Alice: Madness Returns
HDR ReShade & Windows 7/8/10
Crash-Fix
By Tore Andersen
Alice: Madness Returns, developed by Spicy Horse and published by Electronic Arts in 2011. A sequels to American McGee's Alice from 2000, following Alice on her return to "Wonderland". The game has a very distinct graphical style, designed by Thomas James McGee, best known for Quake and DooM 2. This small guide will show how to fix some compatibility issues with newer computer systems, and add a custom ReShade for slightly better image quality.
Windows 7/8/10 crash-fix
1: Set compatibility mode
Open the Alice game-folder, and open "\Alice2\Binaries\Win32\". Right-click "AliceMadnessReturns.exe",
and click the Compatibility tab. Set compatibility to Windows XP SP3.
2: Physics Fix
If the game still crashes at random even after setting the compatibility mode as
shown above, the following will fix the issue completely.
In-game, open the main menu and go to Configuration. Select Video, and set Physics
to Low.
The game will now work perfectly on any version of Windows.
HDR ReShade (LINK)
Download and unpack into the Alice game-folder
*Alternative download mirror: (DOWNLOAD)
That's it, Alice: Madness Returns is ready to launch
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Game Info
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Alice: Madness Returns is a 3rd-person action-adventure platform game
from Spicy Horse, published in 2011 by Electronic Arts. Madness Returns is a sequel
to American McGee's Alice from 2000. The game follows Alice Liddell, a girl suffering from
unusual trauma,
caused by a family tragedy. Alice lives in an orphanage for mentally traumatized
orphans, and is under supervision of Dr. Angus Bumby. To get rid of the trauma, she once again falls into Wonderland, where a new evil
force has corrupted it.
Alice believes that she is responsible
for a fire that consumed her home and family, so she escapes into a twisted version
of Wonderland.
A couple of years earlier, Alice was held at Rutledge Asylum for treatment, and
she was actually able to
conquer her doubts and fears. She was then released from the ward, and placed in
the orphanage instead. This is where Madness Returns
takes place. The year is 1875, the place is Victorian London. Alice still
suffers from hallucinations and visions of Wonderland, but they are kept in
check by doctor Angus.
One day, as Alice is walking outside of the orphanage, one of her hallucinations,
a white cat, takes her to Wonderland once again. She arrives in a beautiful and
magical forest with strange plants and flowers in vivid colors. Everything seems
peaceful, but as moves through the landscape, the beauty becomes
corrupted and twisted. Alice must fight several weird beings and she encounters
all kinds of environments, both beautiful and scary.