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Harbinger
Harbinger cover
Developers
Silverback Entertainment
Publishers
DreamCatcher Interactive
Release dates
Windows February 26, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 57
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres ARPG
Themes Sci-fi, Cyberpunk
Harbinger on IGDB
Harbinger on MobyGames
Harbinger on Wikipedia

Harbinger is a singleplayer isometric ARPG game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
English version: SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1]
Russian version: StarForce DRM
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
A demo is available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\HarbingerCfg.exe[Note 2]
Windows <path-to-game>\Harbinger.ini[Note 2]
Windows <path-to-game>\Config.cfg[Note 2]
Most game configuration is handled by an external tool and written to an encrypted configuration file.
While Harbinger.ini does contain sound provider settings, the rest of the file is dedicated to game asset locations.
On Windows 10, the configuration tool must be run with administrative privileges for changes to be saved, regardless of install location.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save\[Note 2]

Video

External configuration tool.
External configuration tool.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 800x600 and 1024x768 are supported
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Control mapping.
Control mapping.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Configured via external config utility
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

General settings in-game.
General settings in-game.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Independent Music and Sound Effects controls
Surround sound
Configured via external config utility
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Configured via external config utility

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 650 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB DirectX 8.0


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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