Difference between revisions of "Penumbra: Black Plague"

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Penumbra
Penumbra: Overture	2007
Penumbra: Black Plague	2008

General information

Official website

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM v7 DRM disc check
GOG.com		Penumbra Collection
Humble Store		Penumbra Collection
Mac App Store		Penumbra Collection
Steam		Gold Edition. Includes the Requiem expansion.

The Penumbra Collection includes Penumbra: Overture, Black Plague, and the Requiem expansion.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Requiem

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Edit settings.cfg^{[citation needed]}
Go to the configuration file location. Open `settings.cfg` with a text editor. On line 1 change `ShowPreMenu="true"` to `ShowPreMenu="false"` Save the changes.

Enable quick save

Edit settings.cfg^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file location.
Open settings.cfg with a text editor.
On line 1 change AllowQuickSave="false" to AllowQuickSave="true"
Save the changes.

Notes

Press F4 to save and F5 to load.

Penumbra: Black Plague has no on-screen indication that the quick save was successful.

Penumbra: Requiem has quick save enabled by default, plus allows remapping those keys in-game and has an indication of a successful save.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Penumbra\Black Plague\ %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Penumbra\Requiem\
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Preferences/Frictional Games/Penumbra/Black Plague/ ~/Library/Preferences/Frictional Games/Penumbra/Requiem/
Linux	~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Black Plague/ ~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Requiem/

This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Penumbra\Black Plague\ %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Penumbra\Requiem\
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Preferences/Frictional Games/Penumbra/Black Plague/ ~/Library/Preferences/Frictional Games/Penumbra/Requiem/
Linux	~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Black Plague/ ~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Requiem/

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 settings

Video settings.

Advanced video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Edit settings.cfg^[1]

Go to the configuration file location.
Open settings.cfg with a text editor.
On line 7 change Screen Width="XXXX" Height="XXXX" to the desired screen width and height respectively.
Save the changes.

Notes

Menus and HUD are stretched.

Windowed

Mouse is captured by hovering pointer over the window.

Edit settings.cfg^{[citation needed]}
Go to the configuration file location. Open `settings.cfg` with a text editor. On line 7 change `FullScreen="true"` to `FullScreen="false"` Save the changes.

All gameplay elements are locked to 60 FPS. This includes physics, puzzles, player movement, input and most animations. This limit can be removed, but will only affect particles and some animations.^[2]

Remove FPS cap
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open `settings.cfg` with a text editor. Change `LimitFPS="true"` to `"false"`.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech				Retail version only.
Italian				European retail version only.
Hungarian				Retail version only, available to download.
Polish				Retail version only.
Russian				Only on Russian retail copies of 1C-SoftClub (of this game and full trilogy).
Spanish				Fan translation, Black Plague and Requiem DLC
Turkish				Fan translation, Black Plague and Requiem DLC

VR support

Devices	State	Notes
Novint Falcon

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL	1.4

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Newton Game Dynamics
Audio	OpenAL

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon 8500 Nvidia GeForce 3

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.4
Processor (CPU)	2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1024 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon 8500 Nvidia GeForce 3

Linux
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Kernel 2.6
Processor (CPU)	1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon 8500 Nvidia GeForce 3

References

↑ Penumbra | WSGF
↑ Verified by User:Litbeep on 2020-11-3
Email from Peter Wester (engine programmer): "All the gameplay is run at 60 fps. This means physics, puzzles, player movement, mouse/kb/gamepad input and some animations. The only things that can be unlocked are particles, some animations and texture animations. This is the same for all other HPL-based games!"

[1] Penumbra | WSGF

[2] Verified by User:Litbeep on 2020-11-3
Email from Peter Wester (engine programmer): "All the gameplay is run at 60 fps. This means physics, puzzles, player movement, mouse/kb/gamepad input and some animations. The only things that can be unlocked are particles, some animations and texture animations. This is the same for all other HPL-based games!"

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@@ Line 132: / Line 132: @@
 |60 fps                     = true
 |60 fps notes               =
-|120 fps                    = false
+|120 fps                    = hackable
-|120 fps notes              = Game engine is hard-coded to run at 60 FPS.
+|120 fps notes              = See [[#High frame rate|High frame rate]].
 |hdr                        = unknown
 |hdr notes                  =
@@ Line 159: / Line 159: @@
 # On line 7 change <code>FullScreen="true"</code> to <code>FullScreen="false"</code>
 # Save the changes.
+}}
+===[[Glossary:Frame rate (FPS)|High frame rate]]===
+{{ii}} All gameplay elements are locked to 60 FPS. This includes physics, puzzles, player movement, input and most animations. This limit can be removed, but will only affect particles and some animations.<ref>{{Refcheck|user=Litbeep|date=2020-11-3|comment=Email from Peter Wester (engine programmer): "All the gameplay is run at 60 fps. This means physics, puzzles, player movement, mouse/kb/gamepad input and some animations. The only things that can be unlocked are particles, some animations and texture animations. This is the same for all other HPL-based games!"}}</ref>
+{{Fixbox|description=Remove FPS cap|fix=
+# Go to the [[#Game data|configuration file(s) location]].
+# Open <code>settings.cfg</code> with a text editor.
+# Change <code>LimitFPS="true"</code> to <code> "false"</code>.
 }}

Developers

	Frictional Games
macOS (OS X)	Edward Rudd
Linux	Edward Rudd
Publishers
Eastern Europe	CD Projekt
Europe	Paradox Interactive
Engines
	HPL Engine 1
Release dates
Windows	February 11, 2008
macOS (OS X)	May 12, 2008
Linux	May 12, 2008