The Temple of Elemental Evil

The Temple of Elemental Evil is a D&D RPG from Troika Games and Atari. It is a re-creation of the classic tabletop RPG module with the same name, updated with D&D 3.5 rules. You lead a party of adventurers to the world from an ancient evil force embodied by a mysterious temple.
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Grades:-

Widescreen: B
Multi-Monitor: Unsupported

Tested Version:

demo

Screen change:

Hor+

Widescreen Method:

.ini edit

Hud Stretch:

None

Multi-monitor Method:

None

Multi-monitor HUD:

Rendered cut-scenes:

FMV cut-scenes:

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Game information

Release Date:

Wednesday, 1 January, 2003

Game status:

Released

Setting:

Fantasy, D&D

Genre:

RPG

Play styles:

Single player

Developer:

Troika, Atari

Developer feedback:

Links:

⋅ ⋅ ⋅ Metacritic ⋅ Moby Games ⋅ Wikipedia ⋅

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Forum Thread: The Temple of Elemental Evil: Detailed report

Solutions & Anomalies

Solution

Edit the file toee.cfg in the game's directory. Find these lines:
video_width=xxxx
video_height=xxx
Change them to set your resolution.

The game is Hor+

The game automatically uses the correct aspect ratio for your resolution. However, the FOV in either directions is proportional to the resolution in either direction. That is, 1280x800 is hor + compared to 1024x768 only because the horizontal resolution is larger. The 16:9 resolution is vert - in comparision.

The HUD scales correctly.

Cutscenes are FMV. But the game automatically switches your resolution to 800x600 before showing the FMV, so the widescreen handling is irrelevant.

Eyefinity / Surround Specific Solution

3D Solution

Single player anomalies

The native max resolution is 1280x1024 so anything above this and things get wiggy. There is flickering and double images that display above the game native max. These occur on smaller maps and happen based on mouse position and if a cut-scene is moving the screen. They do not show on screenshots but you can see the lack of data for displaying. You can still play with these issues.

When the resolution is high enough characters go invisible. You cannot play like this. Confirmed invisible is 1920x1080 and 1920x1200.

Multiplayer anomalies

3D anomalies

Comparison Screenshots

4:3 Screenshot
16:10 Screenshot
16:9 Screenshot
Eyefinity / Surround Screenshot

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In game screenshots

4:3 Screenshot

16:10 Screenshot

16:9 Screenshot

Eyefinity / Surround Screenshot

In-game cut-scene screenshots

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FMV cut-scene screenshots

4:3 cut-scene

Menu screenshots

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Additional In-Game Shots

Tested Resolutions

16:10 Resolutions

1280x800

1440x900

1680x1050

15:9 Resolutions

1280x768

16:9 Resolutions

1280x720

Eyefinity / Surround Resolutions

Tested Multi-mon Types

Tested Multi-mon Layouts

Unsupported Resolutions

1920x1080

1920x1200

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Submitted by The_cranky_hermit on 13 August, 2006 - 21:48
Updated by skipclarke on 10 March, 2012 - 08:55

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