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Geneforge

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Geneforge
Geneforge cover
Developers
Spiderweb Software
Release dates
Mac OS (Classic) December 12, 2001
Windows March 19, 2002
macOS (OS X) January 29, 2013
Taxonomy
Series Geneforge
Geneforge on MobyGames
Geneforge on Wikipedia
Geneforge
Geneforge 2001
Geneforge 2 2003
Geneforge 3 2005
Geneforge 4: Rebellion 2006
Geneforge 5: Overthrow 2008
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen 2021

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 for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
As part of the Geneforge Saga bundle.
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Spiderweb Software\Geneforge Saved Games\GFPrefs.dat
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/200960/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Spiderweb Software\Geneforge Saved Games\Save*\
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/200960/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Launcher
Launcher
General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Native resolution is 800x600. The launcher provides the option to change the monitor resolution to 800x600, or to use a windowboxed display at the current 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)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
Map scrolling and environment effects are locked to much lower framerates.
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
[1]
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1.6 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL compliant graphics card


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/200960/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (200960) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Geneforge Saga on GOG.com - last accessed on 2019-12-10
    "Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up."