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Latest revision as of 22:57, 10 May 2024

Earthworm Jim 3D
Earthworm Jim 3D cover
Developers
VIS Entertainment
Publishers
Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
Windows May 24, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Art styles Stylized
Genres Platform
Series Earthworm Jim
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Earthworm Jim 3D on HowLongToBeat
Earthworm Jim 3D on IGDB
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Earthworm Jim 3D guide on StrategyWiki
Earthworm Jim 3D on MobyGames
Earthworm Jim 3D on Wikipedia
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Earthworm Jim
Earthworm Jim: Special Edition 1995
Earthworm Jim 1996
Earthworm Jim 2 1996
Earthworm Jim 3D 2000

Earthworm Jim 3D is a singleplayer third-person platform game in the Earthworm Jim series.

The game offers high resolution support natively, and runs fine in modern Windows.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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 Lacks all in-game music.[1] Bundled with Earthworm Jim and Earthworm Jim 2.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/41600/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\GameSave.SAV[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/41600/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Native 4:3 ratio is stretched to fill widescreen resolutions. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Native 4:3 ratio is stretched to fill ultrawide resolutions. See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
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)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No FPS cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Use the Earthworm Jim 3D Trainer
  1. Download the Earthworm Jim 3D Trainer here.
  2. Edit the aRatio value inside Earthworm Trainer.exe.config to set the desired aspect ratio. Default is 16:9 (1.77).

Notes

Automatically applies the aspect ratio patch if the game is running.
Tested with the GOG version. Steam version support is unknown.
Vert-. The FOV decreases the higher the aspect ratio.

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
Remap may be partial on some controllers.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Left stick is auto-assigned for movement; right stick, trigger buttons, and d-pad cannot be mapped.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

General settings.
General settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
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
German
French
Spanish
Retail version only.
Italian
Polish
Available in GOG.com version.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
Game currently crashing after 1 minute with dgVoodoo 2.

Issues fixed

The game does not start on certain GPUs

In certain graphics cards, such as the Intel Iris Xe Graphics, the game displays graphical glitches like low lighting in the graphical interface or inability to render 3D elements. While there’s no solution for this issue with integrated GPUs, there is a workaround.
Disable Nvidia Optimus[2]
Use DgVoodoo 2 wrapper[3]
  1. Download and extract DgVoodoo 2 wrapper.
  2. From MS folder copy files D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll and place them in a folder with a game (where EarthwormJim3D.exe file is).
  3. Start dgVoodooSetup.exe and configure General Settings.
  4. Go to DirectX tab and make sure Disable and passthru to real DirectX is unchecked.
  5. Choose dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card in Videocard field.
  6. Click Apply and OK.
  7. Start the game.

The text fonts are unreadable

In certain GPUs, the text fonts have graphical glitches and are not readable.
Use DgVoodoo 2 wrapper[citation needed]
Update drivers for gpu[4]

The game has no sound

Set audio sample rate to 48000 Hz[5]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D Accelerator
DirectX 7.0 compatible
Other 8x CD-ROM drive


Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  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).

References

  1. ↑ Works fine but :: Earthworm Jim 3D General Discussions - last accessed on 2023-10-08
  2. ↑ Verified by User:Epicgames4 on 2024-01-16
    I was able to run the game without problem with this, Checked on Windows 11 Insider Preview 22635.3061 (ni_release).
  3. ↑ Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - PCGamingWiki. Instructions taken from the previous page.
  4. ↑ Verified by User:Epicgames4 on 2024-02-07
    Verified on Windows 11 Insider Preview 22635.3139 (ni_release) in RTX 3070 Laptop (Bypassing Nvidia Optimus)
  5. ↑ Verified by User:Epicgames4 on 2024-05-09