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Beasts and Bumpkins

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Beasts and Bumpkins
Beasts and Bumpkins cover
Developers
Worldweaver Ltd
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Fantasy
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Beasts and Bumpkins is a singleplayer bird's-eye view and isometric strategy game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Essential improvements

Installing on modern systems

Run the setup launcher on the CD in compatibility mode for Windows 95.[1]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savegam0.sav[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF thread.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Polish
Fan - [1]
Czech
Fan - 1

Issues fixed

Gameplay stutters or hitches

Install DDrawCompat in game folder

CD audio tracks do not play or too loud

Method 1: Fix CD audio with ogg-winmm wrapper
  1. Install ogg-winmm in game folder.
  2. Rip tracks from CD or mounted disc image.
  3. Convert tracks to ogg, rename and place in music folder (see ogg-winmm instructions).
  4. Lower CDDAVolume in winmm.ini to your preference.
Method 2: Fix CD audio with DxWnd
  1. Install DxWnd and add a new profile.
  2. Choose the path of the beasts.exe file.
  3. Deselect "Run in Window" to play in fullscreen.
  4. Insert the disc to the disc drive or mount the image file.
  5. Select the "CDAudio" tab and choose the correct CDA drive.
  6. Choose "Play from CD".
Alternatively, choose "RIP CD audio", run the game once and then switch to "Use audio files".

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 40 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX DirectX 3 compatible


Notes

  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).

References

  1. ↑ Beasts & bumpkins (maptile.mfb error) - last accessed on 2021-12-21