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Beasts and Bumpkins

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Beasts and Bumpkins
Developers

	Worldweaver Ltd
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows	1997
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Strategy
Themes	Fantasy

Beasts and Bumpkins is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric strategy game.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Essential improvements

Installing on modern systems

Run the setup launcher on the CD in compatibility mode for Windows 95.^[1]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\savegam0.sav^{[Note 1]}

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See the WSGF thread.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

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 feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Polish				Fan - [1]
Czech				Fan - 1

Issues fixed

Gameplay stutters or hitches

Install DDrawCompat in game folder

CD audio tracks do not play or too loud

Method 1: Fix CD audio with ogg-winmm wrapper
Install ogg-winmm in game folder. Rip tracks from CD or mounted disc image. Convert tracks to ogg, rename and place in `music` folder (see ogg-winmm instructions). Lower CDDAVolume in `winmm.ini` to your preference.

Method 2: Fix CD audio with DxWnd

Install DxWnd and add a new profile.
Choose the path of the beasts.exe file.
Deselect "Run in Window" to play in fullscreen.
Insert the disc to the disc drive or mount the image file.
Select the "CDAudio" tab and choose the correct CDA drive.
Choose "Play from CD".

Alternatively, choose "RIP CD audio", run the game once and then switch to "Use audio files".

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	40 MB
Video card (GPU)	2 MB of VRAM DirectX DirectX 3 compatible

Notes

↑ 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

↑ Beasts & bumpkins (maptile.mfb error) - last accessed on 2021-12-21