Tarzan (1999)

Tarzan (1999)

Developers
	Eurocom
Publishers
	Disney Interactive Studios
Release dates
Windows	June 1999

Disney's Tarzan
Subseries of Disney
Tarzan	1999
Disney's Hot Shots: Tarzan Jungle Tumble	1999
Disney Hot Shots: Disney's Terk & Tantor Power Lunch	1999

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\tarzan.cfg

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\tarzan.cfg

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Use dgVoodoo 2.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Press F10 to enter "software window" mode.
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		Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Joystick settings.

Keyboard settings. To access this menu, press F2 and select "keyboard".

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Press F2 to enter the in-game options menu and select "keyboard".
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound FX and CD Music
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		EAX.
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6	Press F6 to use Direct 3D rendering.
Software renderer		Press F8 to use low res mode (320x240), F9 for high res mode (640x480), and F10 for software window mode.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Issues fixed

Unable to install the game from the disc

The installer on the disc, does not work on modern windows OS due to it designed for older OS.

Change the installer compatibility mode to an older version of windows
Right Click the installer.exe file and set properties. In the compatibility tab, set it to run in compatibility mode for Windows XP service Pack 2. The installer should now work and allow you to install the game.

Audio pops during cutscenes on newer Windows OS

The game's cutscenes rely on an old direct sound dll file for proper sound playback from the CD. When installed on newer OS like Windows 10, this game will use the dll file of the latest version which causes the issue.

Use an old version of Direct Sound
Download and extract dsound.dll for Tarzan. Copy dsound.dll to <path-to-game>.

Lower resolution and lack of support for higher resolution monitors

The game being quite old, was never properly designed to be scaled for higher resolution monitors of today. Some elements of it scale up quite poorly and the overall presentation looks quite bad.

Use dgvoVoodoo and Glide renderer in game

Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2 and extract the archive. Open the 3Dfx\x86 folder and copy Glide.dll, Glide2x.dll and Glide3x.dll files. Paste the files into the game root folder or where the game executable file is. Run the included dgVoodooCpl program and configure the resolution depending on your monitor resolution in the Glide section. If you don't want watermarks, then you can disable that here as well. Run the tarzan.exe file and after you reach the main menu, press F2. Head to the Graphics section and make sure that the Display and Start Display mode is set to Glide. the bottom right corner of the game should indicate which display is being used after you start up the game. Now the game should scale properly to your monitor resolution and look much better.

No Music plays in the game

The game uses CDDA audio to stream in music as you play the game with the CD inserted and modern windows do not support this properly.

There are two methods to fix this

Method 1 Install K Lite Codec pack, and insert the disc. Now run the game and check if the music is playing from the main menu itself Method 2 If the first method does not work for you, then get the full version of the game dump with .bin and .cue files online or try dumping it yourself. A good reference guide for dumping this game is to follow how to dump a ps1 game in .bin and .cue formats. After dumping, you have to mount the .cue file as a virtual drive with CDDA audio capacity. Only Daemon tools supports this CDDA audio mounting. Install the free version of Daemon tools. Mount the .cue file with Daemon tools and then run the game. Check if the music is playing from the main menu itself

Issues Unresolved

EAX 3d audio is not available in newer version of windows after Vista

There's a fix that enables 3d sound, but it breaks the audio in cutscenes completely.

Use Creative ALchemy on any sound card other than Creative ones

Make a backup of the dsound.dll file that you used for fixing the cutscenes before doing this process below. Follow the instruction in this webpage. After setting up the game exe file in the ALchemy menu, run the tarzan.exe file and after you reach the main menu, press F2. Head to the audio section and you will now be able to enable EAX audio. the bottom right corner of the game should indicate if EAX audio is being used after you startup the game.

Music in the ingame levels do not repeat after playing once

There's currently no way to fix this and the issue seems to occur only on modern OS like Win 10

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz	Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM)	24 MB	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 MB
Video card (GPU)	2 MB of VRAM	4 MB of VRAM
Other	Quad-speed (4x) CD-ROM drive