Wheel of Fortune (1998)
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| Developers | |
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| Artech Digital Entertainment | |
| Publishers | |
| Hasbro Interactive | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | November 15, 1998 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Series | Wheel of Fortune |
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Key points
- Video rendered as white (no, not Vanna White) when played on modern systems. (See fixes for solution)
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Retail | |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>[Note 1] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | Game runs at 800x600. | ||
| 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) | |||
| High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | All visuals in the game run at 15 frames per second. | ||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | Wheel uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet. | |
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | Required to navigate the menus. | |
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | The audio can only be turned on or off, which affects all audio in the game. | |
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | Switching out of the game causes graphical issues. |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English |
Network
Multiplayer types
| Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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| Local play | 3 | Hot seat Wheel of Fortune has each player taking turns to solve a word puzzle by guessing letters. Except for Solo games, unused spots are filled with CPU players. |
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| LAN play | ||||
| Online play | ||||
Issues unresolved
(Linux only) Videos cause program to become unresponsive
- All FMVs will bring up an error regarding the Indeo video codec used to play them. The program will proceed until it's time to play the first puzzle, but as soon as Vanna appears, the program will become unresponsive, requiring the program to be terminated. As said before, videos can be disabled in the options to make the game playable.
Fixes
Videos show as white
- Restores all FMVs to their original format, fixes the white square issue.
| Use a DirectDraw wrapper[1] |
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Other information
API
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 95, 98 | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 90 MHz | Intel Pentium 133 MHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | 32 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 40 MB | 60 MB |
| Video card (GPU) | 1 MB VGA adapter DirectX 5.0 compatible | 2 MB VGA adapter |
| Sound (audio device) | DirectX compatible | |
| Other | 4x speed CD-ROM drive | 8x speed CD-ROM drie |
Notes
- ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).