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The Ball

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The Ball
The Ball cover
Developers
Teotl Studios
Publishers
Tripwire Interactive
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows October 26, 2010
Reception
Metacritic 68
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
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General information

Official forums
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Comes bundled with exclusive Portal 2 themed content.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Ball\UDKGame\Config\
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Ball\UDKGame\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/35460/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\UDKGame\Config\[Note 2]
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Ball\UDKGame\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/35460/pfx/[Note 1]

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

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Open the console (~) and enter setres 3840x2160 f
Field of view (FOV)
Open the console (~) and enter fov 90 (replace 90 with the FOV you want).
Windowed
Can also be toggled by pressing F11.
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
120+ FPS
See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

High frame rate

Change frame rate smoothing[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open UDKEngine.ini.
  3. Search and change bSmoothFrameRate to FALSE or raise MaxSmoothedFrameRate value.
  4. Save file.

Notes

For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
7.0
Subtitles
On by default.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Compatible with X3DAudio HRTF for binaural HRTF mixing.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Swedish

Issues fixed

Settings and in-game progress not being saved

Another solution is to run the game exe file directly
Fixing the game shortcut[citation needed]
  1. Right click on the desktop shortcut for the game and select "Properties".
  2. Remove the -nohomedir console parameter from the shortcut target.
  3. Run the game.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio Fonix TTS

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP2
Processor (CPU) 3.0 GHz Single Core
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/35460/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (35460) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. 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