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Hydrophobia: Prophecy

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Hydrophobia: Prophecy
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Developers
Dark Energy Digital
Engines
HydroEngine
Release dates
Windows May 9, 2011
Reception
Metacritic 64
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Adventure
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Hydrophobia: Prophecy is a singleplayer third-person action and adventure game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows

Monetization

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

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions None

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\92000\remote\
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DarkEnergy\Hydrophobia
<path-to-game>\ded.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/92000/pfx/[Note 2]
ded.ini contains shadow, reflection and refraction maps size which can be increased to improve rendering quality (this has a significant performance impact).

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\92000\remote\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/92000/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Game's launcher.
Game's launcher.
In-game Display options menu.
In-game Display options menu.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Run in windowed mode and use Borderless Gaming.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
2x by default, higher quality can be forced using the GPU control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
MLAA natively.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Windowed

Launch parameters[1]
  1. Find game in your Steam Library and open properties.
  2. Select Set Launch Options....
  3. Input -darknrg -win.
  4. Press OK.
  5. Launch the game.
Registry editing[2]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Change value of FULLSCREEN from 01 00 00 00 to 00 00 00 00.

Input

Controls settings in the Game options menu.
Controls settings in the Game options menu.
Controls binding menu.
Controls binding menu.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, sound effects and voice.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Under in-game Display settings.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation: download.
Spanish
Russian
Retail only. Patch for digital release: download
Polish
Retail only.

Issues unresolved

Game refuses to launch after launcher

There have been many cases where game simply refuses to launch after starting game from launcher. For some users simply reselecting settings[3] and making sure first video- and audio device has been selected if they appear multiple times.[4] For some users nothing works and resolution selection isn't available.[5] Manually adding setting to registery doesn't work as launcher uses checksum and resets settings with every launch.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo
AMD Athlon X2
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT
ATI Radeon HD 3650
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible


Notes

  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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/92000/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (92000) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References