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Bionic Commando (2009)

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Bionic Commando
Bionic Commando cover
Developers
GRIN
Publishers
Capcom
Engines
Diesel
Release dates
Windows July 28, 2009
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Key points

Very few video customization settings.
Uses Xbox controller prompts for keyboard and mouse.
Aim Acceleration cannot be disabled when using a controller.
In-game mouse movement depends on the framerate and is very jerky even at 60 FPS. It gets smooth when the game runs at around 100 FPS or higher.[1]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SecuROM DRM disc check.[2]
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Launch the game with the -nointro parameter[3]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\BC\data\settings\
<path-to-game>\data\settings\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/21670/pfx/[Note 2]
controls.xml stores control bindings.
renderer_settings.xml stores video settings.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\BC\saves\
<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\21670\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/21670/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Edit renderer_settings.xml[1]
  1. Open %LOCALAPPDATA%\BC\data\settings\renderer_settings.xml with a text editor.
  2. Change windowed = "false" to windowed = "true"
  3. Save the changes.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Force SGSSAA (Nvidia only)[4]
  1. Download and run Nvidia Profile Inspector.
  2. Search for Bionic Commando in the profiles list.
  3. Set Antialiasing compatibility to 0x004010C1.
  4. Set Antialiasing - Mode to Override any application setting.
  5. Set Antialiasing - Setting to 2x/4x/8xQ Multisampling.
  6. Set Antialiasing - Transparency supersampling to 2x/4x/8x Sparse Grid Supersampling (the level must match the previous setting).
  7. Optionally, set Texture filtering - LOD Bias to either -0.500 (if using 2x MSAA + 2x SGSSAA), -1.000 (if using 4x) or -1.500 (if using 8x). This will increase sharpness, but may mess up some visual effects.
  8. Click Apply to save the changes.

Notes

Don't Alt+Tab ↹ out of the game without opening a menu first, otherwise the lighting will be messed up.
Alternative solutions[1]
  • Morphological filtering (MLAA) can be forced in the graphics card control panel (AMD).
  • Force SMAA using injectSMAA.
  • Enable Virtual/Dynamic Super Resolution in the graphics card control panel and render the game at a higher resolution than the monitor's native resolution.

Input settings

Control bindings.
Control bindings.
Input device is selected by pressing either ↵ Enter or Start button at the start screen, which disables the other device from that point on.

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Bind all secondary weapons to one key

Since you can't have multiple secondary weapons at the same time only one key is needed.
Edit controls.xml[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open controls.xml.
  3. Find the lines:
<button name="equip_hiker" input="3"/>
<button name="equip_sniper" input="4"/>
<button name="equip_tarantula" input="5"/>
<button name="equip_bulldog" input="6"/>
<button name="equip_mgsj" input="7"/>

4. And for example change them to: 

<button name="equip_hiker" input="3"/>
<button name="equip_sniper" input="3"/>
<button name="equip_tarantula" input="3"/>
<button name="equip_bulldog" input="3"/>
<button name="equip_mgsj" input="3"/>

Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Game crashes on startup

Install a specific Physx version[citation needed]
  1. Download and install http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.13.1220-driver.html

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio OpenAL
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP SP2
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
AMD Athlon X2 5200+ 2.6 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1.5 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 8.0 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7800 series
ATI Radeon X1900
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support

Notes

  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).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References