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Expendable

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Expendable
Expendable cover
Developers
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
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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

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc v1 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename movie files[4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\fmv.
  2. Delete or rename intro.bik, intro.fmv, ragelogo.bik, and ragelogo.fmv.

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
  1. Download corresponding patch for retail or GOG versions.
  2. Extract ex_embm_tuxality-* content to the <path-to-game>.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
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
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
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Launcher video settings.
Launcher video settings.
In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
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

Controls remap.
Controls remap.
Controllers settings.
Controllers settings.

Audio

Launcher audio settings.
Launcher audio settings.
In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
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
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
Local play
2
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Game crashes when going ingame on modern CPUs

Disable CPU detection
  1. Use the command line parameter -nocputest when launching go.exe main executable.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
[6]

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 5.0h
Cutscenes Bink Video, Smacker Video Technology 0.8f
3.2j

System requirements

Windows
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
Other 4x CD-ROM drive
macOS (OS X)
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

  1. 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. 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. 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

  1. Mac Game Update: 34 New Additions ● GOG.com - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  2. Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  3. Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  4. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2019-09-11
  5. Infogrames Brasil (archived) - last accessed on May 2023
  6. 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."