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Hype: The Time Quest

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Hype: The Time Quest
Hype: The Time Quest cover
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
Hype: The Time Quest on HowLongToBeat
Hype: The Time Quest on IGDB
Hype: The Time Quest on MobyGames
Hype: The Time Quest on Wikipedia
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Warnings

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

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
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).
This game is not available digitally.
A demo is available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %WINDIR%\UbiSoft\ubi.ini[Note 2]

Save game data location

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

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.
Ubisoft Configuration tool.
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)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

High frame rate

Remove FPS cap[3]
  1. Open MaiDFXvr_bleu.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Press Ctrl+R and set Datatype to Hex-values.
  3. Search for 320000002564202066707300 and replace the 32 at the start with the desired framerate (in hexadecimal).
  4. 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)
  5. Replace the last 01 with 00 to completely disable the frame limit in the menus.
  6. 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
Keyboard Settings
Gamepad Settings
Gamepad Settings

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
The game doesn't support mouse.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Limited to remapping buttons.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Sound settings.
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
Spanish
Portuguese
"Hype: O Cavaleiro do Tempo". Retail only.

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[4]
  1. Edit %WINDIR%\UbiSoft\ubi.ini
  2. 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[5]
  1. Download installation package for Hype: The Time Quest and extract it.
  2. 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]

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[6]
  1. Create a folder named Hype somewhere on your hard drive (from now on, we'll be referring to it as <path-to-game>).
  2. From the root directory of your CD copy files: DSETUP.DLL, DSETUP16.DLL, DSETUP32.DLL to <path-to-game>.
  3. Copy folders DLL, Gamedata and InstData to <path-to-game>.
  4. Go to exe folder on your CD.
  5. Copy Gli.ini to <path-to-game>.
  6. Copy MaiD3Dvr_bleu.exe from D3D folder to <path-to-game>.
  7. Copy MaiDFXvr_bleu.exe from Glide 3x folder copy to <path-to-game>.
  8. Copy all files from UbiConfig folder to <path-to-game>.
  9. Go back to a root folder of your CD and go to LangData\<your language>\world\.
  10. Copy folder levels to <path-to-game>\Gamedata\World.
    • When asked about scaling folders, answer yes.
  11. Go to the Windows directory (%WINDIR%)
  12. In it create a folder named UbiSoft.
  13. 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.
  14. From InstData directory on your CD, copy strings.eng to %WINDIR%\UbiSoft
  15. Download installation package for Hype: The Time Quest and extract it.
  16. 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).
  17. 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).
  18. Go to a folder, where you've extracted the files from installation package.
  19. GO to a folder Compatibility and run PatchInstall.bat to add the compatibility entries to system's database.
  20. Install nGlide wrapper, if you haven't already.
  21. Finally, go to <path-to-game> and run Ubiassistant.exe and choose 3DFX configuration.
  22. Run the game using MaiDFXvr_bleu.exe.

System requirements

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, NT
Processor (CPU) 200 MHz with MMX233 MHz with MMX
System memory (RAM) 32 MB64 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 115 MB490 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6.1 compatible		Glide 3 compatible 3D Card
4 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. ↑ This version of SafeDisc 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 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. ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  2. ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  3. ↑ Rayman Pirate Community Thread
  4. ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2022-12-24
  5. ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2022-12-24
  6. ↑ Developed by Suicide machine - tested on Polish and English version of the game, on 2 different PCs with Windows 7 (64bit) and Windows 8 (64bit)