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Planescape: Torment

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This page is for the original release. For the remastered edition, see Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition.

Planescape: Torment
Planescape: Torment cover
Developers
Black Isle Studios
Publishers
1999-2017 Interplay Entertainment
2017-present Beamdog
Retail (Japan) Sega
Engines
Infinity
Release dates
Windows December 12, 1999
macOS (OS X) April 18, 2014[1]
Linux October 14, 2014[2]
Reception
Metacritic 91
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Continuous turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Genres RPG
Themes Fantasy
Series Planescape: Torment
Planescape: Torment on HowLongToBeat
Planescape: Torment on IGDB
Planescape: Torment on MobyGames
Planescape: Torment on Wikipedia
Planescape: Torment
Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Planescape: Torment 1999
Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition 2017

Planescape: Torment is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RPG game in the Planescape: Torment series.

General information

Torment Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Early copies released on 4 CDs, later copies released on 2 CDs or 1 DVD.
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
Dungeons & Dragons Anthology: The Master Collection release
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with WineD3D. Bundled with Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Power Action Leprechaun Annah St. Patrick's Day skin for Annah.
Windows
Easter Egg Morte Easter skin for Morte. Includes new voice lines.
Windows
More information and associated wallpapers on official website archive.

Essential improvements

Patches

The official 1.1 patch is the latest version of the game. GOG and 2 CD copies will already have this installed.

Peixoto's patch

Allows nearest neighbor or xBRz scaling and fixes poor performance

Mods

There are several recommended mods containing bug fixes, widescreen support, restoration of cut content and tweaks to some of the more annoying aspects of the game (such as the hit-points per level being constant instead of completely random). It is recommended that you follow this guide, as the mods require that you install them in a certain order. GOG.com version users can skip to step 3a.

Skip intro videos

Delete, move or rename[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data
  2. Delete, move or rename the following file: genmovB.bif.

GemRB

A Source Port of Infinity Engine games designed to be compatible with multiple Platforms & add new features such as increased moddability over the original engine.
While the game is completable on the Engine, it may not yet be 100% polished as of 23rd of March 2024 as seen here

https://gemrb.org

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use widescreen mod
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Use widescreen mod
4K Ultra HD
Use widescreen mod. Game elements will be too small or zoomed out at very high resolutions, even with UI Mod.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
2D game.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
30 FPS default cap (40 for GOG.com). See 60 FPS.
120+ FPS
Higher frame rates will make the game run too fast.

Windowed

Enable windowed[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open torment.ini.
  3. Find Full Screen=1 and change it to Full Screen=0.

Notes

Cutscenes will not play if desktop colour depth is not 16-bit.
Emulate windowed with DxWnd[citation needed]
  1. Add Torment.exe to list of DxWnd applications, and open its properties.
  2. Under the Main tab, set window size to W=640 H=480 (integer multiples allowed), and check "Terminate on window close".
  3. (Optional) Under the Mouse tab, check "Keep cursor within window".
  4. Under the DirectX tab, Enable "Compensate Flip Emulation".

60 FPS

Set frame rate[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open torment.ini.
  3. Find Maximum Frame Rate and change the value to 60.

Notes

Affects game speed.[4]

Input

Keyboard settings.
Keyboard settings.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Ambient, Sound FX, Voice, Music and Movie.
Surround sound
5.1[5]
Subtitles
Most dialogues are text-based. Non-dialogue speech may be offscreen, or may be audio only (e.g. Morte saying we're being watched and to look casual.)
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Fan translation by ITP; download.
Polish
Details
Russian
1) Fan translation by ArcaneCost.
2) Unofficial translation by Fargus Multimedia attached as bonus to GOG.com version.
Spanish
Fan translation by Clan Dlan, download.

Issues fixed

Slowdowns and stuttering

Install unofficial patch[citation needed]
  1. Install unofficial patch (DDraw Fix).
  2. If the patch causes cursor trails to appear, open setup-pst-drawfix.tp2 with a text editor and delete the following lines:
    PATCH_IF( offset != (0 - 1) ) BEGIN WRITE_BYTE ( offset + 26 ) 0x02 END <br/>ELSE BEGIN PATCH_WARN "Cursor Trail Fix Failed: patch location not found" END
  3. Reinstall the patch.

"Not enough free disk space" error followed by shut down on large capacity partitions

Install Windows compatibility fix
  1. To clarify, this is a fix for a post install issue on drives over 2TB in size, where the game will crash on launch.
  2. Download custom compatibility fix from this link
  3. Either use command line to install the compatibility file or run the BATCH file as an administrator to do it automatically.

Spell effects cause artifacting and performance issues

Disable hardware acceleration[citation needed]
  1. Go into the control panel in Windows.
  2. Switch off hardware acceleration for the duration of the playing time.
  3. If the option is greyed out, download the DirectX SDK, and manually switch it off (under DirectDraw).[citation needed] Remember to switch it back on after you are done playing.

Characters are walking backwards

Toggle software mirroring[citation needed]
  1. Go into the video options.
  2. Toggle "Software Mirroring".

Assertion Failed on Startup

There are startup checks that try to ensure the game can run. Usually they involve setting up the initial game.

Enable windowed mode[6]
  • Applies to "F:\Torment\Source\chitin\ChVideo.cpp at line number 4322", or no valid video modes supported.
  • See Windowed
Modify configuration file[7]
  • Applies to "F:\Torment\Source\chitin\ChDimm.cpp at line number 787"
  • Edit <path-to-game>\torment.ini and change the paths in the first section to match the installation directory.
Set torment.exe to run in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2.[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 6.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium MMX 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 650 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.0 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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).

References

  1. Mac versions, new language packs for D&D games and others - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Linux Update: We've reached the 100-title mark - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  3. gog.com - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  4. Too fast, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  5. [1] - last accessed on 2022-09-05
  6. gog.com - last accessed on May 2023
  7. gog.com - last accessed on May 2023