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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) cover
Developers
ImaginEngine
Publishers
Global Star Software
Release dates
Windows July 15, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 26
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Free-roaming camera
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Stylized
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) is a singleplayer free-roaming camera adventure game. It is not the same game as the home console version.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 7 DRM
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\charlie.ini[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\jet.ini[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\language.ini[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\users.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

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)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 20 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Widescreen resolution

Hex edit Charlie.exe[1]
  1. Open Charlie.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Press Ctrl+F and set datatype to Hex-values.
  3. Search for C4 04 00 00 20 03 00 00 C7 86 C8 04 00 00 58 02 00 00 8B C6, C7 86 9C 00 00 00 20 03 00 00 C7 86 A0 00 00 00 58 02 00 00 8B C6 5F 5E 5B 64 89 and 20 03 00 00 58 02 00 00 10 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 4A 75 6E 20 31 36 20 32 30 30 35 20.
  4. In each pattern, highlight 20 03 00 00 and replace the value in the UInt32 row with the desired width (it's on the Data inspector tab in the right side).
  5. In each pattern, highlight 58 02 00 00 and repeat the same as the previous step, but this time for height.
  6. Save the file.

Notes

Hor+ image.

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
Sound effects and music volume sliders available.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 2 450 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 200 MB
Video card (GPU) Hardware T&L compatible
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Other 8x CD-ROM drive


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2025-05-01