Atlantis: The Lost Tales

Atlantis: The Lost Tales

Developers
	Cryo Interactive
Publishers
	DreamCatcher Interactive
Engines
	Spherical-VR
	Omni3D
Release dates
DOS	September 30, 1997
Windows	September 30, 1997
macOS (OS X)	June 18, 2013
Taxonomy
Series	Atlantis

Atlantis
Atlantis: The Lost Tales	1997
Atlantis II: Beyond Atlantis	1999
Atlantis III: The New World	2001
Atlantis Evolution	2004
The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy	2006

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Disc check.
GOG.com		Unofficial Update "Extended Cut" (2019)
ZOOM Platform

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches are available to fix various issues.

Unofficial Patch for GOG.com version (2019)

This new unofficial version fix almost every bugs listed here and works fine on Windows 10.

Atlantis The Extended's Cut (March 2019)
Install the lastest version of Atlantis The Lost Tales from GOG Store Download Atlantis The Extended Cut Updater and unpack it in the installation folder Open AtlantisExtendedCutForGOG.exe and press "Update to Extended Cut" Start the game

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS
Windows
macOS (OS X)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\CRYO\Atlantis\GameDirectory determines the game data folder on Windows.

You'll need to reach the next checkpoint to have your settings saved, since options are stored together with savegames.

The Windows version makes a C:\pitch.bin file; its purpose is unclear.

<path-to-game>\players.atl stores player profiles.

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS
Windows	<path-to-game>\*.gam
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Options menu.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		640x480 only
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		D3DWindower and DxWnd work. Windows 95/98 compatibility modes could impede windowed mode
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Exceeding 30 FPS speeds up characters behavior and acting.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Mouse acceleration		No option. Follows Windows default behavior.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Regardless of your game localization, menu items will have the alignment used in the English one
Mouse Y-axis inversion		It's called "Omni-3D mode"
Controller
Controller support		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Audio

Sound options.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, music, effects, voices.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese				Retail only: Atlantis: A Lenda Perdida.
Spanish
Swedish

Issues unresolved

Game won't close properly if you use Alt+F4 and will you require to manually kill the process

All game versions but the original unpatched CD one come with graphics glitches like characters without pupils, beard or with fused apparel

Issues fixed

GOG.com version is laggy

Edit atlantis.exe[citation needed]
Open atlantis.exe with a hex editor such as HxD Find E9 D2 FD 06 and replace it with 2D 00 05 00 Save Notes If the game runs too fast now, see below

Game is too fast

Cap the frame rate

Download DxWnd and unpack it in the installation folder Open DxWnd.exe and after selecting "Edit", press "Add" Insert the game path in the corresponding field Go to the "Timing" tab and tick the "Limit" checkbox Put your desired rendering time (delay) in the box on the right (recommended 33) Make sure "Set AERO compatible mode" is disabled in the "DirectX" tab Press OK. Run the game through DxWnd Notes Rendering delay is in millisecond. To convert FPS to ms, just follow this formula ms = 1000/FPS

Crash on CD change

Download following save game
Go to the installation folder and take note of the number of your save files(those with .gam extension) Download the savegame with the number following this value Place it in the installation folder

Garbled graphics split in columns

Install Voodoo3/Banshee patch

Game crashing

Fix crashes with Mesa3D[citation needed]
Download Mesa3D Extract opengl32.dll into <path-to-game> Start the game

Restore DirectSound effects

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

DOS

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 133 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.73 GB
Video card (GPU)	SVGA and MPEG-2 support

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6.8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM