Difference between revisions of "Bookworm Adventures: Volume 2"

Latest revision as of 12:36, 26 March 2023

Bookworm
Bookworm	2003
Bookworm Adventures	2006
Bookworm Adventures: Volume 2	2009

General information

Official game site (archived)

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Amazon.com (unavailable)
Origin (unavailable)
Steam (unavailable)

This game is no longer available digitally

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Steam	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SteamPopCap\BWAVol2\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3630/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%PROGRAMDATA%\PopCap Games\BWAVol2\users\^{[Note 2]}
Steam	%PROGRAMDATA%\Steam\BWAVol2\users\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3630/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game options menu.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Only available resolution is 800x600.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Only available resolution is 800x600. 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

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

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 this problem^[1]
Disable hardware acceleration if fullscreen is on. Play the game in windowed mode. Hardware acceleration works fine while the game is windowed.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	7
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	BASS

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 MB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/3630/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (3630) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑ 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

↑ Verified by User:Stormshadow429 on 2023-03-26

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/3630/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (3630) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[gamedir-2] 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).

[3] Verified by User:Stormshadow429 on 2023-03-26

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

[1]

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-==Video settings==
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 {{Image|Bookworm Adventures Volume 2 Options.jpg|In-game options menu.}}
-{{Video settings
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 |wsgf link                  =
 |widescreen wsgf award      =
@@ Line 87: / Line 94: @@
 |antialiasing               = false
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-==Input settings==
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 |key remap                 = false
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 }}
-==Audio settings==
+==Audio==
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 |separate volume          = true
 |separate volume notes    =
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 |mute on focus lost notes =
 |eax support              =
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+|royalty free audio        = unknown
+|royalty free audio notes  =
 }}
@@ Line 192: / Line 204: @@
 ==Issues fixed==
 ===Low FPS===
-There are two ways of fixing the problem:
+{{Fixbox|description=There are two ways of fixing this problem|ref=<ref>{{Refcheck|user=Stormshadow429|date=2023-03-26}}</ref>|fix=
+# Disable hardware acceleration if fullscreen is on.
-* Disable hardware acceleration if fullscreen is on.
+# Play the game in windowed mode. Hardware acceleration works fine while the game is windowed.
-* Play the game in a window. Hardware acceleration works fine while the game is windowed.
+}}
 ==Other information==
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 |windows 32-bit exe     = true
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Developers

	PopCap Games
Engines
	PopCap Games Framework
Release dates
Windows	July 30, 2009
Reception
Metacritic	79
Taxonomy
Genres	Word
Series	Bookworm