Requirements

Unlike many other modern games, the Age of Fear has been designed for low-end computers. No powerful graphical card is necessary (but it helps!) and game should work on any Java supported system.

Age of Fear requires at least Java version 1.6, which should be available for any modern system. We suggest using Oracle's Java Runtime Edition as it is the most mature Java Virtual Machine today. It can be downloaded from here.

The game was implemented to work on laptop (1GHz Celeron + 1.5GB memory is enough!) and profiled extensively, thus you shall have no problem running it on low-spec hardware. Most of processing power is required by game's AI module, thus better CPU will provide smoother play (multiple cores are also supported!).

There exist three separate installation packages for Windows (msi package), Linux (deb package) and Mac OS X. The license key is fully interchangeable between those versions. If you ever decide to change operating system (we suggest Ubuntu!), please contact us and we will happily provide an alternative installer and help you to migrate your configuration.

Windows compatibility

Age of Fear should be running smoothly on all Windows versions with proper Java Virtual Machine installed. The game has been tested on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7 and no critical errors were reported.

Linux compatibility

The extremely large number of Linux distributions makes impossible to test our game on every available configuration. Instead, Age of Fear has been tested on the most common distribution today - Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) with sun-java6-jre 6.22-0ubuntu1~10.04 package installed.

Due to multi-platform nature of Java, our game should run smoothly on almost every Linux system. However, before ordering our product, please download and try our demo. If you experience any issues, please visit our forum or mail our support box ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).

Note for Ubuntu users: default java virtual machine is OpenJDK. OpenJDK is not completely bug-free and game performance could be limited. Please switch to Oracle (previously Sun Microsystems) java virtual machine (sun-java6-jre package) for best experience.

Mac OS X compatibility

Age of Fear requires Java 1.6 to installed on Apple computer. If you are unsure which version of Java is installed on your machine, please download our demo and run it. Our demo always checks for compatible Java version upon start.

Our forum also has very informative thread on this subject (here).