Frank Herbert's Dune
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Developers | |
---|---|
Widescreen Games[1] | |
Publishers | |
Europe | Cryo Interactive[1] |
North America | DreamCatcher Interactive[1][2] |
Engines | |
RenderWare | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 25, 2001 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action |
Themes | Sci-fi |
Series | Dune |
Dune | |
---|---|
Dune | 1992 |
Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty | 1992 |
Dune 2000 | 1998 |
Emperor: Battle for Dune | 2001 |
Frank Herbert's Dune | 2001 |
OpenRA (unofficial) | 2010 |
Dune: Spice Wars | 2023 |
Dune: Imperium | 2024 |
Dune: Awakening | TBA |
Frank Herbert's Dune is a singleplayer third-person action game in the Dune series.
The game is a flawed PlayStation 2 port, with major rendering glitches on modern systems.
General information
- Official Website (retrieved)
- Dune Wiki - The Duniverse
- Dune2K.com - A major Dune fansite with an active community
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\configpc.cfg[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\Dune_*.sav[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | Can be set by editing configuration file(s) location | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Can be set by editing configuration file(s) location | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
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 | |||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
- An external Configuration Tool can be accessed with
<path-to-game>\VideoCfg.exe
or through a Start Menu shortcut
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | Music and Sound Effects/Speech | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Portuguese | [3] | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Released as "Duna" (Infogrames do Brasil). | |||
Russian | 1C Localization. | |||
Spanish |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
vorpX | G3D User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, read importent hints in profile introdution. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum. |
Issues fixed
Vsync (Enabled by default) not working
Use dgVoodoo 2 |
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|
"Renderer initialisation failed" error
Set the ZBuffer option to 16 Bits .
|
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Texture format patch (fix color glitch)
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 7 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
---|---|---|
Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | ME, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 400 MHz | Intel Pentium III 500 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | 128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 540 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.0 compatible | 32 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).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frank Herbert's Dune - WideScreen Games (retrieved)
- ↑ GAMES :: Frank Herbert's DUNE (retrieved) - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Verified by User:DarkSonicPT on 2023-03-18
- ↑ http://dege.freeweb.hu/Patches/bin/FrankHerbertsDune_patched.zip