Bookworm
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Developers | |
---|---|
PopCap Games | |
macOS (OS X) | Order N Development |
Engines | |
PopCap Games Framework | |
Release dates | |
Windows | February 25, 2003 |
macOS (OS X) | January 11, 2006 |
Taxonomy | |
Genres | Word |
Series | Bookworm |
Bookworm | |
---|---|
Bookworm | 2003 |
Bookworm Adventures | 2006 |
Bookworm Adventures: Volume 2 | 2009 |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | ||||
Games for Windows Marketplace (unavailable) | [1] | |||
Origin (unavailable) | Bookworm Deluxe | |||
Steam (unavailable) | Bookworm Deluxe |
- Bookworm Deluxe is the full version of the game
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3370/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | %PROGRAMDATA%\Steam\Bookworm\players[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3370/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
Origin | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | Only available resolution is 640x480. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Only available resolution is 640x480. Cannot be resized. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Capped at 100 FPS.[2] | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
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 types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English |
Issues fixed
Low FPS
There are two ways of fixing the problem:
- Disable hardware acceleration if fullscreen is on.
- Play the game in a window. Hardware acceleration works fine while the game is windowed.
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
DirectDraw | 7 | |
OpenGL | OS X only. | |
Software renderer |
Executable | PPC | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Windows | ||||
macOS (OS X) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
---|---|---|
Audio | BASS |
System requirements
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 2000 | XP, Vista |
Processor (CPU) | 700 MHz | 1 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 50 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible | 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
macOS (OS X) | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10.5.8 | 10.6.3 |
Processor (CPU) | G4 | G5 or Intel Core Duo |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 50 MB |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (3370) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Welcome to Games for Windows Marketplace - Games for Windows - last accessed on 19 August 2022
- ↑ Verified by User:ThatOneReaper on November 8, 2016