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Dino Island

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Dino Island
Dino Island cover
Developers
Monte Cristo
Publishers
Strategy First
Release dates
Windows May 22, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 42
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building, Sandbox, Simulation, Strategy
Art styles Cartoon
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Availability

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

Monetization

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

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\Config[Note 1]

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Main Menu is always shown in 800 x 600, but ingame widescreen resolutions can be used.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Direct3D 8 games' Vsync is not functional on modern Windows. Use a wrapper.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Not possible ingame, but changeable in KeyMapper.ini
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Separate controls for Music and Sound Effects
Surround sound
Subtitles
Game contains no spoken dialogue.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Pentium 300
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 400 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D Hardware Accelerated video card with 16MB RAM
16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device) SoundBlaster or 100% compatible sound card


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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