Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus

Oddworld
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee	1997
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus	1998
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee	2010
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath	2010
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD	2012
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty!	2015
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (2016)	2016
Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition	2021

Key points

As game only runs on 640x480 resolution, it may cause problems with modern systems. See Widescreen resolution or R.E.L.I.V.E. Source Port how to run the game with monitors native resolution.

General information

Oddworld Wiki

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc DRM^{[Note 1]}.
GOG.com		Bonus content also included including manual and wallpapers.
Humble Store
Steam
ZOOM Platform

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential Improvements

R.E.L.I.V.E. Source Port

Open source new engine created via reverse engineering, that seeks to replace the original tools too.

Provides Native Resolution and Windowed mode support and bugfixes.

Supports Windows 10, MacOS, and Linux.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\abe2.ini^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15710/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\*.sav^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/15710/pfx/^{[Note 3]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		640x480 only. See Widescreen resolution or the source port for displaying properly on Widescreen monitors.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		See R.E.L.I.V.E. Source Port.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See R.E.L.I.V.E. Source Port.
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)

Widescreen resolution

Game is always 640x480, which may cause problems with modern systems.

This method will only raise output resolution to match desktop's one, game will still render at 640x480.

Installing DDhack^[3]

Download the DirectDraw hack.
Extract it into the installation folder.
Launch the game and it should run at your current desktop resolution.

Notes

This fix only works from Windows Vista onwards.

This fix might not be necessary, as the game already runs in widescreen.

This fix does not resolve graphical issues (like screen flicker) on the steam release. Consider using dgvoodoo2 instead.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Does not recognize left/right trigger axes on Xinput controllers.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French				Retail and Steam only.
German				Retail and Steam only; download for GOG.com version
Italian				Retail and Steam only.
Spanish				Retail and Steam only.

Issues fixed

Running the game on 64-bit Windows

Only effects original retail version. Not needed for currently digitally distributed versions.

Manually install the game^{[citation needed]}

Manually copy ALL the *.DDV and *.LVL files from CD, along with the EXODDUS.EXE and SOUNDS.DAT, to a new folder, 152 files in total.
There are LVL files on the Play CD that are older than the same files on the Install CD, so all you need from the Play CD is the content in "movies".
Run the executable. Windows will prompt you for the CD twice, which you can skip, and after the legal info in-game, it will prompt for the Play CD, just press ESC, and the game will work as it should.

Notes

You don't need the CD to run the game, as the EXE has all the files it needs in its folder, eliminating the slower loading times from the CD.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	6

Executable	PPC	32-bit	64-bit	ARM	Notes
Windows					64-bit requires the R.E.L.I.V.E. source port.
Linux					Requires the R.E.L.I.V.E. source port.^[4]^[5]

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95 2000, XP only (Steam)
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz	Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	640 MB 700 MB (Steam)
Video card (GPU)	SVGA DirectX 6 compatible
Sound (audio device)	100% Soundblaster compatible

Notes

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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).
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 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>/15710/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15710) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
↑ Abe's Oddyssey and Exoddus resolution SUPER FIX! - Steam Users' Forums (retrieved)
↑ AUR (en) - relive-git - last accessed on 2021-03-25
↑ package relive - last accessed on 21 July 2022

[3] SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]

[gamedir-4] 2.0 ^2.1 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).

[Proton_path_note-5] 3.0 ^3.1 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>/15710/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (15710) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16

[2] Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

[6] Abe's Oddyssey and Exoddus resolution SUPER FIX! - Steam Users' Forums (retrieved)

[7] AUR (en) - relive-git - last accessed on 2021-03-25

[8] relive - last accessed on 21 July 2022

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Developers

	Oddworld Inhabitants
Windows	Digital Dialect
Publishers
	GT Interactive
Engines
	A.L.I.V.E.
Release dates
Windows	November 17, 1998
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Series	Oddworld