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Hacknet

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Hacknet
Hacknet cover
Developers
Team Fractal Alligator
macOS (OS X) Ethan Lee
Linux Ethan Lee
Publishers
Surprise Attack Games
Engines
FNA[1]
Windows (alternate) XNA[2]
Release dates
Windows August 12, 2015
macOS (OS X) December 18, 2015
Linux December 18, 2015

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Official Website

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
DRM-free
Icon overlay.png
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Origin
Origin
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Twitch Twitch Desktop App
Windows
A free alpha version is available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Settings.txt[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) ~/Library/Application Support/Hacknet/Settings.txt
Linux $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Hacknet/Settings.txt

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Accounts[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) ~/Library/Application Support/Hacknet/Accounts
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/Hacknet/Accounts
Steam <Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/365450/remote/
Game installation folder is used by the Steam version in rare cases when the game cannot access the primary location.[3]
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

Template:Video settings

Multi-monitor

Modify settings file[3]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open Settings.txt.
  3. Modify the top two lines so they have your desired resolution width and height, respectively.
  4. Save and close the file.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
2 Available in the alpha versions.[4]

Issues unresolved

Crash on startup

Some graphics cards are unable to correctly tell Hacknet what resolution they use.
The developer is working on a permanent solution.
Manually add settings file[5]
  1. Download this backup settings file[offline].
  2. Go to the installation folder.
  3. Copy the file to the folder, overwriting as needed.

Notes

See Change in-game resolution for instructions on how to change the resolution listed in Settings.txt.
As the "official" replacement file is offline, create a "Settings" txt-file with the follwing lines to modify resolution, fullscreen etc.:

1280
1008
true
bloom: true
scanlines: true
muted: false
volume: 0.3
fontConfig: default
hasSaved: True
shouldMultisample: True
defaultLocale: en-us
drawMusicVis: True
Note that the first two lines are the screen resolution, the true/false in the third line is for fullscreen. Using 1008 rather than 1024 solved the "black screen on startup" problem in my case. Adjust resolution accordingly.

Change compatibility settings[5]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Right-click Hacknet.exe, then click Properties from the menu which appears.
  3. Go to the Compatibility tab.
  4. Check Run in 640x480 resolution and Run this program as an Administrator.
  5. Click OK.

Notes

Uncheck Run in 640x480 resolution once you've set your desired resolution in the in-game options menu.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
OpenGL 2.1, 3.0 2.1 support requires a compatible Mac or Linux OS and a graphics card supporting OpenGL 2.1 with ARB extensions.
Shader Model support 2.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800
AMD Radeon HD4800 series
512 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7.5
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL 3.0 compatible (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) glibc 2.15
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) OpenGL 3.0 compatible (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)

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