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Scorched Planet

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Scorched Planet
Scorched Planet cover
Developers
Criterion Games
Publishers
Virgin Interactive
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
DOS October 31, 1996
Windows October 31, 1996
Scorched Planet on MobyGames
Scorched Planet on Wikipedia

Availability

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

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\SPLANET.INI
Windows <path-to-game>\SPLANET.INI[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SP0*.SAV[Note 1]

Video

Input

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
8 Versus
IPX-Network required
Online play
For DOSBox use DOSBox IPX/modem emulation.
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D
Matrox Simple Interface API executable available for 3D acceleration.[1]
Glide
Software renderer
DOS video modes VGA, SVGA Rendition Speedy3D executable available for 3D acceleration.[2]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Smacker Video Technology

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) DOS, Windows 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 60
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 65 MB


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

  1. VOGONS - 3D Accelerated Games List - last accessed on 2020-01-11
  2. VOGONS - 3D Accelerated Games List - last accessed on 2020-01-11