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Revision as of 05:33, 8 April 2018

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Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Black Plague cover
Developers
Frictional Games
Engines
HPL Engine 1
Release dates
Windows February 12, 2008
macOS (OS X) May 12, 2008
Linux May 12, 2008
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Penumbra: Black Plague guide on StrategyWiki
Penumbra: Black Plague on Wikipedia
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Penumbra
Penumbra: Overture 2007
Penumbra: Black Plague 2008

General information

Changelog
Official website
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SecuROM v7 DRM disc check
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Penumbra Collection
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
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 Penumbra Collection
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store
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 Penumbra Collection
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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 Gold Edition. Includes the Requiem expansion.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
The Penumbra Collection includes Penumbra: Overture, Black Plague, and the Requiem expansion.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Requiem
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

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

Enable quick save

Edit settings.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open settings.cfg with a text editor.
  3. On line 1 change AllowQuickSave="false" to AllowQuickSave="true"
  4. 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)
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)
Linux ~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Black Plague/
~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Requiem/

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.
Advanced video settings.
Advanced video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Edit settings.cfg[1]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open settings.cfg with a text editor.
  3. On line 7 change Screen Width="XXXX" Height="XXXX" to the desired screen width and height respectively.
  4. Save the changes.

Notes

Menus and HUD are stretched.

Windowed

Mouse is captured by hovering pointer over the window.
Edit settings.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open settings.cfg with a text editor.
  3. On line 7 change FullScreen="true" to FullScreen="false"
  4. Save the changes.

High frame rate

Edit settings.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open settings.cfg with a text editor.
  3. On line 4 change LimitFPS="true" to LimitFPS="false"
  4. Save the changes.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
European retail version only.
Spanish
Turkish
Russian
Only on Russian retail copies of 1C-SoftClub (of this game and full trilogy).

VR support

Headsets State Notes
SteamVR
Use Penumbra: Overture VR Mod.
Oculus VR (LibOVR)
Use Penumbra: Overture VR Mod.
Windows Mixed Reality
Use Penumbra: Overture VR Mod.
OSVR
Devices
Tracked motion controllers
Traditional controller
Keyboard/Mouse
Play area
Seated
Standing
Room-scale

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