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Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel

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Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel
Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel cover
Developers
SCS Software
Sunstorm Interactive
Publishers
ValuSoft
Engines
Prism3D
Release dates
Windows August 15, 2002
Taxonomy
Series Hard Truck, 18 Wheels of Steel
Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel on MobyGames
Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel on Wikipedia
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General information

SCS Software Forums for the game
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Latest version is Patch 1.2.
Installing the patch removes 1 AI car and 1 AI bus.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1318750/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\game\usr\save\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1318750/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Widescreen resolutions are Vert-. HUD is stretched. 4:3 resolutions display cockpit properly when the other cut it.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
This game supports 4k quite properly.
Field of view (FOV)
Fixed FOV (Vert-).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Up to 16 samples.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Called Sync every frame.(In Direct3D8 mode use d3d8to9 for Vsync to work on Windows 10). This option has to be turned on after each commencement of the game.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, sound
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Polish
Polish audio available only in CB radio. Subtitles appear on the pager when road works or accidents are present.

Issues fixed

Vsync not working on Windows10 (Direct3D8 mode)

  1. Download d3d8to9.
  2. Copy D3D8.DLL from the folder to the game install directory

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8 Setting Direct3d should work on better computers.
OpenGL
May be required (on weaker computers and Windows OSs) to be set instead of DirectX before the game to see the entire text.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 200 MB
Video card (GPU) 12 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible


Notes

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