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Tonic Trouble Special Edition

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Tonic Trouble Special Edition
Tonic Trouble Special Edition cover
Developers
Ubisoft Montreal
Ubisoft Montpellier
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
Ubisoft OpenSpace
Release dates
Windows 1998
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Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 Known as "Special Edition". Usually available as abandonware in various game versions (8.5.1, 8.5.2, 8.6.2, 8.7.0). Added with Compaq computers. It has MaiD3Dvr.exe instead of Tonic Trouble.exe binary. No need of modern system binary patch (only dgVoodoo or Wine). Incompatible with widescreen patch.
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Playing on modern computers

Use dgVoodoo 2.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows C:\Windows\Ubisoft\ubi.ini

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\GAMEDATA\SaveGame[Note 1]

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen resolutions
  1. Go to C:\Windows\Ubi\.
  2. Open ubi.ini.
  3. Set to any widescreen resolution and run the game from the shortcut (it will force the game to run at native desktop resolution).

Notes

This will decrease the horizontal FOV which cuts out part of the HUD and may affect playability of the game.
To enhance texture quality, open ubi.ini and set TexturesMem=Vram+ and for particles: ParticuleRate=High. You can also set Buffering=2 to enable Triple Buffering.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

F9 can disable HUD, F12 will show console (SE), F1 for Glide. Command "version" will show your current game version.

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Italian language support was removed from Special Edition versions 8.7.0 and onward.
Spanish
Castilian.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5 [1]
Glide 2 Only available in the earliest Special Edition beta version (8.1.0), currently has only been found in a warez scene release.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) 233 MHz Intel Pentium II processor
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 270 MB
Video card (GPU) AGP based 3D video card or better
4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 5 compatible
After installation, you need 70 MB of free space to run the game.

Notes

  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