Hooligans: Storm Over Europe

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Released in the US as Hooligans.

Game runs severely slow on Windows 8 and 10.^[1] See Issues Fixed.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v2.51.021 DRM^{[Note 1]}

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

System	Location
Windows

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\save^{[Note 2]}

Hardware settings found in <path-to-game>/settings.exe

In-game options

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Stretched, maximum resolution is 1024x768. FMVs are stretched and windowboxed, menus and FMVs run at 800x600.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
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)		Off by default.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Maximum FPS in-game is 12.^[4]
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Labelled Scroll speed.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Keyboard are mouse are required to play the game.

Controller types

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		CD Music and Effects.
Surround sound		Stereo only.
Subtitles		For both gameplay and FMVs.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Type	Native	Notes
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Use DDrawCompat^{[citation needed]}

Notes

May exhibit artifacting when alt+tabbing the game

Wrapper has no configuration options, but does not produce Main-menu cursor trailing/flickering/ghosting as other fixes might

If used with a AMD 5700XT, CAS shader appears to work, AA and Anisotropic filtering can also be enabled via driver.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 300 Mhz	Intel Pentium III 600 Mhz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	300 MB	600 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible	8 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 8.0 compatible sound card
Other	4x CD-ROM drive	8x CD-ROM drive

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[2] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[3]
↑ 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).