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Zuma's Revenge!

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Zuma's Revenge!
Zuma's Revenge! cover
Developers
PopCap Games
macOS (OS X) Robosoft Technologies
Engines
PopCap Games Framework
Release dates
Windows September 15, 2009
macOS (OS X) September 15, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 78
IGDB 75
Taxonomy
Series Zuma
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Zuma's Revenge! on Wikipedia
Zuma
Zuma 2003
Zuma's Revenge! 2009

General information

Official website (archived)
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Free demo is also available
Windows
Games for Windows Marketplace (unavailable)
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[1]
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PopCap\ZumasRevenge
macOS (OS X)
Steam HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SteamPopCap\ZumasRevenge
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3620/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %PROGRAMDATA%\PopCap Games\ZumasRevenge\users[Note 2]
%PROGRAMDATA%\WildTangent\ZumasRevenge\users[Note 2]
%PROGRAMDATA%\AtomShockwave\ZumasRevenge\users[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Steam %PROGRAMDATA%\Steam\ZumasRevenge\users
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3620/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Hi-Res (1920x1200) mode available in options menu
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Change WaitForVSync value in the setting registry key
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Game is capped at 100 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode
Makes ball designs visually distinct.[2]

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Game use only the mouse
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Effects
Surround sound
Subtitles
All dialogues are text based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Game doesn't start on low-end PC

By default, the game uses 3D acceleration when you start the game for the first time. This makes very low-end computers unable to start the game.
Disable 3D acceleration[citation needed]
  1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SteamPopCap\ZumasRevenge
  2. Add the following DWORDs respectively with value 0 and 1
Is3D
Pre3D

Can't use high-resolution mode

Force game into HD resolution mode[3]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\compat.cfg.
  2. Search for the following two functions (line 53):
function(int) GetAppDefaultRes
{
  var bool isHiResHardware = call IsNVidiaOrATI();
  log("isHiResHardware = " + isHiResHardware);

  if (isHiResHardware && (compat_AppSysMemTotalMB >= 768) && (compat_AppOrigScreenHeight >= 1000) && (compat_AppVidMemory >= 92))
  {   
    return 1200;
  }
  else
  {
    return 600;
  }

}

function(bool) IsHiResSupported
{
  if (compat_AppVidMemory < 92)
    return false;
  return true;
}

3. Replace those with:

function(int) GetAppDefaultRes
{
  var bool isHiResHardware = call IsNVidiaOrATI();
  log("isHiResHardware = " + isHiResHardware);
    
  return 1200;
  
}

function(bool) IsHiResSupported
{
  return true;
}

Registry entry "HiRes" under "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PopCap\ZumasRevenge" might have to be set to "1"

Incorrect aspect ratio in high-resolution mode

In high-resolution mode, the game is always rendered at a resolution of 1920x1200 (16:10 aspect ratio). If the display supports the 1920x1200 resolution, then the game will set it automatically. Otherwise, it will not change the display resolution and the rendered game will be stretched.

If the display's native resolution does not have an aspect ratio of 16:10:

  1. Set the scaling mode to Preserve aspect ratio or Center, either on the display if GPU scaling is disabled, or on the GPU software if GPU scaling is enabled.
  2. If the display does not support the 1920x1200 resolution, create a custom one with an aspect ratio of 16:10 to use with the game. For instance, if the display's native resolution is 1920x1080 or 2560x1080, create a custom resolution of 1728x1080. If the display does not support such resolution, GPU scaling can be used. See the glossary page for details.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
DirectDraw 7
OpenGL
OS X only.
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio BASS

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 700 MHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.4.11
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/3620/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (3620) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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

  1. Welcome to Games for Windows Marketplace - Games for Windows - last accessed on 19 August 2022
  2. PopCap Games | Zuma's Revenge! – PC README
  3. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2021-11-04
    Tested on the Origin copy. After applying this fix, I was able to use the high-resolution mode.