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Revision as of 00:42, 21 March 2016

Anachronox
Anachronox cover
Developers
Ion Storm
Publishers
North America Eidos Interactive
Australia Infogrames
Engines
id Tech 2
Release dates
Windows June 27, 2001
Anachronox on Wikipedia

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Can be played without Steam running.[1]
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Unofficial patches

These patches are only needed for retail versions; the GOG.com and Steam versions are already patched.
Fixes several issues and improves some areas of the game. Digital versions of the game already include this patch.
Build 44 to Build 45
The first patch has to be installed beforehand, following the second patch.
Fixes multiple issues with the game.
Build 45 to Build 46
Fixes even more issues with the game.

Game data

Official setup utility.
Official setup utility.
Launcher and setup utility for unofficial patches.
Launcher and setup utility for unofficial patches.
General in-game settings.
General in-game settings.

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/242940/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/242940/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

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues unresolved

EAX sound on modern systems

EAX sound is unsupported on modern systems. As the in-game implementation was quite buggy and caused crashes even on systems with EAX support, this is removed in the GOG.com version.

Issues fixed

Couldn't load renderer (AMD)

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Pentium II 266MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.0 GB
Video card (GPU) 12 MB, OpenGL support

Notes

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

References

  1. Verified by User:Vetle on 2016-03-20