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Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza

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Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza
Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza cover
Developers
Piranha Games
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Fox Interactive
1C Company
Логрус
Engines
Lithtech 2.0
Release dates
Windows April 22, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 54
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Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza on Wikipedia
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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
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SecuROM 4 DRM.
Windows
Only second hand copies available.

Essential improvements

Patches

Skip intro videos

Disable movies[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open autoexec.cfg with a text editor.
  3. 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.
Probably developers last minutes changes hurt the game. Need more fixes and tweaks but now gameplay better and feels more like how game should play, a bit more tactical.

Instructions

  1. Install patch v1.04.
  2. Download latest version of DIE_HARD_Improved_Edition .exe installer.
  3. 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.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
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)

Windowed

Enable windowed mode via config file[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open autoexec.cfg with a text editor.
  3. 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 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.

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
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2
  2. Copy D3D8.dll, D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll from MS folder that comes with dgVoodoo2 to the installation folder.
  3. In-game settings: change resolution to lowest (640x480)
  4. 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]
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.
  1. Download the d3d8to9.
  2. 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. ↑ 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