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POD: Planet of Death
POD: Planet of Death cover
Developers
Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows February 28, 1997
POD: Planet of Death on Wikipedia

Key points

Titled "POD" in North America

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes the Back to Hell expansion.
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Gold Edition. Included with Ubisoft+.
Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Back to Hell
Windows

Essential improvements

Playing POD Gold on Windows 10 (2018), a guide on how to fix POD Gold issues (GOG/CD version) on Windows 10, and how to add new cars/tracks.

Patches

Fixes a lot of compatibility issues on modern operating systems.
Apply Podhacks[1]
  1. Download PodHacks.zip (password is PodHacks).
  2. Extract PodHacks executable into <path-to-game>.
  3. Run the executable

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\DATA\ChShip\[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Normally the game only allows for resolutions up to 800x600.

Rename a DLL[citation needed]
  1. Install nGlide.
  2. Delete or rename glide2x.dll found in <path-to-game>.

Notes

Causes sky box issues on some tracks.
Recommended to first apply PodHacks.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Dutch
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Versus
LAN play
8
Online play
8

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5,
Glide
native support
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
System requirements are for the GOG.com release.

Notes

  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).

References