The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.
General information
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Delete video files
|
- Go to
<path-to-game>\data\movie\ .
- Delete or rename
Logo_Dar.bik , Logo_Ubi.bik , Renderware.bik and RW.bik .
|
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
- 6 save slots available.
Video
Force SGSSAA (Nvidia only)[7]
|
- Download and run Nvidia Profile Inspector.
- Select the Cold Fear profile.
- Change
Antialiasing compatibility value to 0x000000C1 .
- Change
Antialiasing - Behavior Flags to None .
- Change
Antialiasing - Mode to Override any application setting .
- Change
Antialiasing - Setting to 8xQ [8x Multisampling] .
- Change
Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling to 8x Sparse Grid Supersampling .
- Press "Apply Changes" in the top-right corner.
|
- Distorts Realtime Shadows.
Set FOV[8]
|
- Go to
<path-to-game>\Conf\ .
- Edit
Heroes.cfg .
- Find the following lines and change the values to your desired FOV.
CAMERA_AIM_FOV
CAMERA_CONSTRAINT_FOV
CAMERA_FOLLOW_MAXDIST
|
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
|
Separate options for music, sound effects, and voices. |
Surround sound |
|
|
Subtitles |
|
|
Closed captions |
|
|
Mute on focus lost |
|
|
Royalty free audio |
|
|
Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
|
|
|
|
French |
|
|
|
|
German |
|
|
|
|
Italian |
|
|
|
|
Brazilian Portuguese |
|
|
|
Fan translation: download (GGames). |
Spanish |
|
|
|
|
Russian |
|
|
|
Retail only. Patch for digital release here. |
Polish |
|
|
|
Retail only, Download. |
VR support
Issues unresolved
Anischenko Texture Stretching
- During certain animations, the boss' textures are glitchy and stretch across the environment.
Mouse cursor does not remain inside the window
- There is no fix so far.
Issues fixed
Game doesn't launch after changing resolution
Create a blank file in the installation folder
|
- Delete
res.bin in the installation folder.
- Create a new text document.
- Save the blank document as
res.bin in the installation folder.
- Right-click on the newly saved blank file and select Properties.
- Check Read-only and click OK.
|
Changing FOV Distorts Realtime Shadows
Install the Widescreen Patch with killer-m's fix to make realtime shadows ignore FOV[9]
|
- Install ThirteenAG's Widescreen Patch by unzipping the contents of
ColdFear.WidescreenFix.zip into <path-to-game> .
- Install killer-m's fix by unzipping the contents of
scripts.zip into the installation directory, so that the scripts folder now contains ColdFear.ShadowsFix.patch and ColdFear.ShadowsFix.asi .
Notes:
- The nightly Widescreen Patch is intended to fix this issue on its own,[10] but it doesn't seem to work without killer-m's fix.[11]
|
Animations speed up and errors during gameplay
Set the refresh rate to 60Hz
|
DXVK issues: crash before main menu, corrupted graphics (Proton/Linux)
- The game does not work with some versions of DXVK, which is enabled by default in Proton 5.0 and newer. If DXVK is left enabled in Proton 5.0-10, 5.13-6, 6.3-8, or 7.0-6, the game won't run.
Enable "Use WineD3D" flag
|
Run Proton with the environment variable PROTON_USE_WINED3D set to 1 . (In the General tab of the game's Properties window in Steam, put PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% in the launch options field.)
|
Use the latest Proton
|
In the Compatibility tab of the game's Properties window in Steam, enable the "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" option and select Proton 8.0 or newer from the drop-down list.
|
Use an older version of Proton that uses WineD3D by default
|
In the Compatibility tab of the game's Properties window in Steam, enable the "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" option and select Proton 4.11-13 or older from the drop-down list.
|
Reduced color depth (Proton/Linux)
- Color banding may occur with Proton 6.3-8.
Use a different Proton version
|
In the Compatibility tab of the game's Properties window in Steam, enable the "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" option and select Proton 5.13-6 or older, or Proton 7.0-6 or newer, from the drop-down list.
|
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9 |
|
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
|
|
|
Middleware
Mods
- Game is mod-friendly. Most game variables are within editable config files located at
<path-to-game>\Conf\
.
- A rebalance mod that makes you move faster, gives a flashlight to nearly every weapon, increases the max ammo of each weapon, increases the clip size of the pistol, etc.[12]
- By default Extreme difficulty is locked until you complete a playthrough on Hard difficulty, this mod replaces
COLDFEAR.DAT
with one where the difficulty is already unlocked.
- Extreme Difficulty sets your maximum health to 4% of Normal Difficulty so that you basically die in one hit. Enemies are made less aggressive and/or accurate to compensate.
System requirements
Windows |
|
Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
2000 |
XP |
Processor (CPU) |
1 GHz
| 2 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
256 MB |
512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
2.2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 8500 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible
| 128 MB of VRAM |
Other |
8X DVD-ROM | |
- Supported ATI Radeon video cards: 8500/9000/X
- Supported Nvidia GeForce video cards: 3/4/FX/6 (4 MX not supported)
Notes
References