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Revision as of 09:36, 25 October 2021

Fairy Tale About Father Frost, Ivan and Nastya
Fairy Tale About Father Frost, Ivan and Nastya cover
Developers
Bohemia Interactive
Publishers
1C Company
Engines
CPAL2
Release dates
Windows December 20, 2000
Fairy Tale About Father Frost, Ivan and Nastya on MobyGames

Key points

An older game that has various issues running on newer operating systems such as Windows 7/8.

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Publisher website for game
Centauri Production page for game

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Does not require Steam to be running once installed
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
Russian Steam version seems to contain remnants of some sort of DRM in files mrazik_dir.res, mrazik_vdir.res, and mrazik_cd1_an.res. They do not seem to be active.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Centauri\Mrazik
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289320/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Game options.
Game options.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only runs at 640*480 resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Press Alt+ Enter to switch between full screen and windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Always borderless when windowed, but only displays at 640*480
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

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
Has separate settings for music, sound, and voice
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Sounds will be muted while continuing to play in the background

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Czech
Hungarian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian

Issues unresolved

Game crashes when trying to load a save that was created during a dialog

The game may crash with the error "GAME: Invalid talk node ID."
Don't save during a dialog.

Issues fixed

Game crashes when attempting to load or save

The error message is "CTRL: FindFirstFileEx failed. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."
The game assumes maximum Windows path length and only allocates a buffer that is just big enough.
A typical Steam installation of the game has a path length that just exceeds this limit.
Choose a shorter path to install the game to[citation needed]

See Moving Steam Games To Another Drive. For example the path C:\MyGames is shorter than C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam.

Game crashes when playing cutscene video

The error message is "CPSE: Stream open file failed."
Windows 7 and later do not have the Indeo video codecs required to play certain cutscene videos installed. The files, though, do exist on disk.
Manually register ir50_32.dll[1]
  1. Start Command Prompt as an Administrator.
  2. Run the command regsvr32 "%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\ir50_32.dll". If you have 32-bit Windows, replace SysWOW64 with System32.
  3. Click OK on the message box that comes up.

Notes

There appears to be certain security issues with the codec. Unregister the codec when you are done with the game, with the command regsvr32 /u "%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\ir50_32.dll". Don't mind the runtime error that may come up.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 210 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM


Notes

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