Difference between revisions of "Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza"

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Die Hard
Die Hard	1989
Die Hard 2: Die Harder	1992
Die Hard Trilogy	1996
Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas	2000
Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza	2002

Key points

Some minor gameplay improvements and fixes made in Improved Edition mod.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 4 DRM. Despite what the description for "Minimum Install" says about it requiring the CD, "Maximum Install" still requires the disc for the game to be played.

Only second hand copies available.

Essential improvements

Patches

v1.04

Skip intro videos

Disable movies^{[citation needed]}
Go to the installation folder. Open `autoexec.cfg` with a text editor. Change `"nomovies" "0"` to `"nomovies" "1"`

Improved Edition

Gameplay fixes and improvements

Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza (Improved Edition)

Recoil animation lowered, bullets hit register and distance fixed, enemies reaction to damage fixed, disappearing dead bodies fixed (most of them), infinite enemies respawning disabled, and more various fixes and balances.

Instructions

Install patch v1.04.
Download latest version of DIE_HARD_Improved_Edition .exe installer.
Open .exe and install to <path-to-game>.

Notes

Enemies AI behaviors unchanged.

Boss type enemies health lowered to human levels, still have high accuracy and reaction.

Recommended to play "Hard" difficulty, after fixes was needed gameplay balance, and core focus was hard difficulty.

"Easy" and "Normal" is lowered enemies stats from core "Hard" difficulty, not fully tested.

On "Sewer" level disabled instant death penalty for shooting/killing SWAT members.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\^{[Note 1]}

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Force via GPU control panel. Nvidia users can force SGSSAA in Nvidia Profile Inspector.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Too high frame rate makes the game unplayable.See High FPS Issues
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Edit config file^[1]
Go to `<path-to-game>`. Open `autoexec.cfg` with a text editor. Find the line `"screenwidth"` and set to desired value, e.g. `"1920"`. Find the line `"screenheight"` and set to desired value, e.g. `"1080"`. Save the file.

Windowed

Enable windowed mode via config file^{[citation needed]}

Go to the installation folder.
Open autoexec.cfg with a text editor.
Add line "Windowed" "1"

Notes

Running a game in windowed mode disables vsync, unlocking frame rate. To avoid issues with the game, make sure to limit the frame rate.

Input

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

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		Located under Video options.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Loosing focus minimizes the game.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian

Issues fixed

Models of characters not being rendered properly

Install Patch 1.04^{[citation needed]}

Black Screen Under Water

Use dgVoodoo 2 Download dgVoodoo 2 Copy `D3D8.dll`, `D3DImm.dll` and `DDraw.dll` from MS folder that comes with dgVoodoo2 to the installation folder. In-game settings: change resolution to lowest (640x480) Inside dgVoodoo 2, go to DirectX tab, change resolution to 640x480.

High FPS Issues

Occurs due to script breaking at fps higher than 60fps

Limit the Framerate to 60FPS^{[citation needed]}
See Frame rate capping.

Vsync (Enabled by default) not working on Windows10

Vsync is enabled by default, but in Windows 10 it does not work because the Vsync of DirectX 8 in Windows 10 is broken.

Download the d3d8to9.
Copy D3D8.DLL from the folder to the game install directory and set the monitor refresh rate to 60 Hz.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II - 400 MHz	Intel Pentium III - 700 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	660 MB	860 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.0a compatible	64 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^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).

References

↑ Verified by User:Demon272481 on 2022-07-28

[gamedir-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] Verified by User:Demon272481 on 2022-07-28

[Note 1]

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 |antialiasing               = true
 |antialiasing notes         = Force via [[Glossary:Anti-aliasing (AA)#Forcing Anti-Aliasing|GPU control panel]].<br/>Nvidia users can force [[SGSSAA]] in [[Nvidia Profile Inspector]].
+|upscaling                  = unknown
+|upscaling tech             =
+|upscaling notes            =
 |vsync                      = always on
 |vsync notes                =
@@ Line 150: / Line 153: @@
 |acceleration option notes =
 |mouse sensitivity         = true
-|mouse sensitivity notes   = sensitivity and smoothing options
+|mouse sensitivity notes   = Sensitivity and smoothing options
 |mouse menu                = true
 |mouse menu notes          =
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 |mute on focus lost notes = Loosing focus minimizes the game.
 |eax support              =
-|eax support notes        =
+|eax support notes         =
+|royalty free audio        = unknown
+|royalty free audio notes  =
 }}
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 |windows 32-bit exe     = true
 |windows 64-bit exe     = false
+|windows arm app        = false
 |windows exe notes      =
 |macos intel 32-bit app =
 |macos intel 64-bit app =
+|macos arm app          = unknown
 |macos app notes        =
 |linux 32-bit executable=
 |linux 64-bit executable=
+|linux arm app          = unknown
 |linux executable notes =
 }}

Developers

	Piranha Games
Publishers
	Sierra Entertainment
	Fox Interactive
	1C Company
	Логрус
Engines
	Lithtech 2.0
Release dates
Windows	April 22, 2002
Reception
Metacritic	54
Taxonomy
Series	Die Hard