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Penguin Kelvin

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Penguin Kelvin
Penguin Kelvin cover
Developers
Tate Interactive
Publishers
Play Publishing
Release dates
Windows March 20, 2003
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Antarctica
Penguin Kelvin on MobyGames

Penguin Kelvin is a singleplayer third-person platform game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 125 FPS.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Released only in Hungary.[1]
Dutch
German
Polish
Russian

Issues fixed

Graphical issues on modern systems

Use DxWnd[2]
  1. Download DxWnd and extract it.
  2. Launch DxWnd.
  3. Set the path to <path-to-game>\pingwinek.exe.
  4. Choose Edit, and Add.
  5. Type in the name for it (e.g. Penguin Kelvin).
  6. Under position specify the X, Y position of a window for the game and Width (W) and Height (H) of the window.
  7. Go to DirectX tab.
  8. Under Emulation, choose the primary buffer renderer.
  9. Go to Direct3D tab.
  10. Under Direct3D tweaks, check Clean ZBUFFER @0.0 fix.
  11. Click OK to save the settings.
  12. Minimize DxWnd and launch the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 350 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM


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. Penguin Kelvin (found English translation of Pingwinek Kelvin; 2003) - The Lost Media Wiki - last accessed on 2020-10-17
    "Due to Play Publishing's nature of mostly publishing small games with limited budgets, often bundled with small magazines, the game was never released outside of Europe with the only confirmed English release being in Hungary, nor was the game ever re-released due to Tate Multimedia's distain for the title, wishing to forget about it."
  2. Verified by User:Parseus on 2020-10-17