Atomaders

Atomaders

Developers
	KraiSoft Entertainment
Release dates
Windows	November 2002
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Top-down view
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Arcade
Vehicles	Space flight
Art styles	Pre-rendered graphics
Themes	Space
Series	Atomaders

Atomaders
Atomaders	2002
Atomaders 2	2008

Atomaders is a singleplayer top-down view arcade game in the Atomaders series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Developer website

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\KraiSoft\Atomaders

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Players.cdf

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Most likely cannot be forced to go 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)		Most likely follows the driver settings for V-Sync.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Most likely running under 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

The remap controls section of Atomaders including the sound settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		All actions (Left and right direction, fire and extra weapon fire) can be remapped.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		The game allows the use of a mouse for ship control.
Mouse input in menus		The game has its own custom cursor.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		The help section of the game says the ship can be controlled with a joystick
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound and Music can be set at different volume levels.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues unresolved

Leda Prime 2 Coralos doesn't show the CRAB cyborg picture

A minor bug, which was most likely forgotten considering how old the game is and yet this bug still exists

Issues fixed

Game refuses to boot up on modern hardware

The game will refuse to open when executed on modern Windows OSes, mainly 8, 8.1, and 10. The older version of Atomaders, specifically the GameHouse version (v1.11) does not require this fix to boot up.

Enable the following compatibility settings for the Atomaders.exe file: Compatibility mode (98/Me).

Game refuses to run properly on modern hardware, black screen bug after doing Alt+Tab

The game will lag both in-game and within the menus when opened on modern Windows OSes (mainly 8 and above), the game will also not show anything after doing Alt+Tab ↹ or pressing the Windows button then going back to the game

Use dgVoodoo or dxwrapper
A ddraw.dll wrapper from any of the 2 mentioned wrapper programs can be used to resolve the issue, dgVoodoo is preferrable due to not requiring any configuration, albeit the game will display a watermark on the bottom section of the screen, but this is also an indication to prove that the wrapper works.

SendBugReport.exe refuses to make a log file

Manual Log.txt creation
To resolve this minor issue, open Notepad with administrator privileges, save the blank text file as Log.txt into the folder location of Atomaders then afterwards, run the SendBugReport.exe as administrator, it should be able to generate logs now

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

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

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	25 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible