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Dino Crisis
Dino Crisis	2000
Dino Crisis 2	2002

Dino Crisis is a singleplayer cinematic-camera survival horror game by Capcom, originally released on PlayStation on July 1, 1999.
It is one of the very few survival horror games released by Capcom on PS1 to use fully 3D rendered environments instead of prerendered backgrounds.

The game suffers from visible border artifacts on filtered textures with transparencies. Performance, resolution and texture distortion can be resolved by using Dino Crisis Classic REbirth.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		LaserLock DRM.

Essential improvements

Patches

An official Windows XP Patch by SourceNext is available here.

Dino Crisis Classic REbirth

Requires Japanese SourceNext release.

Replaces DirectDraw 5.00 with DirectX 9, for improved compatibility with modern GPUs (and prevents rundll32.exe from executing for no good reason). (OpenGL and DirectX11 will be implemented in the future).

Replaces DirectInput 3.00/5.00 with new input methods such as XInput, RawInput, DirectInput 8.0 (also native keyboard support), effectively allowing most controllers to be detected and supported by the game.

Replaces DirectShow video playback with a custom video player that doesn’t depend on deprecated Microsoft technologies. No codecs required, FFmpeg takes care of Indeo5 and adds native MP4 + AAC support.

Adds a new 3D rendering mode with more precise transformation methods that fix wobbliness and texture warping.

Improves sound capabilities of the game, making the audio driver switch from 22050Hz 8bit audio driver to 44100Hz 16bits. It also fixes a bug that causes music to increasingly speed up when player gets damaged across rooms without healing.

Adds resolutions higher than 640×480 (supports 4K too), adds a hotkey to switch resolution in game, and provides a more stable borderless window mode to replace glitchy fullscreen.

Adds an optional adaptative wide screen mode to fill the whole screen area (i.e. 16:9 & 16:10 ratios or even ultra widescreen, you name it).

Fixes frame rate issue to provide smooth 30/60 fps support.

Removes the need to install the game or to launch it via a dedicated launcher. Just copy your data from the install disk, add the DLL, execute game and you are ready to go. If your copy was already installed, the DLL will convert Registry settings on the fly.

Translates the Japanese version into English.

Website also offers links for higher-quality Audio/SFX and Videos (see below).

May require changing dpi compatibility settings to enable resolutions above 720p.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CAPCOM\DINOCRISIS^{[Note 1]}

Dino Crisis Classic REbirth makes the game portable.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVE*.dno^{[Note 2]}

Video

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Multi-monitor		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Ultra-widescreen		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
4K Ultra HD		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth. May require changing DPI compatibility settings to enable resolutions above 720p.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	Locked to 640x480. Can be improved with Dino Crisis Classic REbirth.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS	Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS.^[1] Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth for 60 FPS in menus (gameplay remains at 30 FPS).
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth for more settings
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth for more settings
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Xbox button prompts		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
PlayStation button prompts		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Light bar support		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian
Spanish
French
Japanese
Italian

Issues fixed

Fullscreen border on Windows 8 and later

Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth for borderless mode^[2]

Classic REbirth does not enable resolutions above 720p

Change high DPI compatibility settings
Right-click the game executable (DINO.exe) or desktop shortcut. Select Properties. Go to the Compatibility tab. Click `Change high DPI settings`. Tick `Override high DPI scaling behavior`. Select `Application` in the drop-down menu. Click OK.

Low frame rate

Play a media file through Windows Media Player or MPC-HC in the background

Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth

Game crashing after the Capcom logo

Close MSI Afterburner

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz	Intel Pentium III or better
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	64 MB or more
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 MB (with CD)	600 MB or more
Video card (GPU)	DirectDraw 6.1 compatible 640x480 High Color (16 bit) 4 MB of VRAM	Direct3D 6.1 compatible 640x480 High Color (16 bit) 16 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
↑ 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

↑ Dino Crisis PSX, Dreamcast, and PC Differences - NeoGAF - last accessed on November 30, 2016
↑ Verified by User:Keith on 2020-04-25

[HKLM-1] Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

[gamedir-2] 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).

[30fps-3] Dino Crisis PSX, Dreamcast, and PC Differences - NeoGAF - last accessed on November 30, 2016

[4] Verified by User:Keith on 2020-04-25

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 ===[https://classicrebirth.com/index.php/dino-crisis-classic-rebirth/ Dino Crisis Classic REbirth]===
 {{ii}} Requires Japanese SourceNext release.
-{{++}} Replaces DirectDraw with DirectX 9, fixes issues with higher resolutions (texture warping, polygon wobbling, aggressive bilinear filtering), adds adaptative screen ratio modes (widescreen and ultra-widescreen) and adds borderless windowed mode.
+{{++}} Replaces DirectDraw 5.00 with DirectX 9, for improved compatibility with modern GPUs (and prevents rundll32.exe from executing for no good reason). (OpenGL and DirectX11 will be implemented in the future).
-{{++}} Replaces DInput 5.00 with XInput, DInput 8.00 and RawInput. Fixes audio issues and replaces DirectShow video playback with FFmpeg.
+{{++}} Replaces DirectInput 3.00/5.00 with new input methods such as XInput, RawInput, DirectInput 8.0 (also native keyboard support), effectively allowing most controllers to be detected and supported by the game.
-{{++}} Changes frame rate to stable 30 FPS (and 60 FPS in menus).
+{{++}} Replaces DirectShow video playback with a custom video player that doesn’t depend on deprecated Microsoft technologies. No codecs required, FFmpeg takes care of Indeo5 and adds native MP4 + AAC support.
-{{++}} Removes the need to run the game from its launcher (comes with a custom embedded launcher), removes the disc check and makes the game portable.
+{{++}} Adds a new 3D rendering mode with more precise transformation methods that fix wobbliness and texture warping.
+{{++}} Improves sound capabilities of the game, making the audio driver switch from 22050Hz 8bit audio driver to 44100Hz 16bits. It also fixes a bug that causes music to increasingly speed up when player gets damaged across rooms without healing.
+{{++}} Adds resolutions higher than 640×480 (supports 4K too), adds a hotkey to switch resolution in game, and provides a more stable borderless window mode to replace glitchy fullscreen.
+{{++}} Adds an optional adaptative wide screen mode to fill the whole screen area (i.e. 16:9 & 16:10 ratios or even ultra widescreen, you name it).
+{{++}} Fixes frame rate issue to provide smooth 30/60 fps support.
+{{++}} Removes the need to install the game or to launch it via a dedicated launcher. Just copy your data from the install disk, add the DLL, execute game and you are ready to go. If your copy was already installed, the DLL will convert Registry settings on the fly.
 {{++}} Translates the Japanese version into English.
-{{ii}} Website also offers links for higher-quality sound and FMVs (see below).
+{{ii}} Website also offers links for higher-quality Audio/SFX and Videos (see below).
 {{ii}} May require [[#Classic REbirth does not enable resolutions above 720p|changing dpi compatibility settings]] to enable resolutions above 720p.

Developers

	Capcom
Release dates
Windows	September 15, 2000
Reception
Metacritic	59
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Cinematic camera
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Survival horror
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary, Horror
Series	Dino Crisis