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Boiling Point: Road to Hell

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Boiling Point: Road to Hell
Boiling Point: Road to Hell cover
Developers
Deep Shadows
Publishers
Russobit-M
Atari
Engines
Vital Engine
Release dates
Windows May 20, 2005
Taxonomy
Series Xenus
Boiling Point: Road to Hell on MobyGames
Boiling Point: Road to Hell on Wikipedia
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Xenus
Boiling Point: Road to Hell 2005
Xenus II: White Gold 2008
Precursors 2009

Key points

Released as Xenus: Точка кипения (Xenus: Boiling Point) in Ukraine and Russia.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SecuROM 7 DRM. Czech copies use StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
 German magazine covermounts. Pre-patched to version 2.0.
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patches

  • Patch 2.0 fixes many crucial issues with the game.
  • Last patch for game - 2.2. But that patch included to "Xenus Gold Edition" with Russian language and unavailable for other languages.

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Open GAME.INI file in <path-to-game>
  2. Find [Game] section and delete all four 'AVI%= ...' lines.
  3. Go to <path-to-game>\Avi
  4. Delete or rename all four files.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\GAME.INI[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 2]

Video

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.
In-game custom gfx settings.
In-game custom gfx settings.
In-game custom effects settings.
In-game custom effects settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
 See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
 
Ultra-widescreen
 
 See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
 
 See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
up to 7x
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Use modified DLLs[5]
  1. Download the modified DLL files provided by WSGF and extract them.
  2. Copy appropriate DX8RENDER.DLL to the installation folder replacing the original one.

Notes

2.0 Patch is required. See Patches.
Setting up custom resolution[citation needed]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\GAME.ini.
  2. Find lines ModeWidth= and ModeHeight=.
  3. Replace their values with a desired game resolution and save the changes.

Notes

Changing in-game video settings will revert the changes.

Field of view (FOV)

Use game's console[citation needed]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\GAME.ini.
  2. Find a section [Console].
  3. Below it, add a line enabled=1.
  4. Save the changes.
  5. While in game press ~ to open the console.
  6. Type in FOV X where X is your horizontal FOV value, for example FOV 105.

Notes

The screen change is Vert-. Use this FOV calculator to calculate the proper horizontal FOV value (described as New hFOV in calculator).

Input

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and sound effects volume slider.
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output. Requires DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Retail version
Czech
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Retail version\Xenus Gold Edition 2007
Spanish

Issues fixed

Glow setting is lost each time when starting game

Glow setting is lost each time when starting game[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open Game.ini
  3. Find this line Bloom=0. Change the 0 value to 1.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000 XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.3 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1600		 Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 3000
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7500 LE
AMD Radeon X300 Series 		Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT
Operating systems released after XP are not officially supported.


Notes

  1. ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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