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Revision as of 23:48, 12 November 2021

This page is for the 1997 game. For the unrelated 2021 game, see Overboard! (2021).

Overboard!
Overboard! cover
Developers
Psygnosis[1]
Release dates
Windows November 1997[1]
Overboard! on HowLongToBeat
Overboard! on IGDB
Overboard! on MobyGames
Overboard! on Wikipedia

Key points

Released as Shipwreckers! in North America

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Requires disc to run
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ob.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Menus & Videos 640x480, gameplay resolutions higher than 2048x1152 crash.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output with Aureal A3D and DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
A3D 1.0.
3D positional audio is limited to the X-axis.[2]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
5 Versus
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 90 MB


Notes

  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).

References