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Garfield

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Garfield
Garfield cover
Developers
The Code Monkeys
Publishers
Hip Games
Russia Russobit-M
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
Windows November 19, 2004
Taxonomy
Series Garfield
Garfield on MobyGames
Garfield on Wikipedia
Garfield: Big, Fat, Hairy Deal 1987
Garfield: Winter's Tail 1989
Garfield: Caught in the Act 1996
Garfield's Mad About Cats 2000
Garfield 2004
Garfield: It's All About Phonics - Kindergarten 2004
Garfield's It's All About Thinking Skills 2005
Garfield: Saving Arlene 2005
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties 2006
Garfield: Lasagna World Tour 2007
The Garfield Show: Threat of the Space Lasagna 2011
Garfield Kart (series)
Garfield's Wild Ride 2014
Garfield Lasagna Party 2022

Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
StarForce 3.4.53.0 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
Polish version
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Garfield\

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save\[Note 2]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
The image is stretched
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Use Garfield+
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)


Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Essential Improvements

[1]

A fan made mod that lets you run on modern computers

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Black screen on FMVs (Windows 7)

Use compatibility mode
  1. Go to the game directory.
  2. Right-click on "Garfield.exe".
  3. Go to "Compatibility".
  4. Check "Disable desktop composition".

Attic Minigame Bugs

The Attic minigame crashes and the vacuum stops working.
The only known fix right now for crashing is to not use the vacuum, when the cupboard closes. As for the vacuum not working, just bump to a spider while holding one of the vacuum buttons.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 700 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Other 16x CD-ROM drive


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. 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