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'''Key points'''
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{{ii}} This game is no longer actively developed. For an alternative, see [https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Clone_Hero Clone Hero.]
  
 
==Availability==
 
==Availability==
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===Configuration file(s) location===
 
===Configuration file(s) location===
 
{{Game data|
 
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==Audio==
 
==Audio==
 
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==Issues unresolved==
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==Issues==
{{Fixbox|description=Game refuses to run on 64-bit Windows, with the error code "GLError: 1285" "Not enough memory"|ref=<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.fretsonfire.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=60591|title=Can't play FoF GL error 1285|date=2020-12-17}}</ref><ref>{{Refcheck|user=Dandelion Sprout|date=2020-12-17}}</ref>
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{{Fixbox|description=Game refuses to run on 64-bit Windows, with the error code "GLError: 1285" "Not enough memory".|ref=<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.fretsonfire.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=60591|title=Can't play FoF GL error 1285|date=2020-12-17}}</ref><ref>{{Refcheck|user=Dandelion Sprout|date=2020-12-17}}</ref>
 +
 
 +
An older version of Frets on Fire, [https://sourceforge.net/projects/fretsonfire/files/fretsonfire/1.2.451/ 1.2.451], is free from this issue.
 
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|macos app notes        =  
 
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|OSfamily = Windows
 
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|minOS    =  
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|minCPU  =  
 
|minCPU  =  
|minRAM  =  
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|minRAM  = 128 MB
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Frets on Fire
Frets on Fire cover
Developers
Unreal Voodoo
Engines
Pygame
Release dates
Windows August 3, 2006
macOS (OS X) August 3, 2006
Linux August 3, 2006
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Genres Music/rhythm
Frets on Fire on Wikipedia

Frets on Fire is a singleplayer music/rhythm game.

Key points

This game is no longer actively developed. For an alternative, see Clone Hero.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\fretsonfire\fretsonfire.ini
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Tutorial is fully subtitled. Lyrics are not supported.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Dutch
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Brazilian Portuguese
Turkish

Issues

Game refuses to run on 64-bit Windows, with the error code "GLError: 1285" "Not enough memory".[1][2]

An older version of Frets on Fire, 1.2.451, is free from this issue.

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
PowerPC and 68K support is offered by distro package repos.[3]

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 60 MB
Video card (GPU) Graphics card with OpenGL support


References

  1. Can't play FoF GL error 1285 - last accessed on 2020-12-17
  2. Verified by User:Dandelion Sprout on 2020-12-17
  3. Debian -- Details of package fretsonfire-game in buster - last accessed on 2020-12-17