Anachronox/Gameplay

There are some technical issues you will need to know about when starting/installing a game.

Technical Issues
Anachronox works fine on XP. Well, as fine as it runs anywhere.

Resist the temptation to turn on EAX. It will crash your game constantly. It's disabled in 1.02.

Any Radeon or GeForce card should be able to run Anachronox in high-res (1280x960), but it will only work in full screen mode if you can set your desktop to 1280x960. If you don't have that as an option, you can run it in a window or use PowerStrip to add the mode. I find that the game crashes less when run in a window. YMMV.

When you quit, sometimes the process doesn't actually exit. You can close it yourself from the Task Manager.

After the return from Sunder, my game started crashing frequently in map transitions. I don't know what to do about this except save just before you change maps and try again if it crashes. This may be fixed in 1.02.

I suggest playing on Way Too Hard, which adjusts damage by 20%, but changing the Save At option to allow you to save anywhere so the above bug isn't as much of a problem.

Turn up the Gamma a bit.

Get used to pressing a direction key when you start moving, rather than moving the mouse first.

There are a few places in the game where you may want to cheat to work around bugs in the game. All of the cheats start by turning on debug mode with Alt-Shift-F10 and bringing down the console window with ~.

One use of the console is to get more savegame slots; if you want to make an archival save, bring down the console and type "savegame XXXX" where XXXX is a number between 1000 and 9999. To load one of these games, use "loadgame XXXX". 1.02 changes the savegame interface, so this probably isn't necessary anymore.

You can mostly use the keyboard in fights; use the number keys to select an action, and space to activate it. There are some bugs with this, though: sometimes it lets you do things that you aren't supposed to be able to do (such as use Beat weapons on the Hive Queen). Also, trying to do this to select between multiple functions of a multiple-function Elementor host will crash the game.