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Revision as of 03:41, 26 August 2018

The Ball
The Ball cover
Developers
Teotl Studios
Publishers
Tripwire Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows October 26, 2010
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The Ball on Wikipedia
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General information

Official game site
Official forums
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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 Comes bundled with exclusive Portal 2 themed DLC.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Ball\UDKGame\Config
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/35460/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Ball\UDKGame\Config
<path-to-game>\UDKGame\Config
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/35460/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

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High frame rate

Change frame rate smoothing[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open UDKEngine.ini.
  3. Search and change bSmoothFrameRate to FALSE or raise MaxSmoothedFrameRate value.
  4. Save file.

Notes

For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Swedish

Issues fixed

Settings and in-game progress not being saved

Another solution is to run the game exe file directly
Fixing the game shortcut[citation needed]
  1. Right click on the desktop shortcut for the game and select "Properties".
  2. Remove the -nohomedir console parameter from the shortcut target.
  3. Run the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio Fonix TTS

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 3.0 GHz Single core Dual core
System memory (RAM) 1 GB 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support		 Nvidia GeForce 8800

Notes

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

References