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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs cover
Developers
Eurocom
Publishers
Activision
Engines
EngineX
Release dates
Windows June 26, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 67
Taxonomy
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Platform
Themes Prehistoric
Series Ice Age
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs on HowLongToBeat
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs on IGDB
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs on MobyGames
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs on Wikipedia
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Key points

No graphics settings other than resolution.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM v7.40.0005 DRM
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Activision\IceAge3

Video

Video settings
Video settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
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)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Can only choose between 3 preset layouts.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Xbox 360 controller works well.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Only works if a controller was plugged in before the game was started. If a controller is unplugged ingame, The game will ask to reconnect it, or leave to the menu.
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Works in menu, only works with controller ingame.

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects and Music
Surround sound
5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Russian

VR support

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

Issues fixed

White screen at launch

Use compatibility mode
  1. Go to the game directory.
  2. Right-click "iceage3.exe".
  3. Go to "Compatibility".
  4. Check "Disable fullscreen optimizations".

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT
ATI Radeon X850
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Other 6x CD-ROM drive


References