Martian Gothic: Unification

Martian Gothic: Unification

Developers
	Creative Reality
Publishers
North America	TalonSoft
Europe	Take-Two Interactive
Russia	Buka Entertainment
Release dates
Windows	April 30, 2000
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Cinematic camera
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Adventure, Survival horror
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Sci-fi, Space, Horror

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Essential improvements

Peixoto's patch

• Forced resolution and 32 bit color depth
• Fixes the game not responding to gamepad input and adds better compatibility with Xinput gamepads
• Fixes a graphics glitch when you change characters
• Fixes gamma calibration not working

On the Peixoto patch utility's Martian Gothic page, you will also find links for other patches that are necessary to get the

game running.

Causes extreme visual artifacts on certain systems.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Martian Gothic

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use Peixoto's patch to force the game to run at your monitor's native resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Use Peixoto's patch.
4K Ultra HD		Use Peixoto's patch.
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Forced on.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		30 fps lock.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

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

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		Use Peixoto's patch to add support for XInput controllers.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, sound.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Running game executable in compatibility mode could cause audio issues.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Matlock glitch vent duct

At Mai Lin's bedroom, Matlock (the woman), crawls inside a vent duct to go to another place, but when says "keep going, keep going, the hatch is down but she can pass through it anyway. The Trimorph follows her right through the closed hatch, catches up, and kills her. If this happen, the savegame will corrupt ALL the saves. The workaround below it dosen't work, even if the game is set in english from the beginning.

Matlock gets up inside a vent duct

At Mai Lin's bedroom, Matlock (the woman), crawls inside a vent duct to go to another place, but when says "keep going, keep going", she gets up inside the vent and gets stuck in the "room". She can walk standing in the duct without following the 2D background and doesn't do the transitions to other rooms.

Doing some research, although the game is fully patched, this bug appears when the game is in Spanish and Italian, but doesn't when the game is in English or French. Other languages are untested because the version tested only have these four languages.

Workaround: Put the game in English or French and revert back after the vent

1. Save the game in the near save point. Exit the game.

2. Change language to English (or French):

Create [MartianENG.reg] and add to registry
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Martian Gothic] "Language"="eng" Notes Change "eng" to "fre" for French language if you prefer that. Either combination lack the bug.

3. Go through the vent and advance until the next save point. Save and exit the game.

4. Revert back the language (Spanish or Italian):

Create [MartianSPA.reg] and add to registry
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Martian Gothic] "Language"="spa" Notes Change "spa" to "ita" for Italian language.

5. Load your last game and continue.

Issues fixed

Game not responding to gamepad input

Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed]

For Dinput gamepad use dinputto8 (Direct Input Fix)

Graphics glitch when changing characters

Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed]

Gamma calibration not working

Use Peixoto's patch[citation needed]

ADPCM codec not installed

Use [Create fix.reg] paste:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaResources\acm\msacm.msadpcm] "Driver"="msadp32.acm" Add to registry

Game freezes randomly

See Force CPU affinity to run the game on one core
Recommended and tested ImageCFG to use it alongside with Peixoto's patch.

Ending video doesn't play and game crash

Change outro.bik from <path-to-game>\data with this one
Because seems the video can be corrupted but not for all versions, it can be tested using the last RAD Video Tools/Bink and Smacker (Actually Bink 2021.3/Smacker 4.2e) and trying to playing it. If its corrupted it should play with big greens and blues squares. Also MPC-HC doesn't play the video (only the audio) but VLC plays it normally.

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		Attempt with DGVoodoo2 2.6 and vorpx, retail game was crashing.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	QSound	4.13 (QMDX.dll)
Cutscenes	Bink Video	1.0h

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 2 266 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	450 MB
Video card (GPU)	2 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.0 compatible
Sound (audio device)	Sound Blaster or compatible