Ballance

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Free demo with the first level is available.

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	No microtransactions are available in this game.

Name	Notes
Level 13 - 速度 (SuDu)	Free download from official website(web archive).

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ballance\Settings^{[Note 1]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Database.tdb^{[Note 2]}

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Only 4:3 resolutions are available, up to 1600x1200. See the community mod.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See the community mod.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Always exclusive.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Set in dgVoodoo.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Set in dgVoodoo.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Called Synch to Screen.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Set windowed mode.
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Change the value of `FullScreen` from `1` to `0`.

In-game keyboard settings.

In-game audio settings.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Use dgVoodoo^[1]

Download dgVoodoo 2.
Copy dgVoodooCpl.exe, dgVoodooCpl.conf and MS\x86\D3D8.dll from archive to <path-to-game>\Bin\ folder.
Run dgVoodooCpl.exe from <path-to-game>\Bin\ folder.
On General tab select preferred scaling mode.
On DirectX tab select preferred antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, watermark, resolution etc.
Apply and exit dgVoodoo setup.
Run the game.

Enforcing widescreen resolution in dgVoodoo DirectX settings would make image stretched.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 350 MHz	Intel Pentium III 450 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB 128 MB (2000, XP)	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	150 MB
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible

Windows NT is not supported by the game.

↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more 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).