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Chameleon

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Chameleon
Chameleon cover
Developers
Silver Wish Games
Publishers
Take-Two Interactive
1C Company
Engines
LS3D
Release dates
Windows May 19, 2005
Chameleon on Wikipedia
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Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
This game is only playable in English with a fan translation (see Localizations for details and other supported languages).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
 StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video file[5]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\video\
  2. Delete or rename logo.bik

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Profiles\<user-id>\controls.cfg[Note 2]
<path-to-game>\Profiles\<user-id>\usets.cfg[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Profiles\<user-id>\Savegame\[Note 2]

Video settings

In-game video/audio settings.
In-game video/audio settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
No official localization. Fan translation, Download Instructions
Czech
Polish
English speech.
Russian
Spanish
Fan translation, Download
The game has never been released in western countries.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Despite official system requirements, game always uses DirectX 8.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video 1.5p

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1 GHz
AMD Athlon 1 GHz		 Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz
AMD Athlon 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.1 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible 		Nvidia GeForce 6600
ATI
128 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible SoundBlaster Audigy

Notes

  1. ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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