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The Temple of Elemental Evil

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The Temple of Elemental Evil
The Temple of Elemental Evil cover
Developers
Troika Games
Publishers
Original Atari
Current Hasbro
Engines
Steam
Release dates
Windows September 16, 2003
macOS (OS X) April 18, 2014[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Isometric
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Dungeons & Dragons
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The Temple of Elemental Evil is a singleplayer isometric RPG game in the Dungeons & Dragons series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
GOG version setup guide
Mods guide

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM DRM disc check.
Removed in The Master Collection.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
A free demo is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Patches

All three official patches are available from Patches-Scrolls and Sorcerers.net.

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\movies.
  2. Delete or rename AtariLogo.bik, introcinematic.bik, TroikaLogo.bik and WotCLogo.bik.

Circle of Eight Modpack

Standard Edition download page.
Troubleshooting the mod/general advice
This is for the GOG.com and Anthology versions of the game. See this link for info on installing with the retail version.
This mod requires Java 8 to be installed for the mod's launcher to work.

Temple+

Main forum thread and download link
FAQ | Support
Rewrites the engine, allowing for performance & pathfinding optimizations as well as UI improvements for modern systems.
Compatible with GOG.com and CD-ROM version of the game with Patch 2 installed, as well as the Circle of Eight modpack.
Although it contains many bugfixes, it still does not fix some things co8 takes care of, so installation of both is recommended.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ToEE.cfg[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\modules\ToEE\Save\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Base game: Characters and fog are not rendered at 1920x1080 or higher.
Field of view (FOV)
Fixed overhead
Windowed
Use the -window parameter.[2] Window is 800x600. See also Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Possible with DxWnd. See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
On/off only.
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.

Windowed

DxWnd
  1. Launch DxWnd and add a shortcut to ToEE.exe.
    • Main tab: Run in Window checked. Choose "Desktop" if going for borderless windowed, or Desktop Center otherwise.
    • Video: Emulate Win Maximize.
  2. Open ToEE.cfg and edit video_width and video_height to match the desired resolution. Note that height is set before width.

Notes

If the game's resolution is set too high, character models and fog of war will not be rendered.
Window may be initially pinned; tab in and out of the game to fix this.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound Effects, Speech, Music, 3D.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Only retail version. Fan translation 1, Fan translation 2
Polish
Local retail version only.
Russian
Official localization by Akella. Local retail version only.
Russian
Fan translation by «Greyhawk.ovl.ru»

Game Issues

Crashes on rest

This happens only when rest on certain areas.
Try resting in another area[citation needed]

Crash on startup

Replace temple.dll[3]

Notes

Applies to one type of crash after "initializing sector data".

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 700 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.1 GB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 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).

References