Bookworm Adventures

General information

Official game site (archived)

Availability

This game is no longer available digitally

Bookworm Adventures Deluxe is the full version of the game

System	Location
Windows
Steam	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Steam\WinBAD\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3470/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

System	Location
Windows	%PROGRAMDATA%\PopCap Games\WinBAD\users^{[Note 2]}
Steam	%PROGRAMDATA%\Steam\WinBAD\users
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3470/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

System	Native	Notes
Origin
Steam Cloud

In-game options menu.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Only available resolution is 800x600.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Only available resolution is 800x600. Cannot be resized.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Capped at 100 FPS.^[1]

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

There are two ways of fixing the problem:

Disable hardware acceleration if fullscreen is on.
Play the game in a window. Hardware acceleration works fine while the game is windowed.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	7
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	BASS

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	700 MHz	1 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	50 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible

↑ ^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>/3470/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (3470) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
↑ 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).