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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord

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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams -
Rise of the Owlverlord
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord cover
Developers
Black Forest Games
Engines
Vision
Release dates
Windows September 26, 2013
Reception
Metacritic 84
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Series Giana Sisters
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord on HowLongToBeat
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord on IGDB
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord on MobyGames
Giana Sisters
The Great Giana Sisters 1987
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams 2012
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord 2013
Giana Sisters: Dream Runners 2015
Giana Sisters 2D 2015

Key points

From a technical standpoint, the game is almost identical to Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, which means most of the fixes and features are identical.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Also sold together with the original game.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Also sold together with the original game.
Windows
Humble Store
DRM-free
Also sold together with the original game.
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use replacement BFG Logo 1080p.wmv

Apply the Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams intro skip.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Giana Sisters - Rise of the Owlverlord\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/246960/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Giana Sisters - Rise of the Owlverlord\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/246960/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Launcher video settings.
Launcher video settings.

Input

Launcher control settings.
Launcher control settings.
In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Audio

Launcher audio settings.
Launcher audio settings.
In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, ambient, music and voice
Surround sound
Subtitles
Speech is gibberish.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams and Rise of the Owlverlord (DX9).
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, read important notes in the vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues fixed

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Fullscreen mode defaults to 60 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.
Set screen refresh rate[1]
  1. Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide. Manual local installation may work better.
  2. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
  3. Open <path-to-game>\dxgi.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\GSGameExe.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you used.
    • DirectX 9 version uses <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or \GSGameExe_DX9.exe\SpecialK.ini.
  4. Change RefreshRate=-1 to RefreshRate=0 under [Render.FrameRate].

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c, 11
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.8 GHz
AMD Athlon II X2 @ 2.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800
ATI Radeon X1800 XT
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/246960/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (246960) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Keith on 2017-09-19