Lifeforce Tenka
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Developers | |
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Psygnosis | |
Release dates | |
Windows | January 22, 1998 |
Reception | |
IGDB | 70 |
Key points
- Released as Lifeforce Tenka in Europe and Codename: Tenka in North America.
- Poor compatibility with modern systems.
- Missing PlayStation 1 surround sound option and lighting colours
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail |
- This game is not available digitally.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Psygnosis\Tenka\ |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\save\tenka.sav[Note 1] |
- All saves are stored in
tenka.sav
. - Information on how to edit the file with an hexadecimal editor can be found here.
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Up to 720p. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Alt-tabbing will cause the game to flicker and freeze on the last frame it displayed before losing focus. | ||
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 | A frame rate above 30 FPS will cause the game to run too fast and render timed missions impossible to complete. See Game runs too fast. | ||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion | Toggleable by pressing F1. |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sound effects, Music, Speech | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio | ||
Red Book CD audio | See Background music doesn't play. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
Installer won't run on 64-bit operating systems
Use a 32-bit executable[1][2] |
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Game runs too fast
Cap the frame rate at 30 FPS[2] |
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Mouse controls are nearly unresponsive
Decrease mouse polling rate to 125 Hz[2] |
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Background music doesn't play
Patch the executable with _inmm.dll[2] |
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Cutscenes don't play
Set Windows compatibility mode on "Windows 95"[2] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 3 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 100 | Intel Pentium 166 |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 40 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | SVGA 1 MB of VRAM |
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%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Installing 32-bit programs with 16-bit setup launcher stubs - ReactOS Website - last accessed on November 18, 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Verified by User:Azatoth on November 29, 2018