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Fast & Furious: Showdown

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Fast & Furious: Showdown
Fast & Furious: Showdown cover
Developers
Firebrand Games
Publishers
Activision
Engines
Octane
Release dates
Windows May 23, 2013
Taxonomy
Series Fast & Furious
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General information

Steam Community Discussions

Key points

Stuttering on modern PC.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Not Available in United States, Mexico, Japan, Canada & China.
Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.
No longer available digitally, due to severe game problems; most likely due to losing rights to Fast & Furious license in game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Roaming\Activision\Fast & Furious™ - Showdown\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224340/pfx/[Note 1]
The following files, graphics.dat, keybindings.dat is encrypted.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Roaming\Activision\Fast & Furious™ - Showdown\save.bin
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224340/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Main resolutions not listed before 1280x720. See Custom resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
In-game UI elements are native.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA from 1x to 16x with no option to disable.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Called "Half Framerate Lock".
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
The character/driver physics animations are capped 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Consoles only.

Custom resolution

Main resolutions not listed before 1280x720.
Instructions
  1. Select your desired resolutions in GPUs control panel.
  2. Launch the game.

Notes:

Changing resolution in game options from chosen your desired may crash the game randomly.
The In game UI elements is still native.
The 4:3 resolutions are pillarboxed 16:9 (black bars).

Input

Key bindings.
Key bindings.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and Sound Effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Always on subtitles. No option to disable.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Contains rare licensed musics in game.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Retail Only. [1]
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Steam must be running to play this game (SteamAPI_Init() failed)

If you get the non-Steam version. A version is required a Steam DRM to play this game on retail.

Crashes the game when trying to get to the tunnel entrance on level "Mexico Infiltration".

Updating to the modern versions of Windows may cause randomly.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Bullet
Audio DTS, Dolby Digital
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista SP2, 7 32-bit, 7 64-bit
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz
AMD Phenom X3 8750
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
ATI Radeon HD 4850
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References