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Revision as of 14:48, 2 October 2021
Developers | |
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Elixir Studios | |
Publishers | |
Retail | Sierra Entertainment |
Digital | Rebellion Developments |
Release dates | |
Windows | September 28, 2004 |
macOS (OS X) | May 9, 2013[1] |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 75 |
IGDB | 83 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Building, RTS |
Themes | Comedy, Contemporary |
Series | Evil Genius |
Evil Genius | |
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Evil Genius | 2004 |
Evil Genius 2: World Domination | 2021 |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SecuROM 5 DRM. | |||
Developer website (unavailable) | ||||
GOG.com | Mac version is available once added to your library despite the store page showing Windows only and not Mac (except for a small Mac notice under the system requirements section). | |||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Steam | ||||
ZOOM Platform |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Skip Intro[2] |
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StartupState=1 CopyrightScreenDuration=0 |
Patches
PCGamingWiki Patch
- Contains all the official fixes and most tweaks, new fixes, along with the extra bonus content.
Official 1.01
- The official patch for the game released by Elixir Studios.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\DynamicResources\Config[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3720/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\DynamicResources\Layouts\[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3720/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | Change the Max Camera Height. See Custom camera height. | ||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Fixes Alt+Tab ↹ crashes. When out of focus the game will appear as paused. See Borderless fullscreen windowed. |
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Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | No FPS cap. Performance hits are to be expected with more entities. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Widescreen resolution
Widescreen resolution[citation needed] |
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Notes:
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Windowed
Through the resolution changer[citation needed] |
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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 |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | Up to 7.1 output.[3] | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 4 |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | See Enabling speech on the German version. | |||
Italian | ||||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
- This is caused by the Windows region format setting being set to English (UK).
Crash when pushing the research button
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Enabling speech on the German version
Instructions[citation needed] |
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[Sound] PlayFeedback=true PlayNewsflashes=true |
The Direct3D device has a non-zero reference
Deleteting configuration file[citation needed] |
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Generic Application Error
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Missing grass (Windows 8)
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Playtime not being tracked (Steam)
- By default, Steam only counts time while the game's launcher is active. To fix this, ask Steam to launch the actual game executable instead. Note time will nonetheless only be counted in Fullscreen mode.
Name[citation needed] |
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/c "C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Evil Genius\ReleaseExe\EvilGeniusExeStub-Release.exe" |
Other information
Enabling the developer console
Instructions[citation needed] |
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ToggleDebugCommands:Ctrl+D Notes
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Increased Camera Zoom
Instructions[citation needed] |
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[GameCamera] MaxHeight=65.0 |
Changing the default Debug.log location
- By default on Windows this file is created into the main drive.
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Debug output log file=YourPath |
Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98SE | ME, 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 800 MHz | Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.4 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 2 16 MB of VRAM | Nvidia GeForce 3 64 MB of VRAM |
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 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (3720) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.