Constantine

Constantine

Developers
	Bits Studios
	SCi Games
Publishers
	THQ
Release dates
Windows	February 15, 2005
Taxonomy
Series	DC

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Start the game with -skipMovies command line argument

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SCi Games\Constantine_3.23\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\*.dat <path-to-game>\*.dpt

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Toggled by pressing F2 on the video options screen. See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Toggle On and Off. On seems to be either Anisotropy x2 or x4.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Capped at 30fps.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Set windowed resolution manually

1. Download and launch AutoHotkey. 2. Either create a new script or edit the default one. 3. Use the following script: #UseHook On F12:: GameWidth := 1600 GameHeight := 900 WinGet, WindowID, ID, A ;WinSet, Style, -0xC40000, ahk_id %WindowID% WinMove, ahk_id %WindowID%, , 1920/2 - GameWidth/2, 0, GameWidth, GameHeight Return 4. Edit desired Game Width and Height in the script. 5. Start the game in Windowed mode. 6. Press F12 to when game is in focus to set window resolution. 7. Alt+Tab ↹ from the game and then Alt+Tab ↹ back to a game to restart the renderer and make it adjust to the resolution.

Input

In-game input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Negative mouse acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity		Available from pause menu.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Available from pause menu.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		Available from pause menu.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Available from pause menu.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		None of the sliders affects FMV volume.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		No option to disable it.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Spanish

Issues fixed

Game doesn't start in Windows 10

Change compatibility settings
Change the compatibility settings for Constantine.exe to Windows 7. Not happening in all Windows 10 setups. Cause of the issue still unknown. Can cause crashes during the videos.

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D User created game profile, important hints see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, 2000, ME, XP	XP
Processor (CPU)	AMD or Intel - 1.5 GHz	AMD or Intel - 2.6 GHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM Shader model 2.0 support	128 MB of VRAM