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The Watchmaker

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The Watchmaker
The Watchmaker cover
Developers
Trecision
Publishers
Got Game Entertainment
DreamCatcher Interactive
Digital THQ Nordic
Release dates
Windows October 23, 2001

General information

Official developer site (archived)
Official publisher site (archived)

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\Wm##.sav[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\Saves\WmSav##.tga[Note 1]
.sav files store the saved game state.
.tga files store thumbnails visible in the loading menu.

Video settings

External video settings.
External video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
Polish

Issues fixed

Victoria refuses to throw a padlock at the window around 8:55pm

Insert a CD from a game to your disk drive. If the issue still persist, try other disk drives[1][2]

Issues unresolved

Can't find a watchman after 4:00pm

  • It may be impossible to find watchman if too many actions from later part of the game were performed. Loading a previous save file may be required.[2]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD 3.33

System requirements

Windows[3]
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 266 MMX
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible
Sound (audio device)

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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