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Black & White

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Black & White
Black & White cover
Developers
Lionhead Studios
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Mac OS Feral Interactive
Release dates
Windows March 25, 2001
Mac OS (Classic) December 2001
Black & White on Wikipedia
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.
Black & White
Black & White 2001
Black & White 2 2005
Running the game as an administrator does more harm than good.[citation needed]
Extremely limited in-game video options.

General information

Black & White Modding Community

Availability

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This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1

Fixes a number of bugs present on the original release.

Patch 1.2

Additional changes from patch 1.1 are included.
Enabled online play.
After installing the 1.2 patch the music folder will be automatically deleted. See Missing music for a fix.

Patch 1.3

Adds support for the P-5 Glove.
Players who wish to use this patch can find the required .dll here.
Installing this patch without owning the glove breaks the game completely, there's no new additions otherwise.

Misc

Black & White Online Launcher

Streamlined client, makes playing online far easier.
Fairly buggy, still in development.

Patch Uninstaller

Usefull for either quickly downgrading or reinstalling a certain patch quickly.

Windows XP Hotfix 824141

Installing Windows XP SP2 fixes this issue.

Mods

Villager Banter Add-On
Football Add-On
Patch 1.2 is required.

Additional Creatures

Leopard
Mandrill
Gorilla
Horse

Game data

Be sure to run the Setup.exe with admin rights on. Do not run by any means the main executable with admin rights on.

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Save game cloud syncing

No save game cloud syncing information; you can edit this page to add it.

Video settings

Settings launcher.

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Windowed

Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
Polish

Issues fixed

Missing music

Instructions

Low Framerates in Recent Operating Systems

Many people experience low, game-breaking frame rates in recent operating systems despite setting the video settings to "Maximum Detail". This can typically be avoided by using the "Custom" settings, and setting all settings to maximum.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Pentium II 350 MHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 Mb of VRAM
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) OS 8.6
Processor (CPU) G3 333 MHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM

References