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Revision as of 22:59, 1 January 2016

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]
Balls of Steel on Wikipedia

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
No longer sold digitally due to licensing issues.[2]

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

Template:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358430/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/358430/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings
General settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

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
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible

Notes

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

References