Bookworm

Bookworm

Developers
	PopCap Games
Engines
	PopCap Games Framework
Release dates
Windows	February 25, 2003
macOS (OS X)	January 11, 2006

Bookworm

Bookworm	2003
Bookworm Adventures	2006
Bookworm Adventures: Volume 2	2009

General information

Official game site

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Bookworm Deluxe is the full version of the game

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3370/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%PROGRAMDATA%\Steam\Bookworm\players
macOS (OS X)
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3370/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Origin
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game options menu.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Only available resolution is 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Only available resolution is 640x480. Cannot be resized.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Capped at 100 FPS.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed

Low FPS

There are two ways of fixing the problem:

• Disable hardware acceleration if fullscreen is on.
• Play the game in a window. Hardware acceleration works fine while the game is windowed.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	7
OpenGL		OS X only.
Software renderer
64-bit executable

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	BASS

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	700 MHz	1 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.5.8	10.6.3
Processor (CPU)	G4	G5 or Intel Core Duo
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 MB