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MIND: Path to Thalamus

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MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition
MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition cover
Developers
Pantumaca Barcelona
@CarlosGameDev
Dani Navarro
Luka Nieto
Publishers
Talking About Media
Engines
Windows Unreal Engine 4[Note 1]
OS X Unreal Engine 4[Note 2]
Linux Unreal Engine 4[Note 3]
Release dates
Windows August 5, 2014
macOS (OS X) January 21, 2016[3]
Linux April 8, 2016[4]
Reception
Metacritic 75
OpenCritic 75
IGDB 69
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Puzzle
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MIND: Path to Thalamus is a singleplayer first-person puzzle game.

MIND: Path to Thalamus was first released on Steam on August 5, 2014. MIND: Path to Thalamus Enhanced Edition was released as a free upgrade on November 3, 2015.[5] Enhanced Edition got OS X release on January 21, 2016[3] and Linux release on April 8, 2016.[4]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Oculus Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
GOG.com (unavailable)
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Version differences

Original Version

Enable in Steam: Go to game properties, Betas tab, select old mind - old mind.
Enable in GOG.com: Game extras, Mind: Path To Thalamus (Original Version).
  • Unreal Engine 3.
  • Windows 32-bit only.
  • Direct3D 9.
  • Supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish.
  • Resolution selection, windowed mode.

Enhanced Edition

  • Unreal Engine 4.
  • Windows, OS X, Linux 64-bit only.
  • Direct3D 11 on Windows, OpenGL on OS X and Linux.
  • Additional languages: Basque, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian.
  • VR support.
  • Redesigned levels, additional puzzles and secret areas.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Mind_Pathtothalamus\Saved\SaveGames\ (Enhanced Edition)
<path-to-game>\UDKGame\Config\ (Original Version)[Note 4]
macOS (OS X)
Linux $HOME/.config/Epic/Mind_Pathtothalamus/Saved/SaveGames/
<path-to-game>/Mind_Pathtothalamus/Config/
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Mind_Pathtothalamus\Saved\SaveGames\ (Enhanced Edition)
<path-to-game>\SavedKismetVariables\ (Original Version)[Note 4]
macOS (OS X)
Linux $HOME/.config/Epic/Mind_Pathtothalamus/Saved/SaveGames/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Original Version only.

Video

Graphics settings
Graphics settings
Game settings
Game settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Vert-
Windowed
Windows version does not have windowed mode anymore. Linux version has.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Game runs only in borderless fullscreen windowed mode now.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
None, Low, Medium, High, Ultra. Screen Percentage can be higher than 100.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Windows version is capped at 62 FPS. Linux version is uncapped.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Input settings
Input settings

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
5.1 Surround[7]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Basque
Catalan
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

Headsets State Notes
SteamVR
Oculus VR (LibOVR)
Windows Mixed Reality
OSVR
Devices
Tracked motion controllers
Teleportation and smooth locomotion.[6]
See Input for details.
Traditional controller
See Input for details.
Keyboard/Mouse
Play area
Seated
Standing
Room-scale

Issues fixed

Game crashes during gameplay

See Bypass OpenSSL SHA bug on Intel 10th gen and later CPUs.[8]
Fix OpenSSL SHA bug by patching executable[8]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\Mind_Pathtothalamus\Binaries\Win64\Mind_Pathtothalamus-Win64-Shipping.exe in a hex editor (e.g. HxD).
  2. Go to(Ctrl+G) the address 00060243 (this and all further numbers are hexadecimal).
  3. Change the value from 48 to 4C.
  4. Go to(Ctrl+G) the address 0006024B
  5. Change the value from 48 to 49.
  6. Save the file (Ctrl+S).

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
OpenGL
OS X and Linux only.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS
DirectX 10 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.9.2
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Debian compatible
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.16.3.0[1][2]
  2. Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.10.2.0[2]
  3. Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.10.2.0[2]
  4. 4.0 4.1 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).

References