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Revision as of 17:19, 20 October 2020

Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Overture cover
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 March 30, 2007
Linux May 25, 2007
macOS (OS X) January 10, 2008
Penumbra: Overture on MobyGames
Penumbra: Overture on Wikipedia
Penumbra
Penumbra: Overture 2007
Penumbra: Black Plague 2008

Key points

Source code was made available in 2010.[1]

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
DRM-free
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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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
The Penumbra Collection includes Penumbra: Overture, Black Plague, and the Requiem expansion.

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.
There is no on-screen indication that the quick save was successful.

Enable simple swing

Edit settings.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open settings.cfg with a text editor.
  3. On line 1 find SimpleWeaponSwing="false" and SimpleSwingInOptions="false", and change false to true for both entries.
  4. Save the changes.

Notes

This makes the forward attack activate with a single click, and the swing attack activate by holding the left mouse button.
A toggle is also added under Options >> Game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Penumbra Overture\Episode1\
macOS (OS X)
Linux ~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Overture/
This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Penumbra Overture\Episode1\
macOS (OS X)
Linux ~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Overture/

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

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Widescreen resolution

Edit settings.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open settings.cfg with a text editor.
  3. On line 8 change Screen Width="XXXX" Height="XXXX" to the desired screen width and height respectively.
  4. Save the changes.

Notes

Menus and HUD are stretched.[2]

Ultra-widescreen

Edit EXE Properties
  1. Set your resolution using these instructions
  2. Right-click Penumbra Overture\redist\Penumbra.exe, select Properties
  3. Check Disable Fullscreen Optimizations
  4. Click Change high DPI settings, check Use this Setting and Override High DPI Scaling.
  5. Apply and launch via Steam.

Windowed

Edit settings.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open settings.cfg with a text editor.
  3. On line 8 change FullScreen="true" to FullScreen="false"
  4. Save the changes.

Input settings

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Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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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 two translations, by Snowball Studios (1C-SoftClub) and Noviy Disk.
Spanish
Fan translation, download.
Turkish
Fan translation, download.

VR support

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 Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
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