Asterix & Obelix XXL
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This page is for the original 2004 game. For the remaster, see Asterix & Obelix XXL: Romastered.
Developers | |
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Étranges Libellules | |
Publishers | |
Atari | |
Russia | Akella[1] |
Engines | |
RenderWare | |
Release dates | |
Windows | June 18, 2004 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Platform |
Themes | Classical, Europe |
Series | Asterix & Obelix XXL |
Availability
Essential improvements
64-bit patch
- Fixes crash "An installation Error occured : Module 50279" for 64 bits Windows OS users.
- Fixed ending cutscene crash.
Quality of Life patch
- Adds widescreen support.
- Fixes the right stick on the gamepad.
- Adds mouse imput.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVE\AOXXL.sav[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVE\AOXXL.sav[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Use Quality of Life Patch. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Use Quality of Life Patch. | ||
4K Ultra HD | Use Quality of Life Patch. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Use Quality of Life Patch. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Up to 8x MSAA. | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Off by default. See Vertical sync (Vsync). | ||
60 FPS | Capped at 63 FPS. | ||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Vertical sync (Vsync)
- The game's real executable is
GameModule.elb
which cannot be properly forced unless using the Polish version, which has all the data in the exe file.
Rename GameModule.elb to axxl.exe .[2]
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | Mouse isn't used at all. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | ||
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PlayStation button prompts | ||
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes |
Generic/other controllers | ||
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Button prompts |
Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | DInput only. | |
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sliders for music, sound and voice. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish | Local retail re-release only, download. | |||
Russian | Local retail only. | |||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
Very low fps
- The game is very low fps on modern operating systems due to broken 3D audio compatibility.[citation needed]
Use DirectSound 3D restoration software. |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9.0b |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 98, 2000, Me, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 700 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 663 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS ATI Radeon 7500 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0b compatible |
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Sound (audio device) | DirectX 9.0b compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ [1] - last accessed on 2023-02-08
- ↑ Verified by User:Blackbird on 2019-10-08
- Tested using Nvidia Inspector