Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Alien Breed: Impact

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Alien Breed: Impact
Alien Breed: Impact cover
Developers
Team17
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows June 3, 2010
Reception
Metacritic 64
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Multiplayer
Series Alien Breed
Alien Breed: Impact on HowLongToBeat
Alien Breed: Impact on IGDB
Alien Breed: Impact on MobyGames
Alien Breed: Impact on Wikipedia
Alien Breed
Alien Breed 1993
Alien Breed: Tower Assault 1994
Alien Breed: Impact 2010
Alien Breed 2: Assault 2010
Alien Breed 3: Descent 2010

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for the Alien Breed Trilogy
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Developer website
Icon overlay.png
Windows
Amazon.com
Icon overlay.png
Windows
GamersGate
Icon overlay.png
Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
Icon overlay.png
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
Icon overlay.png
Windows
Humble Store
Icon overlay.png
Alien Breed Trilogy.
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows

Version differences

The GOG.com version does not include multiplayer[1] or leaderboards.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\UnrealEngine3\AlienBreedEp1Game\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/22610/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\UnrealEngine3\AlienBreedEp1Game\SaveData\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/22610/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Display settings.
Display settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Use FOV Tool.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Use FOV Tool.
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
120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 62 FPS. See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

High frame rate

Change MaxSmoothedFrameRate[citation needed]
  1. Go to configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the AlienBreedEp1Engine.ini file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Using the Find function (Ctrl+F), search for MaxSmoothedFrameRate. There will be exactly one entry.
  4. Change its value to desired frame rate, eg. MaxSmoothedFrameRate=120.
  5. Save the file and launch the game.
Disable SmoothedFrameRate[citation needed]
  1. Go to configuration file(s) location
  2. Open the AlienBreedEp1Engine.ini file with Notepad or other text editor.
  3. Using the Find function (Ctrl+F), search for bSmoothedFrameRate. There will be exactly one entry.
  4. Change it to bSmoothedFrameRate=False.
  5. Save the file and launch the game.

Input

General settings.
General settings.

Audio

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

Surround sound

Enable hardware OpenAL[2]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open AlienBreedEp1Engine.ini.
  3. Look for [ALAudio.ALAudioDevice] class
  4. Make sure DeviceName= has nothing assigned
  5. Increase MaxChannels= to the number of supported ones of your audio device (maximum is 128)
  6. Set UseEffectsProcessing=True
  7. Save you changes.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation by Tribo Gamer, Download.
English
In the AlienBreedEp1Engine.ini and DefaultEngine.ini files in the config folder, change the XYZ in 'Language=XYZ' to INT to change the game language to English.
French
In the AlienBreedEp1Engine.in and DefaultEngine.ini files in the config folder, change the XYZ in 'Language=XYZ' to FRA to change the game language to French.
German
In the AlienBreedEp1Engine.ini and DefaultEngine.ini files in the config folder, change the XYZ in 'Language=XYZ' to DEU to change the game language to German.
Hungarian
Fan translation, #1, #2.
Italian
In the AlienBreedEp1Engine.ini and DefaultEngine.ini files in the config folder, change the XYZ in 'Language=XYZ' to ITA to change the game language to Italian.
Japanese
In the AlienBreedEp1Engine.ini and DefaultEngine.ini files in the config folder, change the XYZ in 'Language=XYZ' to JPN to change the game language to Japanese.
Russian
Fan translation by «ENPY Studio»
Spanish
In the AlienBreedEp1Engine.ini and DefaultEngine.ini files in the config folder, change the XYZ in 'Language=XYZ' to ESN to change the game language to Spanish.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
Use Nucleus Co-op.
LAN play
Online play
2 Co-op

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
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz Single Core
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800
ATI Radeon X700
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/22610/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (22610) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. GOG.com - Alien Breed: Impact - last accessed on 2022-07-04
    "Please note: Online co-op mode is unavailable."
  2. Enable hardware OpenAL sound (including surround) - Steam Users' Forums (retrieved)