Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon

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Mysterious Journey
Schizm: Mysterious Journey	2001
Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon	2003
Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III	2021

Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon is a singleplayer first-person adventure game in the Mysterious Journey series.

It was also released as Schizm II: Chameleon.

General information

Official game site

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Amazon.com

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\display.cfg^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\Profiles\^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\Player^{[Note 1]}

Video

In-game settings

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor		See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)	See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed	See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Set `"Anisotropic" "1"` in `<path-to-game>/autoexec.cfg` (1 to 16).
Anti-aliasing (AA)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See Vsync broken on Windows 10.
60 FPS
120+ FPS	Uncapped frame rate causes minor issues.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Modify external display settings^[1]

Open <path-to-game>\display.cfg.
Change screenwidth and screenheight to the desired resolution.
Open <path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg and add the line pvmodelaspect (refers to the player viewmodel's aspect ratio) and change it to:
- 1.6 for 16:10
- 1.6666 for 15:9
- 1.7777 for 16:9
- 3.5555 for 32:9
- 5.3333 for 48:9

Notes

Non-4:3 resolutions are stretched. To fix it, see Field of view (FOV).

Many menu elements will be out of place or hidden in very high or wide resolutions.

Field of view (FOV)

Change Field of View^[2]

Open <path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg.
Add the following three lines: FovX for horizontal FOV, FovY for vertical FOV, and change the line pvmodelfov for the player's viewmodel FOV, and change the values to:

Aspect ratio	FovX	FovY	pvmodelfov
4:3	70	55	65
16:10	80	55	65
15:9	82	55	65
16:9	86	55	65
32:9	124	55	65
48:9	141	55	65

Here is an example for 16:9:

"FovX" "86"
"FovY" "55"
"pvmodelfov" "65"

Notes

Cutscenes FOV isn't fixed.

Windowed

Start `Lithtech.exe` with `-windowtitle "Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon" -rez Game.rez -rez Game2.rez -rez Lang.rez -rez Worlds.rez +windowed 1` parameters^[2]

Set in autoexec.cfg^[2]
Open `<path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg`. Change the line `"windowed" "0"` to `"windowed" "1"`.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound (slider), Music (on/off).
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German
Polish
Russian

Issues fixed

Uncontrollable mouse movement

Mouse moves in wavelike pattern when attempting y-axis movement.

Decrease mouse polling rate to 125 Hz^[2]

Vsync broken on Windows 10

Use dgVoodoo 2^[2]

Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper^[2]
Download `d3d8.dll` from here. Place it in `<path-to-game>`.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1	^[3]

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	98SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 300 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	220 MB
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	64 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)		EAX 2.0-compatible soundcard
Other	12x CD-ROM drive

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 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

↑ wsgf.org - last accessed on 26 May 2023
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-02
↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-08
According to System Informer, the game loads d3d8.dll. dgVoodoo2's traces point to Direct3D 8 (e.g: "Direct3DDevice8").

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 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).

[2] wsgf.org - last accessed on 26 May 2023

[AlphaYellow-3] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-02

[4] Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-08
According to System Informer, the game loads d3d8.dll. dgVoodoo2's traces point to Direct3D 8 (e.g: "Direct3DDevice8").

[Note 1]

[1]

[2]

[3]

Developers

	Detalion
Publishers
	The Adventure Company
Europe	DreamCatcher Interactive
Russia	1C Company
Engines
	Lithtech Jupiter
Release dates
Windows	November 24, 2003
Reception
Metacritic	62
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Continuous turn-based
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Point and select
Genres	Adventure
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	Mysterious Journey