The Punisher (2005)
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Developers | |
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Volition | |
Publishers | |
THQ | |
Russobit-M | |
Engines | |
CTG[1] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | January 16, 2005 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 67 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | TPS |
Art styles | Realistic, Comic book |
Themes | Contemporary, North America |
Series | The Punisher |
The Punisher | |
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Subseries of Marvel | |
The Punisher | 1990 |
The Punisher (2005) | 2005 |
The Punisher (2005) is a singleplayer third-person TPS game in the The Punisher series.
Availability
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Skip intro videos[citation needed] |
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PunisherPlugin
- Removes "black and white" filter from interrogations.
- Optionally disable score penalties for executing enemies.
- Optionally enable dual wielding every weapon.
- supported pun.exe size: 2 605 056 bytes.
Debug Menu
- Enables various debug options
- Change player model, enable infinite health/ammo, freecam mode, etc.
The Punisher Gore Patch
- Removes "black and white" filter from interrogations.
- Restores unfinished blood effects on faces and a few quick kill animations.
- Compatible with both US and UK versions of the game. All European versions of the game are compatible with the UK version of the patch.
- Compatible with PunisherPlugin if you use
pun.exe
instead ofThe Punisher No Black & White Effects.exe
-
The Punisher No Black & White Effects.exe
will disable some post processing effects to remove the B&W filter, unlike PunisherPlugin.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\profiles\[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Windowed | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Can be forced in GPU control panel. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Up to 8x MSAA via dgVoodoo2. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Frame rates higher than 60 FPS can cause problems with interrogations and aiming. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Widescreen resolution
Use The Punisher Widescreen Fix[citation needed] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Effects, Music, Voice. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
Italian | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation. | |||
Polish | Local retail only. | |||
Russian | ||||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
Interrogations and aiming issues
Use ThirteenAG's fix |
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Limit the Framerate to 60FPS[citation needed] |
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Use d3d8to9 wrapper[citation needed] |
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Incorrect black levels
Black level correction with ReShade[citation needed] |
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Use dgVoodoo 2. |
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Stuttering on HDD
Disable APM[2] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8.1 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 SE, ME | 2000, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz |
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+ |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Hardware T&L compatible 64 MB of VRAM | Nvidia GeForce 4 ATI Radeon 8500 128 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ What was the engine used to run the Punisher game from 2004? - Twitter - last accessed on 2015-05-05
- ↑ Stuttering on secondary HD - Tom's Hardware - last accessed on May 9, 2014