Future Cop: LAPD
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Developers | |
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EA Redwood Shores | |
Publishers | |
Electronic Arts | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 25, 1998 |
Mac OS (Classic) | November 25, 1998 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | TPS |
Vehicles | Robot |
Themes | Sci-fi, North America |
Future Cop: LAPD is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view TPS game.
On modern systems, the game needs workarounds to properly install and enable hardware-accelerated rendering.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail |
- A free demo version is available from Archive.org
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch 1.0.2 (Mac OS) is a very important patch, fixing a crash issue in the single player mode in the third level.
- No patches have been released for the Windows version.
Playing on modern systems
- This installer should get around an issue related to the game not installing on 64-bit operating systems (English release only).
- The software rendering mode appears to be most stable and compatible of all three.
- Direct3D renderer looks best.
- The 3dfx renderer has black outlines on transparent textures and will fail to render some of the laser obstacles, but they should be fairly easy to detect and avoid.
- Be sure to edit the controller configuration in
controls.txt
after installation.
Installing the game with Direct3D rendering |
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Installing the game with 3dfx/software rendering, method 1[1] |
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Installing the game with 3dfx/software rendering, method 2[2] |
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Notes
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\controls.txt[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\save.cfg[Note 1] |
Mac OS (Classic) |
- Saving is only available after completing a level.
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Only in software mode. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Use dgVoodoo2. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Use dgVoodoo2. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | 37.5 fps cap | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | <path-to-game>\controls.txt | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 2 | |||
LAN play | ||||
Online play | The official multiplayer service has been shut down. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Issues fixed
Flickering videos (Windows 10)
Videos are flickering when using DgVoodoo2 |
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Move the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen until flickering stops. |
Freeze on loading (Windows 10)
Cannot get in-game due to freezing on the loading screen |
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Set processor affinity to CPU 0. |
Other information
API
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 90 MHz | Intel Pentium 166 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | 64 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | SVGA, Direct3D compatible Voodoo 1 2 MB of VRAM | 4 MB of VRAM |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | ||
Processor (CPU) | ||
System memory (RAM) | ||
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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
- ↑ Play Old PC Games - Future Cop: LAPD - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Vogons.org Forum - last accessed on May 2023