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Fire Department

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Fire Department
Fire Department cover
Developers
Monte Cristo
Publishers
Europe Monte Cristo
USA DreamCatcher Interactive
Release dates
Windows July 30, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 79
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Simulation, Strategy
Themes Contemporary
Series Fire Department
Fire Department on MobyGames
Fire Department on Wikipedia
Fire Department
Fire Department 2003
Fire Department 2 2004
Fire Department 3 2006

Fire Department is a singleplayer bird's-eye view simulation and strategy game in the Fire Department series.

Key points

Also known as Emergency Fire Response in the US and Fire Chief in the UK.

Availability

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

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions[1]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Logic\video
  2. Rename, move or delete this file:
intro.mpg

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
The player can zoom in and out.
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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
Only a global volume slider is available.
Surround sound
Subtitles
The mission briefings are subtitled. The unit speech and announcements are not.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 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

  1. Verified by User:Nessy on 2020-01-22