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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure

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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure cover
Developers
Big Finish Games
Publishers
Atlus
Engines
Unity 4[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows May 7, 2014
macOS (OS X) May 7, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 68
OpenCritic 70
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives First-person, Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure, Puzzle
Art styles FMV
Themes Comedy, Detective/mystery
Series Tex Murphy
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure on HowLongToBeat
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure on IGDB
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure guide on StrategyWiki
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure on MobyGames
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure on Wikipedia
Tex Murphy
Tex Murphy: Mean Streets 1989
Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum 1991
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon 1994
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive 1996
Tex Murphy: Overseer 1998
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure 2014
The Poisoned Pawn: A Tex Murphy Adventure TBA

General information

The Unofficial Tex Murphy Web Site - A fan site for the series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.com (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\BigFinishGames\TeslaEffect\SettingsDB.sav
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/\[I\]\<TeslaEffect\>\[/I\]/BigFinishGames/TeslaEffect/SettingsDB.sav
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/261510/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\BigFinishGames\TeslaEffect\<user-id>\*.sav
macOS (OS X) $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/\[I\]\<TeslaEffect\>\[/I\]/BigFinishGames/TeslaEffect/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/261510/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
FMV Cutscenes are only recorded in 2K
Field of view (FOV)
40° to 90° in 10° increments
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Enable windowed mode and use the -popupwindow parameter (or see the glossary page).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Input

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

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

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.
In-game language settings.
In-game language settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master Volume, Speech, Effects, Music and Video (Cutscene).
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Fan translation, download.
Brazilian Portuguese
Translation.
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
OpenGL 2.0 OS X only.
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
[citation needed]

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video 2, Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 17 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 280
AMD Radeon R5 430
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 17 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GT 320M


Notes

  1. Unity engine build: 4.3.3f1[1]
  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>/261510/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (261510) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Vetle on 2017-06-02