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{{ii}} Newer version of [https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2599-brilliant-digital-entertainment-digital-projector-1999 Digital Projector] enables 1024x768 resolution and fixes rendering issues in 3D hardware accelerated mode.
  
 
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{{ii}} Use a newer version of the [https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2599-brilliant-digital-entertainment-digital-projector-1999 Digital Projector].
  
 
==Other information==
 
==Other information==

Revision as of 18:19, 15 March 2023

Gravity Angels
Gravity Angels cover
Developers
Brilliant Digital Entertainment
Release dates
Windows 1998

General information

Episode 1 - Alien Discovery
Episode 2 - Betrayal
Episode 3 - Payback
Episode 4 - Death Force

Availability

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

Essential improvements

Digital Projector

Newer version of Digital Projector enables 1024x768 resolution and fixes rendering issues in 3D hardware accelerated mode.

dgVoodoo 2

Enables 32-bit color rendering and can be used to force higher resolutions and anti-aliasing.
Instructions[1]
  1. Follow the installation instructions for dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX2-8 games.
  2. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe and in the DirectX tab set the resolution and anti-aliasing.

Notes

For anti-aliasing to work, in the game settings menu select 3D hardware acceleration.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Brilliant Digital Entertainment\PROJECTOR

Save game data location

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

Video

Digital Projector settings menu.
Digital Projector settings menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 640x480 and 800x600 are available. Game is rendered in letterboxed widescreen.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Camera can be controlled by the player.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Can be forced using dgVoodoo 2 when running in 3D hardware accelerated mode.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Can be forced using dgVoodoo 2 when running in 3D hardware accelerated mode.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Broken rendering order in 3D hardware accelerated mode

Use a newer version of the Digital Projector.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows[2]
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium (166 MHz)
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB


Notes

  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. Verified by User:Antrad on March 14, 2023
  2. Readme file.