Earthworm Jim 3D

Earthworm Jim
Earthworm Jim: Special Edition	1995
Earthworm Jim	1996
Earthworm Jim 2	1996
Earthworm Jim 3D	2000

Earthworm Jim 3D is a singleplayer third-person platform game in the Earthworm Jim series.

The game offers high resolution support natively, and runs fine in modern Windows.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com
Steam		Lacks all in-game music.^[2] Bundled with Earthworm Jim and Earthworm Jim 2.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/41600/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\GameSave.SAV^{[Note 2]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/41600/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Native 4:3 ratio is stretched to fill widescreen resolutions. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Native 4:3 ratio is stretched to fill ultrawide resolutions. See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
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)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		No FPS cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Use the Earthworm Jim 3D Trainer

Download the Earthworm Jim 3D Trainer here.
Edit the aRatio value inside Earthworm Trainer.exe.config to set the desired aspect ratio. Default is 16:9 (1.77).

Notes

Automatically applies the aspect ratio patch if the game is running.

Tested with the GOG version. Steam version support is unknown.

Vert-. The FOV decreases the higher the aspect ratio.

Input

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Remap may be partial on some controllers.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		Left stick is auto-assigned for movement; right stick, trigger buttons, and d-pad cannot be mapped.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

General settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech				Fan - 1
German
French
Spanish				Retail version only.
Italian
Polish				Available in GOG.com version.

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		Game currently crashing after 1 minute with dgVoodoo 2.

Issues fixed

The game does not start on certain GPUs

In certain graphics cards, such as the Intel Iris Xe Graphics, the game displays graphical glitches like low lighting in the graphical interface or inability to render 3D elements. While there’s no solution for this issue with integrated GPUs, there is a workaround.

Disable Nvidia Optimus^[3]

Use DgVoodoo 2 wrapper^[4]

Download and extract DgVoodoo 2 wrapper.
From MS folder copy files D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll and place them in a folder with a game (where EarthwormJim3D.exe file is).
Start dgVoodooSetup.exe and configure General Settings.
Go to DirectX tab and make sure Disable and passthru to real DirectX is unchecked.
Choose dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card in Videocard field.
Click Apply and OK.
Start the game.

The text fonts are unreadable

In certain GPUs, the text fonts have graphical glitches and are not readable.

Use DgVoodoo 2 wrapper^{[citation needed]}

Update drivers for gpu^[5]

The game has no sound

Set audio sample rate to 48000 Hz^[6]

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	100 MB
Video card (GPU)	3D Accelerator DirectX 7.0 compatible
Other	8x CD-ROM drive

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (41600) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ 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

↑ The Games Of 2000 (retrieved) - last accessed on 2024-07-28
"Game: Earthworm Jim 3D
Released: 05/24/00"
↑ Works fine but :: Earthworm Jim 3D General Discussions - last accessed on 2023-10-08
↑ Verified by User:Epicgames4 on 2024-01-16
I was able to run the game without problem with this, Checked on Windows 11 Insider Preview 22635.3061 (ni_release).
↑ Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - PCGamingWiki. Instructions taken from the previous page.
↑ Verified by User:Epicgames4 on 2024-02-07
Verified on Windows 11 Insider Preview 22635.3139 (ni_release) in RTX 3070 Laptop (Bypassing Nvidia Optimus)
↑ Verified by User:Epicgames4 on 2024-05-09

[Proton_path_note-3] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (41600) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[4] The app ID (41600) may differ in some cases.

[5] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[6] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[gamedir-4] 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).

[1] The Games Of 2000 (retrieved) - last accessed on 2024-07-28
"Game: Earthworm Jim 3D
Released: 05/24/00"

[steam_music_discussion-2] Works fine but :: Earthworm Jim 3D General Discussions - last accessed on 2023-10-08

[5] Verified by User:Epicgames4 on 2024-01-16
I was able to run the game without problem with this, Checked on Windows 11 Insider Preview 22635.3061 (ni_release).

[6] Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - PCGamingWiki. Instructions taken from the previous page.

[7] Verified by User:Epicgames4 on 2024-02-07
Verified on Windows 11 Insider Preview 22635.3139 (ni_release) in RTX 3070 Laptop (Bypassing Nvidia Optimus)

[8] Verified by User:Epicgames4 on 2024-05-09

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Developers

	VIS Entertainment
Publishers
	Interplay Entertainment
Release dates
Windows	May 24, 2000^[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Art styles	Stylized
Genres	Platform
Series	Earthworm Jim