Brother Bear

Brother Bear

Developers
	Amaze Entertainment
	KnowWonder
Publishers
	Disney Interactive
Poland	Buena Vista Games
Russia	Noviy Disk
Engines
	Unreal Engine 1
Release dates
Windows	November 1, 2003
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Adventure, Platform
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	North America
Series	Disney Classics

Brother Bear is a singleplayer third-person adventure and platform game in the Disney Classics series.

Game lacks an FPS limiter or Vsync, which causes large amount of bugs with frame rates higher than 60 FPS.

General information

Disney Wikia entry

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		NA release
Retail		SecuROM 4 DRM - EU release

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

The path may vary since it appears to be related with the variable "DOCUMENTS_AND_SETTINGS_FOLDER=" in INSTALL.INI used by the installer. The root folder (in this case "Brother Bear") may also vary, since it uses the localized name of the game (e.g.: in the Brazilian retail, the root folder would be "Irmão Urso"). If the variable has no value, it will use the ProgramData folder as below.

System	Location
Windows	%PROGRAMDATA%\Disney Interactive\Brother Bear\System\

Save game data location

The above info also applies here.

System	Location
Windows	%PROGRAMDATA%\Disney Interactive\Brother Bear\System\Save\

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor		See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		Default 90°; see Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		See 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)		Off by default. To turn it on, see Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS		Cutscenes become broken in higher framerates (issues like overlapping dialogue, dialogue cutting earlier, etc).
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Widescreen resolution

Set in Game.ini
Open %PROGRAMDATA%\Disney Interactive\Brother Bear\System\Game.ini. Go to the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] section. Set FullscreenViewportX and FullscreenViewportY to the desired resolution. Notes Vert-, FOV should be increased to achieve a Hor+ image.

Field of view (FOV)

Set in User.ini
Open %PROGRAMDATA%\Disney Interactive\Brother Bear\System\User.ini. Change DesiredFOV=90 and DefaultFOV=90 to the desired value. Notes To maintain identical vertical FOV to the 4:3 FOV at 16:9 resolutions, use 106. At 21:9 resolutions, use 121.

Windowed

Set in Game.ini
Open %PROGRAMDATA%\Disney Interactive\Brother Bear\System\Game.ini. Find the section [WinDrv.WindowsClient]. In that section, find the entry WindowedViewportX= and set its value to your desired window width. In that section, find the entry WindowedViewportY= and set its value to your desired window height. Set StartupFullscreen= to False to start the game in windowed mode.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity		Set MouseSensitivity= in %PROGRAMDATA%\Disney Interactive\Brother Bear\System\User.ini.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Off by default. Set bInvertMouse=False to True in %PROGRAMDATA%\Disney Interactive\Brother Bear\System\User.ini.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Set in %PROGRAMDATA%\Disney Interactive\Brother Bear\System\User.ini.
Controller sensitivity		Set in %PROGRAMDATA%\Disney Interactive\Brother Bear\System\User.ini.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Set in %PROGRAMDATA%\Disney Interactive\Brother Bear\System\User.ini.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)

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

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and Sound Effects sliders.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Polish				Mój Brat Niedźwiedź.
Brazilian Portuguese				Disney Irmão Urso.
Russian				Братец медвежонок.
Spanish				Hermano Oso.
Swedish

Issues fixed

Game's Vsync doesn't work on Windows 8/8.1/10/11

Use dgVoodoo2

Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper
Download d3d8.dll from here. Place it in <path-to-game>\System.

Poor performance on Windows 8/8.1/10/11

Use dgVoodoo2

Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper
Download d3d8.dll from here. Place it in <path-to-game>\System.

Unable to start game/Buttons not rendering with launcher on Linux/Wine

Use BrotherBear-NeoLauncher
Download BB.exe from here. Place it in <path-to-game>\System. Open "Default.ini" inside the "System" folder. Find the line: "AppUserDir=Disney Interactive\Brother Bear\System". Replace it with: "AppUserDir=..\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Brother Bear", where USERNAME is the name of your windows account. Run game using BB.exe.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8
DirectDraw	2	Software renderer mode.
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98		ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 2 350 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	250 MB
Video card (GPU)	16-bit color depth 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible
Sound (audio device)	16-bit color DirectX 9-compatible
Other	8x CD-ROM Drive