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Gruntz

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Gruntz
Gruntz cover
Developers
Monolith Productions
Publishers
North America Monolith Productions
Europe Microïds
Russia Russobit-M
Engines
Windows Animation Package 32
Release dates
Windows March 25, 1999[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Puzzle, Strategy
Art styles Pixel art
Gruntz on HowLongToBeat
Gruntz on IGDB
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Gruntz on Wikipedia

Availability

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

Monetization

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

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions Game does not contain any microtransactions.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.01 fixes several bugs.

Game data

In-game options.
In-game options.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Monolith Productions\Gruntz\1.0\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\*.sav[Note 2]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions are available.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
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)
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)
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

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 effectz, voicez, music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Fan - 1
Slovak
Fan - 1
Polish
Game received a local full-translated version.

Network

Multiplayer types

Connection types

Ports

No port information; you can edit this page to add it.
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Smacker Video Technology

System requirements

Windows[2]
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Pentium 166 MHZ
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
Other 4x CD-ROM drive


Notes

  1. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  2. 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