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Clive Barker's Undying

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Clive Barker's Undying
Clive Barker's Undying cover
Developers
EA Los Angeles
Mac OS (Classic) Westlake Interactive
macOS (OS X) Westlake Interactive
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Mac OS Aspyr Media
OS X Aspyr Media
Engines
Unreal Engine 1
Release dates
Windows February 21, 2001
Mac OS (Classic) June 12, 2002
macOS (OS X) June 12, 2002
Clive Barker's Undying on Wikipedia
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General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Comes pre-configured with nGlide.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

Texture Patch fixes issues with some textures (already present in the GOG.com version).

Texture Updater

Texture Updater updates original textures with detail textures to improve image quality.

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video file[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Help\.
  2. Delete or rename Intro.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\System\*.ini[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.
Advanced video settings.
Advanced video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Use Undying Widescreen Fix[citation needed]
  1. Download the Undying Widescreen Fix 1.01.
  2. Extract the contents to <path-to-game>\System\.
  3. Download nGlide (version 1.05 or higher) and open the setup file with 7-Zip.
  4. Extract nGlide_config.exe and the various .dll files to <path-to-game>\System\.
  5. Go to the in-game video settings and set the resolution.
    • For custom resolutions, press Tab and enter setres 2560x1440 (replace 2560x1440 with your desired resolution).

Notes

Alternative fix for Direct3D rendering can be found here. Also fixes issues with cropped cutscenes and weapon models.
Higher resolutions will crash the game; use Legacy D3D Resolution Hack to remove resolution limits.

Field of view (FOV)

The default FOV is 90° when outputting a 4:3 image.
Set custom FOV[citation needed]
  1. Press Tab while playing.
  2. Type in and enter fov x (replace x with your desired FOV).
    • To match the original FOV, use 100.3 (16:10), 106.2 (16:9), or 121.1 (21:9).

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Force borderless fullscreen (nGlide)[citation needed]
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Edit and Add.
  3. Set the Path to <path-to-game>\System\Undying.exe.
  4. Set Do not notify on task switch.
  5. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed.
  6. Click on DirectX tab, set DirectX 9.
  7. Click OK, then File and Save.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Enable Vsync[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\System\
  2. Open System.ini.
  3. Change UseVSync=False to UseVSync=True
  4. Save your changes.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

May require DirectSound3D restoration software to restore proper audio functionality on Windows Vista and later.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Only on French retail copy. French patch for GOG.com version here.
Russian
Only on Russian retail copy.
Spanish
Download 1 and download 2.

Issues fixed

Disable Mouse Acceleration

Enable DirectInput
  1. Launch Undying and load a save.
  2. Open console by pressing Tab key and enter preferences.
  3. expand the Display selection and change UseDirectInput parameter to True.
  4. Close Preferences window.

"3d hardware initialization failed" error

Use dgVoodoo[3]
  1. Download and extract dgVoodoo.
  2. Open the MS folder and copy the contents to <path-to-game>\System\.
  3. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe.
  4. Click on Add and select the installation folder.
  5. Disable Capture mouse in the General tab.
  6. Go to the DirectX tab and disable dgVoodoo Watermark.
  7. Apply changes and start the game.

Windows 8 low frame rate in fullscreen

Use dgVoodoo[3]

See "3d hardware initialization failed" error to fix.

Gamma doesn't work on Windows 8 and later

Use dgVoodoo[3]

See "3d hardware initialization failed" error to fix.

No mouse access with ReShade

Rename ReShade files[4]
  1. Rename dxgi.dll and dxgi.ini to dinput.dll and dinput.ini.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
2D
Playing in 2D requires dgVoodoo2 (Glide) with vorpx dgVoodoo2 base profile.Note: There are a few experimental 3D profiles, see: here, or here

Other information

API

An in depth comparison of the Glide and Direct3D renderers can be found on the GOG forums. Of note is that Direct3D takes advantage of 32-bit assets, but Glide has more accurate and variable lighting and shadows.
Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Glide 2
Software renderer
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 OSR2
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 400 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 90 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 8.6
Processor (CPU) PowerPC G3 400 MHz
System memory (RAM) 96 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB
Video card (GPU) ATI Rage 128
16 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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