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Revision as of 06:27, 28 September 2021

Gratuitous Space Battles
Gratuitous Space Battles cover
Developers
Positech Games
macOS (OS X) Red Marble Games
Linux Edward Rudd
Release dates
Windows November 4, 2009
macOS (OS X) August 4, 2010
Linux December 13, 2011
Reception
Metacritic 72
IGDB 65
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General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
DRM-free
 The Windows and OS X versions are sold separately
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
None of the versions provide everything and there is a price disparity between the same versions.
Online gameplay requires an activation code.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Outcasts
Windows
The Tribe
Windows
macOS (OS X)
The Order
Windows
macOS (OS X)
The Swarm
Windows
macOS (OS X)
The Nomads
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Galactic Conquest
Windows
macOS (OS X)
The Parasites
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\GratuitousSpaceBattles\
macOS (OS X)
Linux ~/.positech/GSB

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\GratuitousSpaceBattles\
macOS (OS X)
Linux ~/.positech/GSB
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
Multi-monitor
 
Ultra-widescreen
 
4K Ultra HD
 
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Menu screens are uncapped, but once in the game it is locked to 56.

Input

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
No speech.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
2 Can only play against others via challenge maps.
Asynchronous multiplayer

Issues fixed

DLC on Linux

The DLC for this game can only be bought via Steam or as a part of the collector's edition from the website. Because of this, the DLC is not officially sold on Linux, but it can be used with the Linux version after being bought on Steam.[1]

Convert Steam DLC content[citation needed]
  1. Buy DLC via Steam
  2. Install DLC via Steam, either under Windows or via Wine
  3. Copy the relevant folders
    1. Folder in the installation folder (e.g. "GSB/nomads GSB/campaign")
    2. "data/install/DLC_RELATED" into "GSB/data/install/DLC_RELATED"
    3. "data/packages/DLC_RELATED" into "GSB/data/packages/DLC_RELATED"
  4. Convert all .dds files to .png

Notes

This can be done with the use of ImageMagick. To automate this process further the following command may be used (NO WARRANTY):
for x in `find . -name "*.dds"`; do convert $x `dirname $x`/`basename $x .dds`.png; done
Some users have noted that some backgrounds appear white, when using the DLC, but this can be further fixed by converting the .bmp files[citation needed]

"Failed to initialise 3D Engine" error

Delete GratuitousSpaceBattles folder[2]
  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\
  2. Delete the GratuitousSpaceBattles folder.
  3. relaunch the game.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 62 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
Requires at least 1024x768
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.5
Processor (CPU) 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 62 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
Requires at least 1024x768
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Kernel 2.6
Processor (CPU) 1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 62 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
Requires at least 1024x768


References