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Tien

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Tien
Tien cover
Developers
Season Game Studio
Publishers
Kingsoft
Engines
Lithtech Jupiter
Release dates
Windows December 19, 2002
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Hack and slash, RPG
Sports Martial arts
Art styles Realistic
Themes China, Fantasy
Tien on MobyGames

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
CD key
Released on 2 CDs. DRM-free after installation.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\JBin\addaction.cfg[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\JBin\autoexec.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\[Note 1]

Video

Video Settings.
Video Settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Menus become too cropped and unusable.
Ultra-widescreen
Menus become too cropped and unusable.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Change the lines "ChaseCameraFovX" "75.000000" (gameplay FOV) and "MovieCameraFovX" "54.000000" (cutscene FOV) in <path-to-game>/JBin/autoexec.cfg.
Windowed
Set "windowed" "1" in <path-to-game>/JBin/autoexec.cfg.
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)
Turned on by default. To disable it, change the line "VSyncOnFlip" "1" to "VSyncOnFlip" "0" in <path-to-game>/JBin/autoexec.cfg. For Windows 7 and newer, a DirectX wrapper is needed to make Vsync work, like d3d8to9 or dgVoodoo 2.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped at 60 FPS by default. To increase the cap, change the line "MaxFps" "60" in <path-to-game>/JBin/autoexec.cfg. Might cause some issues.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Run the game in widescreen resolutions[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>/JBin/autoexec.cfg.
  2. Look for the lines "screenwidth" and "screenheight".
  3. Change them to the desired value.

Notes

Vert- by default, increase the FOV to compensate.

Input

Control Settings.
Control Settings.

Audio

Audio Settings.
Audio Settings.

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8 [2]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8.1-compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-12-27
  2. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-08
    According to System Informer, the game loads d3d8.dll. dgVoodoo2's traces point to Direct3D 8 (e.g: "Direct3DDevice8").