The Ball
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Developers | |
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Teotl Studios | |
Publishers | |
Tripwire Interactive | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 3 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 26, 2010 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 68 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Steam | Comes bundled with exclusive Portal 2 themed content. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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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 |
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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 |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | Open the console (~) and enter setres 3840x2160 f |
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Field of view (FOV) | Open the console (~) and enter fov 90 (replace 90 with the FOV you want). |
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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] |
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Notes
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Button prompts | ||
Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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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 |
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English | ||||
Danish | ||||
Dutch | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish | Not listed on steam. Could be that it is only available through key from Polish dvd release. (Released by CD Projekt) | |||
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] |
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VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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vorpX | G3D Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 | |
Shader Model support | 3 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | PhysX | |
Audio | Fonix TTS |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP SP2 | Vista, 7 |
Processor (CPU) | 3.0 GHz Single Core | Dual Core |
System memory (RAM) | 1 GB | 2 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 1.5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 6800 DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support |
Nvidia GeForce 8800 |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX 9.0 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 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. - ↑ 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).