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Magicka

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Magicka
Magicka cover
Developers
Arrowhead Game Studios
Publishers
Paradox Interactive
Engines
XNA
Release dates
Windows January 25, 2011
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control
Genres Action
Themes Fantasy
Series Magicka
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Magicka on MobyGames
Magicka on Wikipedia
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General information

Official forums
Steam Community Discussions
Magickapedia

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Publisher website
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Collection also available.
Windows
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Collection.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Collection.
Windows
Steam
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Complete Edition also available.
Windows

Version differences

The Collection / Complete edition includes the base game and all DLC.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Ninth Element Novel
Windows
Gamer Bundle
Windows
Party Robes
Windows
Frozen Lake
Windows
The Watchtower
Windows
Final Frontier
Windows
Nippon
Windows
Marshlands
Windows
Wizard's Survival Kit
Windows
Vietnam
Windows
Horror Props Item Pack
Windows
Holiday Spirit Item Pack
Windows
The Stars Are Left
Windows
Lonely Island Cruise
Windows
The Other Side of the Coin
Windows
Heirlooms Item Pack
Windows
Peculiar Gadgets Item Pack
Windows
Aspiring Musician Robes
Windows
Mega Vilian Robes
Windows
Dungeons and Daemons
Windows
Grimnir's Laboratory
Windows
Free Jolnir's Workshop Freeware
Windows
Tower of Niflheim
Windows
Dungeons and Gargoyles
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SaveData[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/42910/pfx/[Note 2]
Configuration file is binary format.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SaveData[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/42910/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

The Decal Limit value sets the decal's decay rate before disappearing. It should be set to Off for the best effect.
General settings.
General settings.
Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Position affects gameplay
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.
Keyboard rebinding.
Keyboard rebinding.
Controller rebinding. Prompted when opening game and DirectInput is detected.
Controller rebinding. Prompted when opening game and DirectInput is detected.

Controller support

Third party scripts have been created for use with controllers that provide a more "standard" mapping, and can be found here.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX
Surround sound
Subtitles
Chapter introductions are spoken normally; language spoken in-game is gibberish.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Hungarian
Official in-game localization, but is of very poor quality and none of the DLC are translated.
Hungarian
A Fan Translation is available for the whole game (base game plus DLCs), which includes misspellings and mistranslations corrections.
Italian
Polish
Official in-game localization has numerous errors and quality issues.
Polish
Fan translation, download.
Russian
Official in-game localization.
Russian
Fan translation by «R.G. ExPromt»
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Co-op
Only one keyboard usable at once, other players must use controllers.
LAN play
4 Co-op
Online play
4 Co-op

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 7331, 27016
UDP 7331, 27016
This game supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.

VR support

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

Issues unresolved

Integrated graphics card incompatibility

The game does not work with contemporary integrated graphics cards.[citation needed]

Issues fixed

Game does not start

Install .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (older systems) or enable it from the Optional Features entry in the Windows Control Panel (modern systems)[citation needed]
Install DirectX 9.0c end-user runtimes[citation needed]
Install XNA Framework 3.1[citation needed]
Refer to this archived thread[citation needed]

Exception Code: e0434f4d or e0434f4d crash

Install .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (older systems) or enable it from the Optional Features entry in the Windows Control Panel (modern systems)[citation needed]
Install XNA Framework 3.1[citation needed]
Refer to this archived thread[citation needed]

Exception code: c0000374 crash

May be related to Office 2010's implementation of Microsoft IME, and using Japanese system language.
Change system language[citation needed]
  • When experiencing this error code and Office 2010 is running, try changing the system language from Japanese to English.

Crash to desktop with SoundBlaster card

Disable SoundBlaster enhancements[citation needed]
  1. Open the Windows Control Panel and navigate to Sound.
  2. Highlight the speaker and then click properties.
  3. Go to the Sound Blaster panel.
  4. Check the Disable Sound Blaster enhancements setting.
  5. Click Apply.

Freezes in multi-core systems

Set core affinity to one CPU[citation needed]
If running an AMD dual-core CPU on Windows XP, install this CPU driver and the AMD Dual Core Optimizer.[citation needed]

Crashes while running third-party software

The game may crash if one or more of the following programs is running: FRAPS, OC Guru, EVGA Precision, MSI Afterburner, RivaTuner.
Disable these programs while running the game[citation needed]
If using Mumble, close it before the game is run and restart it when it is launched fully.[citation needed]

Screen tearing or shuttering

Force triple buffering and V-sync in the GPU control panel[citation needed]

Other information

API

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

Mods and utilities

Magicka AutoHotkey Script Generator
Resized HUD for low resolutions
Savegame Editor
Challenge Editor
Level Editor

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
AMD 3500+
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800
ATI Radeon X1900
Other Tri-button mouse
Online play requires a DSL Internet connection.


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).
  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>/42910/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (42910) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References