Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Warning for game developers: PCGamingWiki staff members will only ever reach out to you using the official press@pcgamingwiki.com mail address.
Be aware of scammers claiming to be representatives or affiliates of PCGamingWiki who promise a PCGW page for a game key.

Difference between revisions of "Croc: Legend of the Gobbos"

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Line 224: Line 224:
 
|glide versions        = 2.4
 
|glide versions        = 2.4
 
|glide notes            =  
 
|glide notes            =  
−
|software mode          =  
+
|software mode          = true
 
|software mode notes    =  
 
|software mode notes    =  
 
|mantle support        =  
 
|mantle support        =  

Revision as of 07:04, 27 May 2020

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos cover
Developers
Argonaut Games
Publishers
Fox Interactive
Engines
BRender
Release dates
Windows November 26, 1997
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos guide on StrategyWiki
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos on MobyGames
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos on Wikipedia
Icon overlay.png
Icon overlay.png
Croc
Croc: Legend of the Gobbos 1997
Croc 2 2000

Key points

It is possible to use the console version's full-length music thanks to fan patches.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

There are two official releases of Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. The original release only supports 3DFX graphics cards, editions later on added DirectX support, as well as some file changes. Use the Croc Unofficial Update to update an older releases to the DirectX compatible one.[1]

Notes

Compatible with all fan created content.

Croc Definitive Patch

Use a fan patch
Make a backup of Croc.exe and the gdata folder, in case anything goes wrong.
  1. Download the patch here.
  2. Unzip the contents of Croc Definitive Patch.zip into <path-to-game>.
  3. Start the game with Croc.exe.

Notes

Can not be used together with the "Music Patch", it provides it's own solution.
On weaker PC's, higher resolutions runs slower, change lighting to "Medium Lighting FX" or lower the resolution if lag occurs.
Gives the ability to use every type of soundtrack (PC, PSX and DEMO).
No need for wrappers, works with Windows 10.
Widescreen.

Music patch

Use a custom patch[2]

Notes

Replaces the redbook audio soundtrack with the soundtrack from the PS1 version, which includes numerous more tracks not present in other versions.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Argonaut Software\Croc[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\key.txt[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 2]

Video

Video settings
Video settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
 See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
 
 See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
 
 See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
 
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Use D3DWindower.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Game is capped at 30 FPS

Input

Input settings
Input settings

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

CrocRun.exe crashes

CrocRun.exe crashes[citation needed]

Set Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode on CrocRun.exe

Game crashes to desktop

Update the game

See Patches.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5 Second release only.
Glide 2.4
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. ↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  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