Chains
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Developers | |
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2DEngine | |
Publishers | |
Meridian4 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 25, 2008 |
macOS (OS X) | November 25, 2008 |
Taxonomy | |
Series | Chains |
Chains | |
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Chains | 2008 |
Super Chains | 2019 |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Publisher website | ||||
Amazon.com | ||||
Amazon.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam |
Essential improvements
Patches
- Steam version should be up to date. For DRM-free version, download the latest patch from developer's site.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\settings.lua[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11360/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\Save\*.lua[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11360/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | Only single widescreen resolution of 1280x768 (15:9). Force resolution in the configuration file. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Freely resizeable window, but is scaled from selected base resolution. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Always disabled. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
Color blind mode |
Input
Keyboard and mouse, touch | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | OS cursor is used. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Touchscreen optimised | [1] | |
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | Music and sound. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | No speech. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English |
Issues unresolved
Toggling to fullscreen crashes the game
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | XP, Vista | |
Processor (CPU) | 1 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 30 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
|
Sound (audio device) | DirectX compatible | |
Other | Keyboard and Mouse |
macOS (OS X) | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.5.8, 10.6.3 | |
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 60 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 128 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 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 (11360) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Steam curator: Touchscreen Games - Chains "100% Touch perfect gameplay."