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Populous

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Populous
Populous cover
Developers
Bullfrog Productions
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
DOS June 5, 1989
Mac OS (Classic) 1993
Windows September 1, 2011[1]
macOS (OS X) October 18, 2012
Populous on Wikipedia
Populous
Populous 1989
Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods 1991
Populous: The Beginning 1998

Key points

The manual is required to pass the in-game DRM. A digital version is available on the disk (Retail only)

General information

Populous Wiki - a small wiki for the Populous series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
 Prompts for answers from the manual.[2]
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
 The in-game DRM has been modified to accept any input.[2]
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\Game\Game\DATA[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game>\Game\Game\*.GAM[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin

Video settings

300px
Graphics settings (GOG.com version)

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
2
Online play
2

Issues fixed

Jaggy mouse input

The Origin version uses DOSBox. A bug in this version causes the mouse to feel jaggy or less smooth.
Edit dosbox.conf[citation needed]
  1. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Populous\Game\Game\DOSBox
  2. Open dosbox.conf in a text editor
  3. Change autolock=false to autolock=true
  4. Save the file, this should fix the issue

Notes

If autolock was already set to true when you first edited the file, you may want to try changing it to autolock=false instead.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.3 6.2
Processor (CPU) IBM PC compatible
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA video card
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

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