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Magrunner: Dark Pulse

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Magrunner: Dark Pulse
Magrunner: Dark Pulse cover
Developers
Frogwares
Publishers
Focus Home Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows June 20, 2013
Reception
Metacritic 70
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Genres Puzzle
Themes Lovecraftian
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Magrunner: Dark Pulse is a first-person puzzle game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
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Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions None

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\YoshiGame\Movies\
  2. Delete or rename UE3.vid and Frog.vid.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Magrunner\YoshiGame\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/209630/pfx/[Note 1]
Key bindings from game options and some other settings are saved in a binary autosave file instead of .ini configuration files.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Magrunner\YoshiGame\Magrunner_auto_save.sav\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/209630/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Slider in menu, values from 70 to 110. See Field of view (FOV) for tweaks.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Options off, medium and high.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped to 60 FPS by default; see High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Field of view (FOV)

Game contains field of view slider in menu. Users can set field of view from 70° to 110°.
This setting is saved in binary autosave file which prevent from easily tweaking this value.
FOV fine tweaking[citation needed]
  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\My Games\Magrunner\YoshiGame\Config\
  2. Open YoshiInput.ini with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Locate section [Engine.PlayerInput] and add this line:
    Bindings=(Name="XXX",Command="FOV YYY")
    where XXX is name of your desired key and YYY is your desired field of view value.

Notes

This will break ingame zoom command so you need to create your own. See Zoom fix below.
You need to hit your FOV key every time you start the game or game reverts FOV to its set value.
Alternatively you can just use tweaked zoom key instead of dedicated FOV key.
For reverting FOV to default value hit original zoom key or create binding with YoshiResetCameraFov command.
Zoom fix[citation needed]
  1. Launch the game, go to keyboard settings and bind zoom command to key which are you not going to use so that you clear your desired zoom key.
  2. Go to %USERPROFILE%\My Games\Magrunner\YoshiGame\Config\
  3. Open YoshiInput.ini with Notepad or other text editor.
  4. Locate the [Engine.PlayerInput] section.
  5. Look for your desired zoom key and change the line to this:
    Bindings=(Name="XXX",Command="FOV 40 | Onrelease FOV YYY")
    where XXX is name of your desired key and YYY is your desired field of view value.

Notes

Alternatively you can change 40 to lower value and achieve greater zoom magnification.

High frame rate

Game features frame rate limiter that limits max frame rate to 62 FPS.
Disable frame rate limiter[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration files location.
  2. Open YoshiEngine.ini with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Change bSmoothFrameRate=TRUE to FALSE.

Note that it's change game physics and at some puzzles you need capped fps. At high frame rates gravity have stronger value, at low frame rate gravity is low.

Input

Controls menu.
Controls menu.

Audio

Audio menu.
Audio menu.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sliders for Effects, Music and Dialog.
Surround sound
7.1 surround sound supported.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz dual core
System memory (RAM) 2048 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800
ATI Radeon HD 4800
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/209630/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (209630) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Mars icecream on 2018