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Dead to Rights

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Dead to Rights
Dead to Rights cover
Developers
Bandai Namco Entertainment
Publishers
Hip Games
Release dates
Windows November 10, 2003
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Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
Dead to Rights
Dead to Rights 2003
Dead to Rights II 2005

Key points

Install Microsoft DirectInput Mapper to fix remapping issues on Windows Vista and later.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

See Patches.

Skip intro videos

Skip intro movies
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\bink\
  2. Delete or rename alienw.bik, hip.bik and namco.bik

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\settings.cfg[Note 2]

Save game data location

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

Video settings

Launcher graphics settings.
Launcher graphics settings.

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Windowed mode breaks the in-game brightness function.
Force windowed[citation needed]
  1. Download and run DxWnd.
  2. Click on Edit, then Add.
  3. Set the name and executable path.
  4. Set the window position and size.
  5. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed.
  6. Click on Input tab, set Cursor clipper to On.
  7. Click on DirectX tab, set DirectX9.
  8. Click OK, then File and Save.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

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

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language options
Language options
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Subtitles appear only for game dialog, not cutscenes.
German
Subtitles appear only for game dialog, not cutscenes.
Italian
Subtitles appear only for game dialog, not cutscenes.
Spanish
Subtitles appear only for game dialog, not cutscenes.

Issues fixed

Camera doesn't react to slow mouse movements

Decrease mouse polling rate[citation needed]
  1. Open Razer Synapse if installed.
  2. Click on Performance tab.
  3. Set Polling Rate to 125 Hz.

Can't remap controls

Fix remapping issues[citation needed]

Going above 60 fps makes tutorial mission unplayable

limit you framerate to 60 fps[citation needed]
  1. Open Nvidia Control Panel.
  2. Click on Manage 3D settings.
  3. Select Program settings.
  4. Select Add and add dtrpc.exe.
  5. Click Max Frame Rate, select 60 fps and save.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB (Win98/ME)
128 MB (Win2K/XP)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 600 MB (Minimum Install)
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 2
Hardware TnL
16 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)

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