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Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
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Developers
Spellbound
Publishers
Infogrames
Nordic Games
Engines
Trinigy Vision Engine
Release dates
Windows July 23, 2001
macOS (OS X) March 4, 2015[1]
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Desperados
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive 2001
Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge 2006
Helldorado 2007
Desperados III 2020

Key points

Has been fixed to run on Windows 7.
Has problems with Windows 8.[citation needed]

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Doesn't include patches to run on Windows 7.
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Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
GOG.com
DRM-free
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Green Man Gaming
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Multilanguage version.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Mac App Store
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OS X only.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Steam
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Multilanguage version.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty

Essential improvements

Patches

The v1.01 Patch updates the game to the latest version. The GOG.com version already includes this patch.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260730/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260730/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Flickering graphics

The game doesn't support newer graphic cards, which leads to constant flickering.

Only known solution is to enable on-board graphics.
Running the game with Windows XP SP3 compatibility could help[2]

Issues fixed

Strange mouse movement

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7.1 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References