Richard & Alice

General information

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GOG.com
Steam

Demo^[1]

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\acsetup.cfg
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/279260/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Richard & Alice\
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/279260/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

Configuration dialog.

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution		640x400 or multiples of it.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed or use Configuration dialog.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Locked to 40 fps.

Windowed[edit]

Modify variable^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open acsetup.cfg with your text editor of choice.
Change windowed=0 to windowed=1.

Configuration dialog[edit]

Use the --setup command line argument.

<path-to-game>\winsetup.exe does not work unlike most games with AGS engine due to a bug.

Input settings[edit]

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

Audio settings[edit]

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		Text-only dialogue.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed[edit]

Game will not launch[edit]

This issue occurs when trying to play the game in Windows 8. The reason this occurs is the game is looking for some DirectDraw files which are not built in.

Use the DDraw files used in Wine^[2]

Download this Archive.
Extract the files in this archive into the folder where the game was installed.
Launch the game.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
DirectDraw	5
64-bit executable

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)	1 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	100 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

↑ ^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>/279260/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (279260) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Owl Cave - Richard & Alice Reviews - last accessed on 2018-05-20
↑ For playing older AGS games on new computers - Adventure Game Studio Forums

[Proton_path_note-2] 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>/279260/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (279260) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Owl Cave - Richard & Alice Reviews - last accessed on 2018-05-20

[3] For playing older AGS games on new computers - Adventure Game Studio Forums

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Developers

	Owl Cave
Engines
	Adventure Game Studio
Release dates
Windows	February 21, 2013