter
Perimeter 2004
Perimeter: Emperor's Testament 2005
Perimeter 2: New Earth 2008

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Perimeter is a singleplayer and multiplayer cinematic camera and free-roaming camera RTS game in the Perimeter series.

The game's source code was released on June 4, 2021.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 5.03.04.0011
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Also includes Perimeter: Emperor's Testament.
Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
Amazon.com (unavailable)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\perimeter.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289440/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Resource\Saves[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289440/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

External graphics settings.
External graphics settings.
External advanced graphics settings.
External advanced graphics settings.
In-game advanced graphics settings.
In-game advanced graphics settings.
In-game graphics settings.
In-game graphics settings.
External game settings.
External game settings.
In-game game settings.
In-game game settings.
External miscellaneous settings.
External miscellaneous settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
There is currently no known way to run the game when not using the default resolutions.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Camera can be zoomed in and out freely.
Windowed
Set "Fullscreen=" in "Perimeter.cfg" to "0"
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Edit "controls.cfg" in the "Resource" folder.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

External audio settings.
External audio settings.
In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects, music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Always on; cutscenes and mission briefings only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail and GOG.com only.
German
Retail and GOG.com only.
Italian
Retail and GOG.com only.
Russian
Spanish
Retail and GOG.com only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8, 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4.3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia nForce 1/2, GeForce 2/3/4/FX
ATI Radeon 7xxx, 8xxx, 9xxx
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0b compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/289440/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (289440) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References