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Revision as of 09:37, 28 October 2022

Gotcha! Extreme Paintball
Gotcha! Extreme Paintball cover
Developers
Sixteen Tons Entertainment
Publishers
United States Viva Media
France Global Star Software
Germany Gathering of Developers
Engines
Vision
Release dates
Windows July 31, 2004
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres FPS, Action, Shooter, Sports
Sports Paintball
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Gotcha! Extreme Paintball on MobyGames
Gotcha! Extreme Paintball on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Key points

Also known as Gotcha! in Europe.
GameSpy online server browser has stopped working on May 31, 2014 due to GameSpy services being shut down.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Gotcha.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Change the value of <var name="r_fov" value="65" /> to the desired value in <path-to-game>\Gotcha.cfg.
Windowed
Change the value of <var name="r_fullscreen" value="1" /> to 0 in <path-to-game>\Gotcha.cfg.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Change the value of <var name="r_tex_anisotropic" value="1." /> in <path-to-game>\Gotcha.cfg, where the value is your desired Anistropic filtering value (maximum of 16).
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Replace Gotcha.exe

Download this patched executable and replace the original. It adds widescreen resolutions and replaces the GameSpy service with OpenSpy to host and join multiplayer games.

Set through console[citation needed]
  1. Start the game and load your profile.
  2. Open the console by pressing F11 then type in the following (replacing the numbers with the desired X and Y values for resolution), then restart the game:
set r_xres 1920
set r_yres 1080

Input

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Versus
Online play
Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 59331, 7778-7878, 80
UDP 59331, 7778-7878
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 1.3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98SE
Processor (CPU) 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 2
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible


Notes

  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