Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Key points
- Modern systems require a workaround for the 16-bit installer; see Installing on modern versions of Windows.
- The game may crash when using Alt+Tab ↹ in fullscreen. See Issues fixed.
- Character animations are capped at 30 FPS.
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- This game is not available digitally.
- A demo is available.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Ubisoft Configuration tool.
Remove FPS cap[3]
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- Open
MaiDFXvr_bleu.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
- Press Ctrl+R and set Datatype to Hex-values.
- Search for
320000002564202066707300 and replace the 32 at the start with the desired framerate (in hexadecimal).
- Search for
8B483883C40485C9740C , it should be followed by E8 XX XX XX XX 6A 01 (the XX might be different depending on the localization - for the English .exe, it's 4E 7E 14 00 )
- Replace the last
01 with 00 to completely disable the frame limit in the menus.
- Save the file.
Notes
- Too high framerates ingame and menus may cause menu navigation to be too hard and game speed to be way too high.
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Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Intro and outro are lacking subtitles. Aside from it - subtitles are always enabled in-game. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Polish |
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Portuguese |
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"Hype: O Cavaleiro do Tempo".[4] |
Spanish |
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Issues fixed
Crash after the intro when using Glide wrapper
- Game needs to have been run in admin mode at least once, since it needs special privileges to write its settings in ubi.ini, which is in the Windows folder.
Disable movies in configuration file[5]
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- Edit
%WINDIR%\UbiSoft\ubi.ini
- Under section
[Hype - The Time Quest] find a line PlayVideo=1 and change it to PlayVideo=0
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Black screen when using Glide wrapper
Game crashes on Alt+Tab
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
6 |
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Glide |
3.01 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Installing on modern versions of Windows
64-bit versions of Windows can't run the CD installer due to it being a 16-bit application. Trying to run the installer in Windows 7 x64 will cause the process to freeze in the background and require the task manager to close.
Manual installation[7]
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- Create a folder named Hype somewhere on your hard drive (from now on, we'll be referring to it as <path-to-game>).
- From the root directory of your CD copy files: DSETUP.DLL, DSETUP16.DLL, DSETUP32.DLL to <path-to-game>.
- Copy folders DLL, Gamedata and InstData to <path-to-game>.
- Go to exe folder on your CD.
- Copy Gli.ini to <path-to-game>.
- Copy MaiD3Dvr_bleu.exe from D3D folder to <path-to-game>.
- Copy MaiDFXvr_bleu.exe from Glide 3x folder copy to <path-to-game>.
- Copy all files from UbiConfig folder to <path-to-game>.
- Go back to a root folder of your CD and go to LangData\<your language>\world\.
- Copy folder levels to <path-to-game>\Gamedata\World.
- When asked about scaling folders, answer yes.
- Go to the Windows directory (
%WINDIR% )
- In it create a folder named
UbiSoft .
- From the root directory of your CD copy files:
DSETUP.DLL , DSETUP16.DLL , DSETUP32.DLL and SetupUbi.exe to a newly created %WINDIR%\UbiSoft
- It may be possible that the folder already exists, as it's shared with other Ubisoft product of that era. In such case, do not replace any of the files.
- From
InstData directory on your CD, copy strings.eng to %WINDIR%\UbiSoft
- Download installation package for Hype: The Time Quest and extract it.
- From config folder copy
ubi.ini to %WINDIR%\UbiSoft
- If you had other Ubisoft products installed that use the same application, you have to manually edit ubi.ini adding
Hype - The Time Quest under [INSTALLED PRODUCTS] as well as the section responsible for game configuration (just copy lines from [Hype - The Time Quest] to [OSD] from ubi.ini provided in installation package).
- If your language is different than English, edit ubi.ini, find a line
Language=English under [Hype - The Time Quest] section and change it to a language you're using in your copy (e.g. for Polish it's Language=Polish - incorrect language will make all the characters mute).
- Go to a folder, where you've extracted the files from installation package.
- GO to a folder Compatibility and run PatchInstall.bat to add the compatibility entries to system's database.
- Install nGlide wrapper, if you haven't already.
- Finally, go to <path-to-game> and run Ubiassistant.exe and choose 3DFX configuration.
- Run the game using MaiDFXvr_bleu.exe.
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95, 98, NT | |
Processor (CPU) |
200 MHz with MMX
| 233 MHz with MMX |
System memory (RAM) |
32 MB |
64 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
115 MB |
490 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1 compatible
| Glide 3 compatible 3D Card 4 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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