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Tower of Guns

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Tower of Guns
Tower of Guns cover
Developers
Terrible Posture Games
macOS (OS X) Minority
Linux Minority
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows March 4, 2014
macOS (OS X) October 28, 2014
Linux October 28, 2014
Tower of Guns guide on StrategyWiki
Tower of Guns on Wikipedia

General information

Official Website
Official Forum
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

1.3 update is Windows-only.[1]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\UDKGame\Config\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) ~/Library/Application Support/com.terriblePostureGames.TowerOfGuns/
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/TerriblePostureGames/TowerOfGuns/
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Binaries\win32\Gamestate.bin[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) ~/Library/Application Support/com.terriblePostureGames.TowerOfGuns/
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/TerriblePostureGames/TowerOfGuns/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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

Template:Video settings

Input settings

In-game key/button map settings.
In-game key/button map settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
Use Helix Mod: Tower of Guns.

Issues unresolved

Windows 8 + integrated Intel GFX incompatiblity

There are some reports indicating that systems running on Windows 8 & integrated Intel GFX card cannot run the game.[citation needed] No fix is known as of yet.

Issues fixed

Crash during first startup with message "BUILT WITH UDK has stopped working"

This is caused by patching the game without starting up the original version.[2]
Reinstall game[citation needed]
  1. Uninstall game.
  2. Reinstall game by running setup_tower_of_guns_2.0.0.6.exe.
  3. Open game and exit.
  4. Patch game by running patch_tower_of_guns_2.0.1.7.exe or newer.
  5. Open game.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9, 11 Direct3D 11 can be forced with the -dx11 command line argument.
OpenGL 2.1 OS X and Linux only.
Shader Model support 3, 5
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio Fonix TTS
Interface wxWidgets

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 275
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
CPU/GPU intensive game
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 275
512 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.1 compatible
CPU/GPU intensive game
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Any distribution since 2010
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 275
512 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.1 compatible
CPU/GPU intensive game

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