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Necrodome

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Necrodome
Necrodome cover
Developers
Raven Software
Publishers
Retail Strategic Simulations Inc.
Retail Mindscape
Digital SNEG
Engines
Vampire
Release dates
Windows November 1, 1996
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Vehicle combat, TPS
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General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Unofficial Patches

Mouse Fix Patch

This patch fixes the game's mouse issues, among a plethora of other things.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\NECRO.CFG[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2464680/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\*.SAV[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2464680/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Force borderless fullscreen and widescreen resolutions[1]
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Edit, then Add.
  3. Set the path to <path-to-game>\NECRO95.exe.
  4. Set the preferred coordinates, size, and monitor if needed.
  5. Specify the DirectX version if it's not automatically detected.
  6. Click OK, then File and Save.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
2 Co-op, Versus
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Issues fixed

Applying compatibility settings (Windows only)

Enable the following compatibility settings for the NECRO95.EXE file: Compatibility mode (Windows 95)

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker Video Technology

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 60 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 23 MB


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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Verified by User:Zach Fett on 2023-02-06