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===Skip intro videos===
 
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===[[Glossary:Widescreen resolution|Widescreen resolution]]===
 
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FireStarter
FireStarter cover
Developers
GSC Game World
Publishers
Hip Games
Engines
FireStarter Engine
Release dates
Windows November 28, 2003
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi
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FireStarter on MobyGames
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FireStarter is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action and shooter game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 English copies use a simple disc check. Russian copies use StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename intro.avi[5]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\BASE\VIDEO.
  2. Delete or rename intro.avi.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\BASE\*.cfg[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
 Some resolutions not listed; see Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
 
 See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen
 
 See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
 
Field of view (FOV)
See Widescreen resolution.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Widescreen resolution

Set resolution in env_vars.cfg[6]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\BASE.
  2. Edit env_vars.cfg with a text editor.
  3. Set reg ker_width INT and reg ker_height INT to the desired resolution.
  4. Optionally, change reg w_cam_fov FLOAT "100.00000" to the desired field of view (FOV is Hor+ by default).

Notes

The in-game resolution option will show 800x600.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
32
Online play
32

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000 XP
Processor (CPU) AMD Duron 850 MHz
Intel Pentium III 750 MHz		 AMD Athlon 2000
Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible 		128 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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).

References