Initial D: Mountain Vengeance

Initial D
Initial D: Ryosuke Takahashi's Fastest Typing Theory	2000
Initial D Second Stage: Fastest Typing in Kanto Project	2001
Initial D: Mountain Vengeance	2004

Key points

Based on the TOKYOPOP dub of the anime, and thus uses the dub's names and soundtrack.

Released only in North America.

Limited video options; only two (800x600, 1024x768) screen resolutions. See Increase Rendering Resolution.

General information

MobyGames entry

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		CD-ROM used only for installation.

This game is not available digitally.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\cfg^{[Note 1]}

Editing files doesn't seem to change anything.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\^{[Note 1]}

Save files are encrypted.

Sound and Display options.

Play at 1080p or higher

Download dgVoodoo.
Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe and dgVoodoo.conf to <path-to-game>, where InitialD.exe resides.
Open the MS folder in the dgVoodoo zip and extract DDraw.dll, D3DImm.dll, and D3D8.dll to <path-to-game>, again where InitialD.exe resides.
Open dgVoodooCpl.exe.
Make sure the Config folder / Running instance is set to <path-to-game>, it may already be there by default.
In the General tab, set Adapter(s) to use / enable to your current graphics card, Appearance to Full Screen, and Scaling mode to either Stretched, keep Aspect Ratio or Stretched, 4:3 Aspect Ratio.
In the DirectX tab, make sure Disable and passthru to real DirectX is unchecked, and set Resolution to Max. You can uncheck dgVoodoo Watermark if you wish.
Optional: under Texturing, set Filtering to Force anisotropic 16x and set Antialiasing (MSAA) to 8x to enable anisotropic filtering and antialiasing respectively.
Click Apply and exit the program.

Play in Borderless Windowed mode
Download and install 3D-Analyze. Launch 3D-Analyze. In 3D-Analyze, click the SELECT button and choose `<path-to-game>\InitialD.exe` Check "force windowed mode". Click the RUN button.

Control options.

Fix button assignment
Download and run XInput Plus. Set the "Target Program" to `InitialD.exe`. Go to "DirectInput" and check "Enable DirectInput Output". Assign LT/RT to Button 11/12. Click Apply, this will install DLL files in the installation folder.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 500 MHz	Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	375 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	64 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 8.1 Compliant Sound Card
Other	4X CD-ROM Drive	Wheel/Joystick or other game controller

↑ ^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).