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==Essential improvements==
 
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Latest revision as of 11:00, 29 October 2022

Ecstatica
Ecstatica cover
Developers
Andrew Spencer Studios
Publishers
Psygnosis
Release dates
DOS 1994
Windows 1997
Taxonomy
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control
Genres Survival horror
Themes Fantasy
Series Ecstatica
Ecstatica on HowLongToBeat
Ecstatica on IGDB
Ecstatica on MobyGames
Ecstatica on Wikipedia
Ecstatica
Ecstatica 1994
Ecstatica II 1997

Availability

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

Essential improvements

Peixoto's patch

MIDI patch

  • Gets the music working

Playing Ecstatica on Modern Systems

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
56 fps cap
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA 320x200
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel i486 SX 25 MHz
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 MB
Video card (GPU) VGA 256 color


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