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Tyrian

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Tyrian
Tyrian cover
Developers
Eclipse Productions
Publishers
Epic MegaGames
Release dates
DOS 1995
Windows December 14, 2010[1]
macOS (OS X) October 18, 2012
Linux October 18, 2012
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Tyrian on Wikipedia

Key points

Tyrian 2000 is the re-release of Tyrian with additional content and bug fixes.
Officially available as freeware.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Fan Site with forums and downloads

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Windows and OS X. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Alternate versions and an Open Source port are also available.
The Ad Lib soundtrack is available for free here. Midi files for the General MIDI soundtrack can be found for free here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\TYRIAN.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\TYRIAN.CFG[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game>\TYRIAN.CFG

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\TYRIAN.SAV
Windows <path-to-game>\TYRIAN.SAV[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game>\TYRIAN.SAV

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

General settings in SETUP.EXE
General settings in SETUP.EXE
300px
GOG DOSBox graphics settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio Sliders.
Audio Sliders.

Template:Audio settings

This game supports General MIDI for music.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
Shared-screen. Arcade mode only.
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Gamepad is unplayable

Calibrating a gamepad in-game will cause control issues due to not reaching the corners during calibration.
Delete TYRIAN.CFG[citation needed]
  1. Delete TYRIAN.CFG.
  2. Run the game and set your sound and detail settings.
  3. Play without using in-game calibration (calibrate in the operating system if necessary).

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 17 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 17 MB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM

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