Tonic Trouble

Tonic Trouble

Developers
	Ubi Soft Montreal
Publishers
	Ubi Soft
Engines
	OpenSpace
Release dates
Windows	December 6, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Platform
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Fantasy, Sci-fi
Series	Tonic Trouble

Tonic Trouble
Tonic Trouble Special Edition	1998
Tonic Trouble	1999

Tonic Trouble is a singleplayer third-person platform game in the Tonic Trouble series.

It has poor compatibility with modern operating systems. See here for fixes. Character animations are not capped at 30 FPS, meanwhile the Special Edition's character animations are capped.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Game also requires running it via a shortcut created in the desktop after installation to run it properly.

Demo

Available to download from PCGamingWiki Files.

Version differences

Special Edition refers to a set of many earlier builds of this game which were released around a year before it was finally sold in retail stores. They contain many differences from this version and were only bundled on some OEM discs. Some textures in retail version are in worse quality than in any Special Edition version (64x64 vs 128x128).

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Essential improvements

Tonic Trouble Fix

Fixes many issues when running the game on modern systems, adds full controller support, and allows for modern graphical options such as windowed mode, widescreen, and anti-aliasing.

Moves save data and configuration files to %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Tonic Trouble.

Install Tonic Trouble + Tonic Trouble Fix

Download the Tonic Trouble Fix installer. Insert the game CD into a disc drive. Run the installer and wait for the game to install. Run Tonic Trouble - Configuration from the start menu or ttconfig.exe from <path-to-game> to configure the game. Run Tonic Trouble from the start menu or TonicTrouble.exe from <path-to-game> to run the game. Notes This installation method is recommended for ease of use.

Install Tonic Trouble Fix on top of an existing Tonic Trouble installation

Download the Tonic Trouble Fix ZIP file. Extract all files to <path-to-game>. Copy the videos and GAMEDATA folders from the CD to <path-to-game>. Press "Skip" if errors occur while copying tt4.cnt. Move the files in the <path-to-game>\GAMEDATA\WORLD\SOUND\<language> folder to the <path-to-game>\GAMEDATA\WORLD\SOUND folder. Run ttconfig.exe from <path-to-game> to configure the game. Run TonicTrouble.exe from <path-to-game> to run the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\GAMEDATA\OPTIONS %WINDIR%\UBISOFT\UBI.INI

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\GAMEDATA\SaveGame

Video

Video Options.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use Tonic Trouble Fix.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Use Tonic Trouble Fix.
4K Ultra HD		Use Tonic Trouble Fix or a DirectX wrapper such as dgVoodoo2.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Use Tonic Trouble Fix.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use Tonic Trouble Fix.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Use Tonic Trouble Fix.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Use Tonic Trouble Fix.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Use Tonic Trouble Fix.
60 FPS		Unlike Tonic Trouble Special Edition, the retail version's character animations are not capped at 30 FPS.
120+ FPS		Frame rate is capped at roughly 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

In-game general control settings.

In-game advanced control settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		All 10 keyboard keys listed in the controls menu can be remapped.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Use Tonic Trouble Fix or Rayman 2 Input Fix (originally meant for Rayman 2: The Great Escape, but also compatible with Tonic Trouble) on modern systems.
Full controller support		Use Tonic Trouble Fix.
Controller remapping		Only Jump, Side Step, Action, Shoot, Look, and Camera Angle are remappable.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		Use Tonic Trouble Fix for correct bindings.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger support

DirectInput-compatible controllers

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)
Additional button prompts

F1 will show game totals, F9 will toggle the HUD, and F4 will show the console. Typing and entering "version" in the console will show the current game version. To save manually, just type SAVEGAME in the console.

Xidi

Not needed with Tonic Trouble Fix.

Adds full DirectInput controller support for modern XInput-based controllers.

Restores haptic feedback.

Installing Xidi

Works with Xidi library in DInput form, but requires dropping Xidi's dinput.dll into <path-to-game>. Ensure the system is running Windows 10 or 11. Xidi is built to target Windows 10 or 11 and does not support older versions of Windows. Ensure the Visual C++ Runtime for Visual Studio 2022 is installed. Xidi is linked against this runtime and will not work without it. If running a 64-bit operating system, install both the x86 and the x64 versions of this runtime, otherwise install just the x86 version. Download the latest release of Xidi from here. Install one of the forms of Xidi into <path-to-game>. Optionally supply configuration settings to Xidi: config. Run the game.

Audio

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound, Music, and Voice.
Surround sound		Using DirectSound3D and A3D 2.0. Both are disabled by default, but can be re-enabled manually. See Restore 3D sound.
Subtitles		Most speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Restore 3D sound

Restore DirectSound 3D and A3D 2.0

Download and install the official 3D sound patch from PCGamingWiki Files. Install Creative Alchemy (for non-Creative cards, see here). Add and enable the game in Creative Alchemy. Make sure to copy and paste dsound.dll generated by Creative Alchemy to <path-to-game>\DLL\ as well, as this will be required later. Copy this executable to <path-to-game>\DLL\ (if the French version is installed, skip this step as this is already included with that version) and WAVa1BVR.dll if it's missing. Install A3D Live (After installing, go to %WINDIR% and delete a3dsplhs.exe to prevent the A3D splash screen from popping up). Open SetupSound3D.exe and say yes when prompted to enable 3D sound. Configure desired settings and select 'Save and Quit'. If the game crashes during startup using DSOAL, set Disable A3D, and it will use DirectSound3D instead. Notes The 3D sound patch may cause issues such as distorted pitch, missing dialogue, and crashes after some time of playing using A3D.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish				Castilian.
Russian				Fan translation.

Retail version's languages are individually separated by regional releases.

FMVs have no options for subtitles. In-game dialogue always has subtitles.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Modifications

Higher Quality Official Textures

Replaces low quality textures with higher quality variants found in the other releases of the game {mostly Special Editions).

Minor Texture Fixes

This mod is meant as an addendum to the Higher Quality Official Textures mod.

Fixes many oversights left by the original artists.

Cleans up the compression artifacts.

Further replaces textures with the high quality Special Editions variants.

AI Upscaled Texture Pack

An upscale of every single texture using Fatality MK2 model with few textures being remade from scratch.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz Cyrix PR 233 MHz AMD K6-2 266 Mhz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB		64 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	250 MB
Video card (GPU)	2 MB of VRAM DirectX 6 compatible		8 MB of VRAM
Other	4x CD-ROM drive		8x CD-ROM drive