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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius cover
Developers
AWE Games
Publishers
THQ
Engines
Open Media Toolkit
Release dates
Windows November 6, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Adventure
Art styles Stylized
Series Jimmy Neutron
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Jimmy Neutron
Subseries of Nickelodeon
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius 2001
Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron 2002

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is a singleplayer third-person adventure game in the Jimmy Neutron series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Simple disc check.
Windows

Essential improvements

Windows 10 Compatibility Fix

It makes the game compatible with modern systems.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\JimmyGameX.tsk[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
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.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and Sound FX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 7 Software renderer mode.[1]
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 200 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible
Other 8x 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

  1. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-07
    According to System Informer, the game loads ddraw.dll. dgVoodoo2's traces point to DirectDraw 7 (e.g: "DirectDrawSurface7::Flip" and "DirectDraw7::EnumDisplayModes").