Tonic Trouble

Tonic Trouble

Developers
	Ubisoft Montreal
	Ubi Pictures
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Engines
	Ubisoft OpenSpace
Release dates
Windows	December 6, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Platform
Art styles	Stylized
Series	Tonic Trouble

Tonic Trouble
Tonic Trouble Special Edition	1998
Tonic Trouble	1999

Tonic Trouble is a singleplayer third-person platform game in the Tonic Trouble series.

It has poor compatibility with modern operating systems. See here for fixes. Character animations are not capped at 30 FPS, meanwhile the Special Edition's character animations are capped.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Game also requires running it via a shortcut created in the desktop after installation to run it properly.

This game is not available digitally.

A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Version differences

Special Edition refers to a set of many earlier builds of this game which were released around a year before it was finally sold in retail stores. They contain many differences from this version and were only bundled on some OEM discs. Some textures in retail version are in worse quality than in any Special Edition version (64x64 vs 128x128).

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches are available here. The ttsndfix.zip patch fixes sounds not playing on A3D-compatible sound cards. All of the other patches listed here are not meant to be used with the retail version, but rather Tonic Trouble Special Edition.

Playing on modern operating systems

Use a compatibility patch

Install the game using SETUP.exe included in the game disc. Download the this compatibility patch and replace the files in <path-to-game> to allow the game to run on newer operating systems. Launch the configuration tool and configure the game. Launch the game using the installed desktop shortcut with the game disc inserted. Notes If there are distorted graphics, set output API to DX12 in the attached dgVoodoo2.

Play without the shortcut and disc

Install the compatibility patch before proceeding. See Playing on modern operating systems.

Apply the NO DISC patch
Download the NO DISC patch and extract the files to <path-to-game>. Launch the game via LaunchTonicTrouble.bat.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\GAMEDATA\OPTIONS %WINDIR%\UBISOFT\UBI.INI

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\GAMEDATA\SaveGame

Video

Video Options.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See this page to setup widescreen.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Due to DirectX 6's resolution limit, 1440p and above require a DirectX wrapper, like dgVoodoo2.
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)		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)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS		Unlike Tonic Trouble Special Edition, the retail version's character animations are not capped at 30 FPS.
120+ FPS		Frame rate is capped at 63 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

General Control Options.

Advanced Control Options.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		All 10 keyboard keys listed in the controls menu can be remapped.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Use Rayman 2 Input Fix on modern systems. Note that this was originally meant for Rayman 2: The Great Escape, but is also compatible with Tonic Trouble.
Full controller support		If a gamepad is not detected on startup, joystick input is disabled and must be re-enabled in the Controls menu. Some commands are also not bound to the gamepad.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

F1 will show game totals, F9 will toggle the HUD, and F4 will show the console. Typing and entering "version" in the console will show the current game version. Also, to save manually, just type SAVEGAME in the console.

Xidi

Adds full DirectInput controller support for modern XInput-based controllers.

Restores haptic feedback.

Installing Xidi

Works with Xidi library in DInput form, but requires dropping Xidi's dinput.dll into <path-to-game>. Ensure the system is running Windows 10 or 11. Xidi is built to target Windows 10 or 11 and does not support older versions of Windows. Ensure the Visual C++ Runtime for Visual Studio 2022 is installed. Xidi is linked against this runtime and will not work without it. If running a 64-bit operating system, install both the x86 and the x64 versions of this runtime, otherwise install just the x86 version. Download the latest release of Xidi from here. Install one of the forms of Xidi into <path-to-game>. Optionally supply configuration settings to Xidi: config. Run the game.

Audio

Sound Options.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound, Music, and Voice.
Surround sound		Using DirectSound3D and A3D 2.0. Both are disabled by default, but can be re-enabled manually. See Restore 3D sound for restoring DirectSound3D and A3D 2.0.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		The game uses Aureal A3D 2.0 (not EAX). See Restore 3D sound.
Royalty free audio

Restore 3D sound

Restore DirectSound 3D and A3D 2.0 effects

Make sure to install the ttsndfix.zip patch before proceeding. See here for the patch. Install Creative Alchemy (for non-Creative cards, see here). Add and enable the game in Creative Alchemy. Make sure to copy and paste dsound.dll generated by Creative Alchemy to <path-to-game>\DLL\ as well, as this will be required later. Copy this executable to <path-to-game>\DLL\ (if the French version is installed, skip this step as this is already included with that version) and WAVa1BVR.dll if it's missing. Install A3D Live (After installing, go to %WINDIR% and delete a3dsplhs.exe to prevent the A3D splash screen from popping up). Open SetupSound3D.exe and say yes when prompted to enable 3D sound. Configure desired settings and select 'Save and Quit'. If the game crashes during startup using DSOAL, set Disable A3D, and it will use DirectSound3D instead. Notes Some sounds are distorted when running (here is the patch disabling Doppler effect responsible for it), a lot of voice dialogue cannot be heard for whatever reason and may cause some other issues such as crashes after some time of playing using A3D.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish				Castilian.
Russian				Fan translation.

Retail version's languages are individually separated by regional releases.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Modifications

• Tonic Trouble AI Upscaled Texture Pack - upscale of every single texture using Cupscale with the Fatality MK2 model and even a few textures were remade from scratch

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98
Processor (CPU)	166 MHz Intel Pentium processor or compatible MMXTM and non-MMXTMCyrix PR 233 MHz, AMD K6-2 266 MHz	233 MMXTMAGPCyrix XXX, AMD K6-2 XXX
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	250 MB
Video card (GPU)	All cards compatible with DX6 tested chipset: VOODOO 1, VOODOO 2 and VOODOO 3 (3DFX), ATI rage pro, Power VR2, Matrox G200 and G100, S3 savage 3D, Intel 740, NVIDIA TNT, Riva 128, Permedia 2 2 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible	8 MB of VRAM