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Carnivores

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Carnivores
Carnivores cover
Developers
Action Forms
Publishers
WizardWorks
Engines
AtmosFear
Release dates
Windows 1998
Reception
Metacritic N/A
IGDB N/A
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Hunting, Shooter, Sports, Simulation
Series Carnivores
Carnivores on HowLongToBeat
Carnivores on IGDB
Carnivores on MobyGames
Carnivores on Wikipedia
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Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunt 2022

Carnivores is the first game in the Carnivores series of hunting games by Action Forms.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\trophy**.sav[Note 1]
The game allows up to 5 save slots.
Profiles can be manually renamed by editing the first line of code when opening trophy**.sav
Save slots can be manually rearranged by renaming the respective trophy**.sav file correspondingly (for example, renaming trophy00.sav to trophy01.sav will move it from the first save slot to the second save slot).

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 4:3 supported natively.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
No volume sliders at all.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

No sound on Windows XP and newer

Change Windows compatibility mode
  1. Right-click HUNTSOFT.EXE or HUNT3DFX.EXE depending on the executable you want to run and select Properties
  2. Go to the Compatibility tab
  3. Make sure Run this program in compatibility mode for is checked and set to Windows 98 / Windows Me

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95/98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 150 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 85MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX-compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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