Scribblenauts Unlimited

Scribblenauts
Scribblenauts Unlimited	2012
Scribblenauts Unmasked	2013

General information

Official Website

Scribblenauts Wiki

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam		Can run without Steam, but object editor and custom objects will not be available.^{[citation needed]}
Amazon.com (unavailable)
GamersGate (unavailable)
Origin (unavailable)

All versions require Steam DRM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVEDATA\Profile.dat^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/218680/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVEDATA^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/218680/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Resolutions thinner than 16:9 like 16:10, and 4:3 are letterboxed.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Up to 8x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS	Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

In-game key map settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
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		Sound effects and music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Issues fixed

Adding content from Steam Workshop

Subscribing to Steam Workshop content while the game is not running will download the content but it will not be available in game.

Enabling Steam Overlay^{[citation needed]}
Go to Steam → Settings → In-Game Tick "Enable Steam Community In-Game" button

In-game^{[citation needed]}

Go into the game, open Object Editor (glue and scissors icon) and open the Downloads tab.
Click on the blue button
Enjoy adding stuff

Notes

If you don't want Steam overlay, go to Steam Workshop page on your internet browser while the game is running (by using Alt+Tab ↹ or ⊞ Win).

Lines appearing on the screen

Nvidia solution^[1]

You will need to turn Anisotropic Filtering off in either Nvidia Control Panel or AMD VISION Engine Control Center/Catalyst.

Right-click on your desktop and open the Nvidia Control Panel
Under "3D Settings", select "Manage 3D Settings"
Set Anisotropic Filtering to "Off" or "Application Controlled"

Broken text

Reset graphic drivers^[2]

Go to ATI Control Center --> Prefereneces
Press "Reset Factory Defaults"

If this doesn't work, then try updating the graphics drivers.

If above fails, there's nothing you can do, possibly because of unsupported graphics card.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c
Shader Model support	3.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	Bink Video

SweetFX-Next

A collection of effects like bloom and HDR. Available in "Vibrant" and "Dull" presets.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP
Processor (CPU)	AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon X1800 Nvidia GeForce 7800 Intel 4100 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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>/218680/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (218680) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Steam Discussions - Workaround for lines or grids appearing on screen - last accessed on May 2023
↑ Steam Discussions - Broken text - last accessed on May 2023

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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).

[Proton_path_note-2] 2.0 ^2.1 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>/218680/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (218680) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[3] Steam Discussions - Workaround for lines or grids appearing on screen - last accessed on May 2023

[4] Steam Discussions - Broken text - last accessed on May 2023

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[Note 2]

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Developers

	5th Cell
Publishers
	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Engines
	Objectnaut
Release dates
Windows	November 19, 2012
Taxonomy
Series	Scribblenauts