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==Availability==
 
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Latest revision as of 15:03, 29 September 2023

This page is for the 2002 game. For the remaster of the game and its sequel, see Santa Claus in Trouble (HD).

Santa Claus in Trouble
Santa Claus in Trouble cover
Developers
Joymania Development
Publishers
Cdv Software Entertainment
Release dates
Windows December 2, 2002
Taxonomy
Monetization Freeware
Series Santa Claus in Trouble
Santa Claus in Trouble
Santa Claus in Trouble 2002
Santa Claus in Trouble ... Again! 2004
Santa Claus in Trouble (HD) 2020

Key points

Released as freeware.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
DRM-free
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\config.txt[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\score.dat[Note 1]

Video

Settings
Settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Open config.txt and set Resolution 800 600 to your desired one
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Open config.txt and set Fullscreen 1 to 0
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

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and SFX
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel or AMD 450 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 16 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible


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