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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
Engines
Lithtech 2.0
Release dates
Windows April 22, 2002
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Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
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"

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 settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Enable widescreen resolution via config file[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open autoexec.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Add following lines to the bottom of the file:
"screenwidth" "1920"
"screenheight" "1080"
"Renderer" "DirectDraw HAL"
"fovx" "106"
"fovxinterface" "106"
"fovyuwmax" "124"

Notes

The given values are for 16:9 FOV and 1920x1080 resolution. You can change them to your desire. higher 4:3 resolutions also work. 1400x1050 tested.

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 settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Models of characters not being rendered properly

Install Patch 1.04[citation needed]

Black Screen Under Water

Use dgVoodoo 2[citation needed]
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2
  2. Copy D3D8.dll, D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll to your game folder.

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