Barnyard

Barnyard

Developers
	Blue Tongue Entertainment
Publishers
	THQ
Russia	Noviy Disk
Engines
	TOSHI
Release dates
Windows	August 1, 2006
Reception
Metacritic	67
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Adventure, Mini-games, Open world, Party game
Sports	Golf, Pool or snooker
Vehicles	Automobile, Bicycle
Art styles	Stylized
Series	Nickelodeon

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		CD-ROM used only for installation.

This game is not available digitally.

Demos

A demo is available here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\THQ\Barnyard\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\

Video

Video Options

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Use dgVoodoo2.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Use dgVoodoo2.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Use dgVoodoo2.
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen resolution

Hor+ Reference this page if values for your aspect ratio or screen resolution are not listed here. Make backup copies of <path-to-game>/Barnyard/Barnyard.exe and <path-to-game>/Barnyard/Setup/Setup.exe. Right-click on Barnyard.exe, select Properties, and uncheck the Read-only box. Repeat for Setup.exe. Open Barnyard.exe in a hex editor such as HxD. Search for the hex-value 44 68 00 00 48 44. (It should be at offset 0x235638.) Replace the 00 00 48 44 value with: 00 40 85 44 for 16:9. 00 00 70 44 for 16:10. 00 80 3B 44 for 5:4. 00 80 6A 44 for 25:16. 00 00 7A 44 for 15:9. Search for the hex-value 28 20 03. (It should be at offset 0x262DFC.) Replace the 20 03 value with your desired width: 00 05 for 1280. 56 05 for 1366. 80 07 for 1920. 00 0A for 2560. 00 0F for 3840. Find the nearby hex-value 58 02. (It should be at offset 0x262E05.) Replace the 58 02 value with your desired height: D0 02 for 720. 00 03 for 768. 38 04 for 1080. A0 05 for 1440. 70 08 for 2160. Search for the hex-value 92 0A 86 3F C3. (It should be at offset 0x3081D6.) Replace the 92 0A 86 value with: 62 10 A8 for 16:9. 1D B9 9C for 16:10. D6 83 7E for 5:4. 91 95 97 for 25:16. EE 8E 9F for 15:9. Save Barnyard.exe. Open Setup.exe in your hex editor. Search for the hex-value 20 03 00 00 58 02. (It should be at offset 0xB06C.) Replace the 20 03 value with your desired width and 58 02 with your desired height. (See above.) Save Setup.exe and close your hex editor. Run Setup.exe and your new resolution should now appear in the Screen Size drop-down list. Select it and click Apply.

Windowed

Create a new registry entry
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\THQ\Barnyard\ Create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named RealForcedWindowed. Change the newly created value to 1, and set it to Decimal.

Input

Control Options

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Controller support is disabled/unused by default. See Controller support for a workaround.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		See Controller support.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

Generic/other controllers		See Controller support.
Button prompts

Controller support

Barnyard has native controller support despite the game's system requirements stating otherwise, but is disabled/unused by default as the configuration tool lacks several options, so it needs to be manually enabled through the system registry.

Create a new registry entry
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\THQ\Barnyard\ Create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named ControllerEnabled. Change the newly created value to 1, and set it to Decimal. If using an XInput controller, several button inputs will be mapped incorrectly by default, download this XInput Plus patch to enhance Xbox controller support.

Audio

Audio Options

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effects, Music and Speech.
Surround sound		7.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Russian				Local retail release only.

US and UK versions only contain an English language option, while other European versions support 5 languages, but do not include English language options.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8	Despite the game's system requirements stating it requires DirectX 9, it uses Direct3D 8 for rendering instead.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	FMOD
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000, ME, XP	Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 700 MHz	Intel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.7 GB	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 8500 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	128 MB of VRAM