Legend of Grimrock

Windows

Availability

The best version is available from the developer's website, which provides both a Steam key and a DRM free version (the same executable as from GOG.com).

Video Settings

Field Of View (FOV)

Although the narrow FOV may be considered a design choice, it is not a value that is user-editable.

Vsync

1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Almost Human\Legend of Grimrock\
2. Edit grimrock.cfg
3. Change verticalSync = 1 to verticalSync = 2.

Issues And Fixes

Period Freezing, Overheating

Enabling #Vsync may fix some issues, such as periodic freezing. This is because the game does not have a framerate limiter, therefore it will tax the graphics card very heavily. #Vsync forces a framerate cap.

Black Screen, Torches Visible

A known issue regarding certain graphics card drivers. Resetting the graphics driver to default values from the control panel can fix this issue. This issue, at least on AMD cards, seems to be caused by forcing anti-aliasing via the control panel. Disabling it should fix the issue. Morphological Filtering (MLAA) seems functional as an alternative, but it can make small text and objects blurry.

Blurry Graphics

Blurry textures and menu items are almost always caused by the Mipmap Detail Level in the AMD VISION Engine Control Center.

Following these steps to fix the issue:

• set Mipmap Detail Level to 'Quality'
• disable Catalyst AI
• everything else to App Controlled/off.

Mouse Cursor Missing

Disabling mouse pointer trails fixes this issue.

D3DError - D3DXCompileShader failed

Error message: D3DError - D3DXCompileShader failed: ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT

A solution involves modifying a new DirectX installer.

Download the latest DXSsetup.exe from Microsoft.

Extract the DXSetup.exe to a folder.

Enter these subfolders:

32 bit folder - Windows\SysWOW64
64 bit folder - Windows\System32

Delete these files:

D3DCompiler_43.dll
D3DX9_43.dll
d3dx11_43.dll

After doing this, rerun the DXSetup.exe from the original downloaded archive above.

Integrated Graphics

This is possible using a utility called Swiftshader, which offloads shader processing onto the CPU. However, this comes at a heavy performance price.

Cheats

Skill Points Editor

This utility is created by user 0x90 and is available to download on Cheat Happens, however a paid "unlimited" account is required to access it, ranging in cost from $39.99 for a 1 year subscription, to $59.99 for a 3 year subscription. Reportedly only working with the Steam version of the game, and not the GOG.com version.

The steps are as follows:

1. Start the trainer
2. Start the game
3. Open the character stats and move to skills
4. Hit escape
5. Alt+tab out of game
6. Hit scan on trainer
7. Listen for female voice
8. Hit refresh button on trainer
9. Select game from task bar, (instead of alt+tab back to game)
10. Open 2nd character and move to skills
11. Repeat steps 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9
12. Once all four characters refreshed, put the amount of skill points in their box and hit the small save button next to the character
13. Hit the save button on the bottom of the trainer
14. Go back into the game and use the skill points
15. Save and exit game
16. Close trainer
17. Start game and load edited save with edited characters.

Linux

Technical Issues

Issues installing

Some users have reported that the "LegendOfGrimrock-Linux-2012-12-18.sh" script hangs during installation; it may be necessary to provide root permissions explicitly using sudo, or to use root access directly, in order to run the script successfully.

Game binary won't run

The installation script adds a 'Grimrock.bin' binary to /usr/local/bin by default, which is automatically added to the PATH. Some users have reported that running this binary fails; it may be necessary to run the (apparently) alternative binary directly from the actual installation location — which by default is /usr/local/games/Grimrock.

WINE/PlayOn

Some users have suggested that it is possible to run Grimrock on Mac and Linux via WINE; however with the availability of a native version this should no longer be necessary. The most popular method on Mac is to use the Porting Team wrapper. On Linux it may be possible to play the game by installing Windows DLLs via Wine tricks (required DLLs include DirectX dlls and Visual C dlls).

This thread on the official forum details some ways to get it running under WINE: http://www.grimrock.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=489

Running On Integrated Graphics

Using Crossover, the game throws a D3D error.

This can be fixed by using Swiftshader.

Navigate to the file: ~/.cxoffice/Grimrock/drive_c/windows/system32/d3d9.dll

Replace with the d3d9.dll from Wwiftshader.

General Information

Games are saved by default on Windows in:

  %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Almost Human

Under Linux, they are placed in:

  ~/.local/share/Almost Human/

Official Links

• Official Website
• Official Forum