Expendable
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Developers | |
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Rage Software | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Infogrames |
GOG.com | Blue Moon Red Owl |
Steam | Funbox Media |
Retail re-release | Sold Out Software |
Release dates | |
Windows | May 15, 1999 |
macOS (OS X) | November 15, 2013[1] |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | TPS |
Themes | Sci-fi |
Warnings
- The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
General information
Availability
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Delete or rename movie files[4] |
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Expendable EMBM Patch
- This is a modded version of a Matrox patch which enables Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping (EMBM) on the water surface for non-Matrox videocards.
Installation |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\config.txt[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/804000/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\misc\savegame.dta[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/804000/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | On/off toggle. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | Left mouse button can be used to make selections. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | ||
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PlayStation button prompts | ||
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes |
Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Master and Music sliders. Toggles for Sound Effects and 3D Sound Effects. | |
Surround sound | May require DirectSound 3D restoration software. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 1.0, A3D, Dolby Surround, RSX 3d Audio. | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Dutch | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Swedish | ||||
Portuguese | Fan translation by rubinho146, Download | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Retail.[5] | |||
Russian | Retail release only by Media Service 2000 |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 2 | |||
LAN play | ||||
Online play |
Issues fixed
Game crashes when going ingame on modern CPUs
Disable CPU detection |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 6 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) | [6] |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Miles Sound System | 5.0h |
Cutscenes | Bink Video, Smacker Video Technology | 0.8f 3.2j |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | 3dfx Voodoo ATI 3D Rage DirectX 6 compatible |
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Other | 4x CD-ROM drive |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.7.0 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 2 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 900 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 256 MB of VRAM |
- This game does not support macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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). - ↑ 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/804000/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (804000) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Mac Game Update: 34 New Additions ● GOG.com - last accessed on 9 June 2023
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-11
- ↑ Infogrames Brasil (archived) - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Expendable on GOG.com - last accessed on 2020-01-04
- "Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up."