Hype: The Time Quest

Hype: The Time Quest

Developers
	Ubisoft Montreal
Publishers
	Playmobil Interactive
Engines
	Ubisoft OpenSpace
Release dates
Windows	November 20, 1999
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Platform, RPG
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Medieval, Fantasy
Series	Playmobil

Playmobil
Laura's Happy Adventures	1998
Alex Builds His Farm	1999
Hype: The Time Quest	1999
Rescue from Rock Castle	2004
The Big Treasure Hunt	2005
Playmobil Alarm	2007
Playmobil Constructions	2007
Playmobil Knights	2009
Playmobil Pirates	2009
Playmobil: The Movie VR Adventures	Cancelled

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Modern systems require a workaround for the 16-bit installer; see Installing on modern versions of Windows.

The game may crash when using Alt+Tab ↹ in fullscreen. See Issues fixed.

Character animations are capped at 30 FPS.

Hype: The Time Quest is a singleplayer first-person and third-person action, adventure, puzzle, platform and RPG game in the Playmobil series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc DRM.

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

This game is not available digitally.

A demo is available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%WINDIR%\UbiSoft\ubi.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Gamedata\SaveGame

Video

Video settings.

Ubisoft Configuration tool.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen Patch.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen Patch.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen Patch.
Field of view (FOV)		See Widescreen Patch.
Windowed		The game can be forced to run in Windowed mode, when using dgVoodoo2.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Use dgVoodoo2. Only works with the Direct3D version.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Use dgVoodoo2.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Can be forced from nGlide or dgVoodoo2 wrappers.
60 FPS		Capped at 48fps in-game and 50fps in menus (on both D3D6 and 3DFX rendering). See High frame rate.
120+ FPS		See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

High frame rate

Remove FPS cap

Open MaiDFXvr_bleu.exe with a hex editor such as HxD. Press Ctrl+R and set Datatype to Hex-values. Search for 320000002564202066707300 and replace the 32 at the start with the desired framerate (in hexadecimal). Search for 8B483883C40485C9740C, it should be followed by E8 XX XX XX XX 6A 01 (the XX might be different depending on the localization - for the English .exe, it's 4E 7E 14 00) Replace the last 01 with 00 to completely disable the frame limit in the menus. Save the file. Notes Too high framerates ingame and menus may cause menu navigation to be too hard and game speed to be way too high.

Input

Keyboard Settings

Gamepad Settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		The game doesn't support mouse.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Limited to remapping buttons.
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

Sound settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		Intro and outro are lacking subtitles. Aside from it - subtitles are always enabled in-game.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese				"Hype: O Cavaleiro do Tempo".
Spanish

Issues fixed

Crash after the intro when using Glide wrapper

Game needs to have been run in admin mode at least once, since it needs special privileges to write its settings in ubi.ini, which is in the Windows folder.

Disable movies in configuration file
Edit %WINDIR%\UbiSoft\ubi.ini Under section [Hype - The Time Quest] find a line PlayVideo=1 and change it to PlayVideo=0

Black screen when using Glide wrapper

Install compatibility fixes
Download installation package for Hype: The Time Quest and extract it. Go to a folder Compatibility and run PatchInstall.bat to add the compatibility entries to system's database.

Game crashes on Alt+Tab

Install dgVoodoo 2.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6
Glide	3.01

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Installing on modern versions of Windows

64-bit versions of Windows can't run the CD installer due to it being a 16-bit application. Trying to run the installer in Windows 7 x64 will cause the process to freeze in the background and require the task manager to close.

Alternative Installer[citation needed]
Download and use Alternative Installer. Notes Alternative installer only works with English, German and Polish version of the game. For documentation and common problems, see Hype: The Time Quest - Alternative Installer

Manual installation

Create a folder named Hype somewhere on your hard drive (from now on, we'll be referring to it as <path-to-game>). From the root directory of your CD copy files: DSETUP.DLL, DSETUP16.DLL, DSETUP32.DLL to <path-to-game>. Copy folders DLL, Gamedata and InstData to <path-to-game>. Go to exe folder on your CD. Copy Gli.ini to <path-to-game>. Copy MaiD3Dvr_bleu.exe from D3D folder to <path-to-game>. Copy MaiDFXvr_bleu.exe from Glide 3x folder copy to <path-to-game>. Copy all files from UbiConfig folder to <path-to-game>. Go back to a root folder of your CD and go to LangData\<your language>\world\. Copy folder levels to <path-to-game>\Gamedata\World. When asked about scaling folders, answer yes. Go to the Windows directory (%WINDIR%) In it create a folder named UbiSoft. From the root directory of your CD copy files: DSETUP.DLL, DSETUP16.DLL, DSETUP32.DLL and SetupUbi.exe to a newly created %WINDIR%\UbiSoft It may be possible that the folder already exists, as it's shared with other Ubisoft product of that era. In such case, do not replace any of the files. From InstData directory on your CD, copy strings.eng to %WINDIR%\UbiSoft Download installation package for Hype: The Time Quest and extract it. From config folder copy ubi.ini to %WINDIR%\UbiSoft If you had other Ubisoft products installed that use the same application, you have to manually edit ubi.ini adding Hype - The Time Quest under [INSTALLED PRODUCTS] as well as the section responsible for game configuration (just copy lines from [Hype - The Time Quest] to [OSD] from ubi.ini provided in installation package). If your language is different than English, edit ubi.ini, find a line Language=English under [Hype - The Time Quest] section and change it to a language you're using in your copy (e.g. for Polish it's Language=Polish - incorrect language will make all the characters mute). Go to a folder, where you've extracted the files from installation package. GO to a folder Compatibility and run PatchInstall.bat to add the compatibility entries to system's database. Install nGlide wrapper, if you haven't already. Finally, go to <path-to-game> and run Ubiassistant.exe and choose 3DFX configuration. Run the game using MaiDFXvr_bleu.exe.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, NT
Processor (CPU)	200 MHz with MMX	233 MHz with MMX
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	115 MB	490 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1 compatible	Glide 3 compatible 3D Card 4 MB of VRAM