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{{ii}} Released as '''Mahjong Wisdom''' on the [[Games for Windows - LIVE|Games for Windows Marketplace]].
 
  
 
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Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom
Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom cover
Developers
Creat Studios
Publishers
TikGames
Big Fish Games
Release dates
Windows March 7, 2007
Taxonomy
Genres Tile matching
Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom on Wikipedia

Warnings

For Games for Windows - LIVE on Windows 8 or later, install the latest Games for Windows - LIVE software.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Publisher website
DRM details are not known
Windows
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Windows
Games for Windows Marketplace (unavailable)
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Released as Mahjong Wisdom.[1]
SecuROM PA and Games for Windows - LIVE DRM.[Note 1]
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %PROGRAMDATA%\TikGames\Mahjong Wisdom\saves[Note 2]

Video

Settings.
Settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
800x600 is the maximum resolution in the windowed mode.[2]
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
[3]
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Locked to 40FPS.[3]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Gameplay exclusively uses the mouse.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
[4]
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, Sound Effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
[5]
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9 [6]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio OpenAL [7]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 600 MHz or faster Processor
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. Games for Windows - LIVE DRM features: SSA activation, requires a Microsoft account - local profiles are not supported.
  2. 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

  1. Mahjong Wisdom - Xbox.com - last accessed on 2024-05-11
  2. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2021-08-20
    Once a screenshot was taken in the windowed mode, it's always 800x600. Couldn't test the fullscreen mode, as the game says that the specified mode is not supported.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2021-08-20
    Tested with MSI Afterburner + RTSS (as SpecialK can't hook into the game) and a 144hz display set to 30, 60, 120 and 144hz. In all cases, the framerate has always been on 40 FPS.
  4. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2021-08-20
    Tested with a Xbox One controller (model 1708, wired). The game doesn't recognize any input from the controller, doesn't matter if the controller was plugged before the game was launched or once it's in the main menu.
  5. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2021-08-20
    Upon changing to another window, the game mutes all sounds.
  6. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2021-08-20
    Tested with MSI Afterburner and RTSS (as SpecialK can't hook into the game). Upon launching Afterburner and RTSS and going back into the game's window, RTSS shows that D3D9 is used.
  7. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2021-08-20
    OpenAL32.dll can be found in <path-to-game>.