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Frank Herbert's Dune

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Frank Herbert's Dune
Frank Herbert's Dune cover
Developers
Widescreen Games[1]
Publishers
Europe Cryo Interactive[1]
North America DreamCatcher Interactive[1][2]
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
Windows November 25, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action
Themes Sci-fi
Series Dune
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Frank Herbert's Dune is a singleplayer third-person action game in the Dune series.

The game is a flawed PlayStation 2 port, with major rendering glitches on modern systems.

General information

Official Website (retrieved)
Dune Wiki - The Duniverse
Dune2K.com - A major Dune fansite with an active community

Availability

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

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\configpc.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Dune_*.sav[Note 1]

Video

External Configuration Tool
External Configuration Tool

An external Configuration Tool can be accessed with <path-to-game>\VideoCfg.exe or through a Start Menu shortcut

Input

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
Controller types

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and Sound Effects/Speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
[3]
Brazilian Portuguese
Released as "Duna" (Infogrames do Brasil).
Russian
1C Localization.
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, read importent hints in profile introdution. Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Issues fixed

Vsync (Enabled by default) not working

Use dgVoodoo 2
  1. Download dgvoodoo 2.
  2. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe, as well as D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll from the MS\x86 subfolder to <path-to-game>.

"Renderer initialisation failed" error

Set the ZBuffer option to 16 Bits.

Texture format patch (fix color glitch)

[4]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 400 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 540 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible


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