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General information
- Official site - retrieved with Wayback machine from July 2008.
Availability
Source |
DRM |
Notes |
Keys |
OS |
Retail |
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4 CD-ROMS. 1-3 install discs and play disc, Or 1 DVD-ROM. SecuROM DRM. |
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- This game is not available digitally.
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch 1.52 updates the game to the latest version.
Skip intro videos
Skip intro videos[citation needed]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\movies\ .
- Delete or rename
atari.avi , shiny.avi , wb.avi and optionally totitle.avi .
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Run in windowed/borderless[citation needed]
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- Download the Widescreen Fix.
- Extract the contents to
<path-to-game> .
- Create
wndmode.ini in <path-to-game> .
Notes
- Window is always borderless, so selecting monitors native resolution makes the game borderless windowed.
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Change AF manually[citation needed]
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- Open
<path-to-game>\MatrixConfig.ini .
- Set
FILTERING =3 .
- Set
FILTERSAMPLES =16 .
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Input
Key rebinding: Hovercraft.
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Under Graphics settings. |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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See Mute on focus lost. |
EAX support |
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EAX 3.[2] |
Royalty free audio |
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Language choices presented with first startup.
Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Local retail version only. |
Polish |
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Local retail version only. Language select is disabled and the launcher features more options.[3] |
Portuguese |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Local retail version only. |
Spanish |
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Russian |
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Local retail version only.
Experience may vary: there are various versions of russian localizations with different quality of localization, which may or may not have 2 versions of dub: by Kudos or by Дядюшка Рисёч. |
Traditional Chinese |
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Local retail version only. |
Mute on focus lost
Set mute in background[citation needed]
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- Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide.
- Start the game and press Ctrl+⇧ Shift+← Backspace to toggle Special K's Control Panel.
- Expand "Window Management" and "Input/Output Behavior".
- Enable "Mute Game" under "Background Behavior".
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Issues unresolved
Changing language
- Language option is only given when first starting the game. Changing language requires complete deletion of save data.
Issues fixed
Run the game at screen refresh rate
- Fullscreen mode defaults to 60 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.
Set screen refresh rate[citation needed]
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- Install Special K by following this unofficial guide.
- Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
- Open
<path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\Matrix.exe\SpecialK.ini , depending on the installation method used.
- Change
RefreshRate=-1 to RefreshRate=0 under [Render.FrameRate] .
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Extremely low performance
- On many configurations, the game performs badly. One way to improve the performance a bit is to enable Force Object LOD in game's launcher - this however comes at the cost of poor model quality. The game's performance can be further increased to constant 60 FPS by using dgVoodoo 2, but it doesn't work correctly with widescreen.
Instructions below
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- First, install ThirteenAG's Widescreen Fix.
- Run
MatrixOptions.exe .
- Pick the desired resolution and check Force Object LOD.
- Before hitting play, rename the Widescreen Fix's
d3d9.dll to dinput8.dll , and then simply copy the following files from the downloaded dgVoodoo: MS\d3d9.dll and D3DImm.dll , to <path-to-game> .
- Now press Play. The game can be run directly from
Matrix.exe from now on.
Notes
- Running
MatrixOptions.exe will reset the resolution, so it's not advised to use the executable again.
- Widescreen Fix's
d3d9.dll allows listing modern resolutions in MatrixOptions.exe . If the game doesn't have a proper widescreen resolution set in the config file (generates itself on first launch of MatrixOptions.exe ) or in MatrixOptions.exe , the game won't show anything if the resolution is forced manually in dgVoodoo2 - widescreen resolutions need to be set in the game in the first place.
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Missing texture filtering on character clothes
- The PC port by default has unfiltered textures for character clothing.
Force texture filtering using dgVoodoo2 (tested with version 2.75.1)
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- Follow this DirectX 9 installation guide.
- Open
dgVoodooCpl.exe and select <path-to-game> from the dropdown menu if it is not selected already.
- Go to the DirectX tab.
- Under Videocard select GeForce FX 5700 Ultra and set it's VRAM to 256 MB.
- Under Texturing select the Force anisotropic 16x Filtering option.
- Tick the Fast video memory access box and untick the dgVoodoo Watermark box.
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VR support
3D modes |
State |
Notes |
vorpX |
| G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. |
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
98SE, ME, 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium III 800 MHz AMD Duron 800 MHz |
Intel Pentium III 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
128 MB |
256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
4.3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce 256 ATI Radeon 8500 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible
| Nvidia GeForce 3 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible |
Sound (audio device) |
Windows-compatible sound card |
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 |
Other |
4X CD-ROM Drive |
36X CD-ROM Drive 7200 RPM HDD |
Notes
References