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Hellbender

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Hellbender
Hellbender cover
Developers
Terminal Reality
Publishers
Microsoft Game Studios
Release dates
Windows August 31, 1996
Taxonomy
Series Fury3
Hellbender on Wikipedia
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Fury3
Fury3 1995
Hellbender 1996

Key points

The setup program must be run manually on modern versions of Windows.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
CD key
Windows
A trial version is available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\system\HELLBEND.INI[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\*.hel[Note 1]
Save files (*.hel) can be stored anywhere (this location is used by default).

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
 320x200, 320x400, or 640x480.
Multi-monitor
 
Ultra-widescreen
 
4K Ultra HD
 
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with F4.
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)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
E.V.E. voice over only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
8

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

"This Setup program is not intended to be used with your version of Windows" error when installing

Run setup manually[1]
  1. Open a command prompt window.
  2. Run the following command: G:\setup\acmsetup /Z customui /T Furyw32.stf /S g:\ (replace both instances of G: with the optical drive letter).
  3. Follow the setup steps normally.

Corrupted graphics in fullscreen mode

Use dgVoodoo 2[2]
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract the contents of the MS folder into the installation folder.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker Video Technology

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 75 Intel Pentium 90
System memory (RAM) 8 MB 16+ MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 32 MB 77 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA bus video, 256-color display
DirectX 2.0 compatible 		3-D accelerated graphics card
Other 4X CD-ROM


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