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POD: Planet of Death
POD: Planet of Death cover
Developers
Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows February 28, 1997
POD: Planet of Death on MobyGames
POD: Planet of Death on Wikipedia

Key points

Titled "POD" in North America

General information

pod PhReAk - Comprehensive fan resource (requires Flash)
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Includes the Back to Hell expansion.
Windows
Ubisoft Store
Icon overlay.png
Gold Edition. Included with Ubisoft+.
Windows

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Back to Hell
Windows

Essential improvements

Playing POD Gold on Windows 10 (2018), a guide on how to fix POD Gold issues (GOG/CD version) on Windows 10, and how to add new cars/tracks.

Patches

Fixes a lot of compatibility issues on modern operating systems.
Apply Podhacks[1]
  1. Download PodHacks.zip (password is PodHacks).
  2. Extract PodHacks executable into <path-to-game>.
  3. Run the executable

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Normally the game only allows for resolutions up to 800x600.

Rename a DLL[citation needed]
  1. Install nGlide.
  2. Delete or rename glide2x.dll found in <path-to-game>.

Notes

Causes sky box issues on some tracks.
Recommended to first apply PodHacks.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Dutch
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Versus
LAN play
8
Online play
8

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5
Glide
native support
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
System requirements are for the GOG.com release.

Notes

  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