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Chrome SpecForce

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Chrome SpecForce
Chrome SpecForce cover
Developers
Techland
Publishers
Meridian4
Engines
Chrome Engine
Release dates
Windows August 19, 2005
Chrome
Chrome 2003
Chrome SpecForce 2005

Key points

The game includes a level editor and Java source code that can be recompiled to change the game logic and settings.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
Amazon.com
DRM details are not known
Windows

Essential improvements

Visual fidelity (unofficial patch)

A set of widescreen, FOV, HUD and text rendering fixes for Chrome and Chrome SpecForce. Enables native support for higher resolutions and Hor+ FOV. Also includes files to disable mouse acceleration, LOD switching and increase draw distance. Download from Mod DB.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46430/pfx/[Note 2]
AudioSettings.scr contains audio settings.
Controller.scr contains mouse and controller settings.
VideoSettings.scr contains video settings.
UserControls.scr contains key mapping settings.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/46430/pfx/[Note 2]
Each save uses multiple files.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Set resolution in VideoSettings.scr[1]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit VideoSettings.scr.
  3. Change the Resolution values to the width and height of the resolution you want.
  4. Save your changes and close the file.

Notes

Unofficial patch is available that makes the game support all available resolutions and displays them in the options menu. It also fixes stretching of some HUD elements.

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions[2]
  1. Open <path-to-game>\code.pak with 7-Zip or similar.
  2. Extract CameraPlayer.class file.
  3. Open CameraPlayer.class using dirtyJOE(Java editor) and in the constant pool tab find and replace the following values:
    1. 82 - first person perspective
    2. 60 - third person perspective
    3. 75 - vehicles, sniper, binoculars...
  4. Drop the edited file inside the <path-to-game>\code.pak archive to replace the existing file.

Notes

Edited files can be downloaded from WSGF.
Unofficial patch is available that changes FOV from Vert- to Hor+ and gives more options to edit different FOV settings.

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Spanish
Fan translation, download.
Russian
Fan translation, download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
32
Online play
32

Connection types

Issues fixed

Steam version installs DirectX at every launch

Delete/rename 46430_install.vdf[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename 46430_install.vdf.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.3 GHz
AMD Athlon 1.3 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 3
ATI Radeon 9200
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible

Notes

  1. 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/46430/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (46430) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References