Avencast: Rise of the Mage

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 7 DRM. Russian copies use StarForce 5 DRM.
Amazon.com
Epic Games Store
GOG.com
Humble Store
Steam
Publisher website (unavailable)
Amazon.com (unavailable)
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)

Disable intro in game.cfg^{[citation needed]}
Go into `cfg` in the installation folder. Edit `game.cfg`. Go to the `VideosAtStart` line. Add `;` to the start of the `VideosAtStart` line. Save your changes and close the file.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\cfg\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46410/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

game.cfg contains general settings.

controls.cfg contains control settings.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\save\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46410/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Avencast Options (Options.exe).

In-game video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Set in launcher.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Works using Borderless Gaming.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Set in launcher (on/off only).
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Set in launcher.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		200 FPS limit by default. See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Change FPS limit in the config file

Setting maxFPS to 0 for no limit may prevent save game loading.

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Supports two keys per function.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Listed as Mouse speed.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Spells and attacks can be cancelled with Space ␣.

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effect, Music, Speech and Ambient noises.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Video subtitles are set in launcher; gameplay is always subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German				Retail and Steam only; download for GOG.com release.
Polish				Retail only Details
Russian				Unofficial localization by «NeoGame»

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D User created profile, see vorpx forum.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c
Shader Model support	3

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz AMD Athlon 2200+
System memory (RAM)	512 MB (1 GB Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	4.4 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 ATI Radeon 9700 DirectX 9.0c compatible

↑ ^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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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>/46410/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (46410) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.