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Revision as of 23:06, 25 October 2015

Balls of Steel
Balls of Steel cover
Developers
Wildfire Studios
Publishers
3D Realms
Release dates
Windows December 12, 1997
macOS (OS X) May 5, 2015[1]
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Balls of Steel on Wikipedia
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Ignore these if you have GOG.com version.

Patches

Patches are available to fix various issues. An unofficial v1.3c is also available.

BOS Loader

Adds windowed mode, bilinear filtering and Direct3D renderer.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358430/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358430/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings
General settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Hot-seat.
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

StickyKeys keeps re-enabling

Instructions

Slowdown in Scrolling table view

Instructions
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References