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Day of the Tentacle Remastered

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Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Day of the Tentacle Remastered cover
Developers
Double Fine Productions
Linux Josh Bush
Release dates
Windows March 21, 2016
macOS (OS X) March 21, 2016
Linux July 11, 2016
Day of the Tentacle Remastered on Wikipedia
Maniac Mansion
Maniac Mansion 1988
Day of the Tentacle 1993
Maniac Mansion Deluxe (unofficial) 2004
Maniac Mansion Mania (unofficial) 2005
Day of the Tentacle Remastered 2016

Key points

Includes a "classic" mode which faithfully recreates the original Day of the Tentacle
Includes the original Maniac Mansion, which can be played in-game (by accessing Weird Ed Edison's computer)

General information

Double Fine Action Forums
The International House of Mojo - In-depth article including developer interviews and game trivia
Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature on the series
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
itch.io
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savedata\settings.ini[Note 1]
%APPDATA%\Doublefine\DayOfTheTentacle\
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/doublefine/dott/
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savedata\[Note 1]
%APPDATA%\Doublefine\DayOfTheTentacle\
macOS (OS X) ~/Library/Application Support/com.doublefine.dottosx/
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/doublefine/dott/savedata/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.
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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Russian
Fan translation by «ENPY Studio/Old-Games.RU»

Issues fixed

Audio clipping/crackling/stuttering on Windows 10

Setting the game to Windows 8 compatibility mode may alleviate some of the audio issues.
Set Windows 8 Compatibility mode[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. To set the compatibility mode, right click Dott.exe, select Properties.
  3. Go to the compatibility tab, select "Windows 8" from the drop down list.
Use the --DisableFMODDSP parameter[1]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Dual Core 1.7 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
ATI Radeon HD 4870
Intel HD 3000
512 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 3.0 compatible
DirectX 9.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
ATI Radeon HD 4870
Intel HD 3000
512 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 3.0 compatible
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04
Processor (CPU) Dual Core 1.7 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
ATI Radeon HD 4870
Intel HD 4000
512 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 3.0 compatible
DirectX 9.0 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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