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Revision as of 01:38, 29 October 2013

Populous: The Beginning
Populous: The Beginning cover
Developers
Bullfrog Productions
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
Modified Magic Carpet Engine
Release dates
Windows September 15, 1998
Populous: The Beginning on Wikipedia
Populous
Populous 1989
Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods 1991
Populous: The Beginning 1998

Key points

Poor compatibility with modern systems.

General information

Populous Wiki - A very small wiki for all Populous games
Populous: Reincarnated - A huge fan site dedicated to Populous: The Beginning
Populous: Reincarnated Wiki - A wiki for all Populous: The Beginning related information
GOG.com Community Discussions - For the entire Populous series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Template:Availability Table

The GOG.com version includes the Undiscovered Worlds expansion since 27th of September 2013[1].

Improvements

Patch 1.01

The latest official retail patch available is 1.01. The GOG.com version comes with this pre-installed.

Collective Populous Patch (1.03)

The unofficial Collective Populous Patch includes 1.01 fixes as well as a network hosting bug fix. It also removes the CD check and adds a restore tool along with an update tool.

This patch will update the game to the US version.

Displacements Patch

The unofficial Displacements Patch improves all landscape textures. This affects both the base game and its' expansion.

Game data

Template:Game Location Table

Save game cloud syncing

Template:Save Game Cloud Syncing

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Issues unresolved

Sluggish mouse in main menu

Issues fixed

Graphics card not detected for ATI/AMD cards

Instructions

Graphics Problem - Windows 7

This information is for users not using the GOG executable

Many users using Windows 7 may experience a problem whereby colours are not right. This can be solved by stopping the process explorer.exe (this is a windows process, so make sure you know how to restart it for when your finished playing) and rerunning POTB.exe.

This can also be solved by installing the version of Populous: The Beginning from popre.net and replacing your current installation

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB Free 250 MB Free
Video card (GPU) 32 MB video card

References