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Revision as of 08:01, 9 October 2021
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
General information
- Ritualistic - A fan site for all Ritual Entertainment games.
- Heavy Metal Magazine Fan Page - A fan site for the Heavy Metal comics and related products (18+ only, NSFW).
Availability
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- Game is not available digitally.
- Owners of the Loki Software Linux port of the game should consider using the installer from LIfLG, if you wish to run the game on a newer system. It is currently in beta.
Demo
- Demo is available (mirror1/mirror2/mirror3).
Essential improvements
Patches
- Install the latest patch(1.02), available here or here.
Level of detail
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Model detail
setting is available in the video options menu, but it can be overridden to force the game to render highest quality models all the time.
Instructions[3]
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- Run the game at least once, so the configuration file gets created.
- Go to
<path-to-game>\fakk folder.
- Open
config.cfg with a text editor.
- Add lines
seta r_lodbias "-2" and seta r_lodcurveerror "10000" in the Cvars section.
- Save your changes and run the game.
Notes
- You may have to run the game in administrator mode for the config file to be created and the new settings to be applied.
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Original game textures upscaled with neural networks. Download on ModDB
Modifications
- Unofficial expansion pack by former Ritual Entertainment level designer. Contains three large, high quality complex maps with custom music. Unfortunately the rest of the planned twelve maps are not available.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
Save game data location
System |
Location |
Windows |
<path-to-game>\fakk\save\[Note 2] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
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macOS (OS X) |
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Linux |
~/.loki/fakk2/fakk/save/ |
Video
In-game general video/audio settings.
In-game advanced video/audio settings.
- Custom resolution can be set in the configuration files, but also requires a modified
gamex86.dll
file for Hor+ FOV.
Instructions[4]
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- See the WSGF entry and download the
Heavy_Metal_Fakk2_widescreen.7z archive.
- Open the archive, select and extract the folder with resolution you want.
- Copy the files in the extracted folder to
<path-to-game>\fakk\ and replace the existing files.
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- See the WSGF entry for a permanent FOV method.
Set with console[4]
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- Run the game.
- Open the console and enter
FOV ### (replace ### with the FOV you want).
Notes
- FOV set through the console needs to be set again when starting the game, changing levels and after some cut-scenes.
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Input
In-game control settings.
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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EAX support |
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A3D 1.0, EAX 2[5][6] (through Miles Sound System[7]) |
Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Russian |
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Spanish |
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VR support
Issues fixed
Windows
Top screenshot shows rendering issues when "Use Vertex Lighting" option is checked and HUD missing effects.
Black screen on launch
- Caused because sometimes installing the game doesn't copy the language files.
Instructions
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- Open the game CD, go to address
install\fakk and open the folder corresponding to your language.
- Copy
pak1.pk3 .
- Go to the game installation folder, open the
fakk folder and paste pak1.pk3 there.
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Unstable framerate and stuttering
- This performance issue can occur with newer graphics cards supporting OpenGL 4.0 and newer, it is most common on Windows Vista and Windows 7. Since the game is based on the Quake 3 engine and is using the same or a similar OpenGL version, the graphics card driver will handle the game correctly if it thinks that it is Quake 3.
Instructions[8]
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- Go to the game installation folder and rename
fakk2.exe to quake3.exe .
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Glitched skybox and missing visual effects
- If
Use Vertex Lighting
is checked in the advanced video options menu the maps will be missing some shadows, lights and textures(windows), and in the later levels the skybox will be glitched.
Instructions[9]
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- Go to the advanced options menu.
- Uncheck
Use Vertex Lighting .
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Missing HUD effects
- Health and water bar are rendered without effects.
Instructions[9]
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- Go to the game installation folder and rename
fakk2.exe to quake3.exe .
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ReShade does not load
Rename opengl32.dll to dinput.dll .
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Linux
No sound
- This happens due to the fact the game uses OSS for sound output only.
General[citation needed]
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- The software is not updated frequently.
Install the osspd package (Some distros like ArchLinux refers the package as ossp) and enable/start the osspd /osspd.service service.
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If using PulseAudio[citation needed]
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Run the game with padsp command (It is included with main PulseAudio package, if not, look for pulseaudio-utils)
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If using ALSA[citation needed]
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- Install alsa-oss package
- Load the following kernel modules as root with
modprobe command:
- snd-seq-oss
- snd-pcm-oss
- snd-mixer-oss
Run the game with aoss -32 (On 32 bit system just use aoss )
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
7 |
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OpenGL |
1.1 |
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Executable | PPC | 16-bit |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows | | |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
Audio |
OpenAL |
OSS, Linux only |
Interface |
SDL |
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Bonus level
- A short bonus level is included with the game, that shows various enemies and animations.
Instructions[9]
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- Press ~ to bring down the console (if the console is not enabled go to the advanced options menu and enable it).
- Type "map zoo"(without the quotation marks) and press ↵ Enter to play the map.
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System requirements
Windows | Mac OS (Classic) | macOS (OS X) | Linux |
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
95, NT 4.0 SP3 |
98, 2000 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium II 300 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) |
64 MB |
128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
150 MB |
500 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
DirectX 7.0 compatible | |
Linux |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
2.2.x Linux kernel | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
| 400 MHz Intel Pentium II |
System memory (RAM) |
64 MB |
128 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
400 MB | |
Video card (GPU) |
OpenGL compatible | |
Other |
OSS compatible sound and glibc-2.1 | |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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