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L.A. Noire

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L.A. Noire Box Art

L.A. Noire is a 2011 neo noir crime video game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games. It was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The game draws heavily from both the plot and aesthetic elements of film noir, stylistic films made popular in the 1940s and 1950s that share similar visual styles and themes including crime, sex, and moral ambiguity. The game uses a distinctive colouring-style, but in homage to film noir it includes the option to play the game in black-and-white. Various plot elements reference the major themes of gum-shoe detective and mobster stories such as Key Largo, Chinatown, The Untouchables, The Black Dahlia, and L.A. Confidential.

Troubleshooting

Slowdown, lag, or frame-rate issues

  • Run the LANLauncher.exe.
  • Click Options
  • Enter "-str" and/or "-npd" and/or "+jobs_numThreads 0" (without quotes, just the dash and the text with a space in between each command) in the command line field for single threaded renderer, which may improve performance or compatibility on some systems.

Endless launcher loop/crash after re-performing setup

In Windows Vista/7, it may be necessary to turn off UAC (User Account Control) and/or run Steam as an Admin.

Turn off UAC

  • Open Control Panel
  • Select User Accounts
  • Select 'Change User Account Control Settings'
  • Change the slider to Never Notify

For further information on User Account Control configuration, see: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/user-account-control

Running Steam as an Administrator

  • Locate the Steam Shortcut on your desktop or within your start menu.
  • Right Click on the shortcut and select 'Run as Administrator'

Command List

To use them, input the command line parameters directly into the Command Line field of the launcher. To access this, launch the game using LANLauncher and then access the Options menu.

Command Notes
windowed Run game in a window.
ignorefocus Don't pause the game if you alt-tab or click out of its window.
mousefree Allow mouse outside the game window. (Requires windowed mode).
str Enable single threaded renderer, which may improve performance or compatibility on some systems.
npd Disable the 'D3D_PUREDEVICE' flag from device creation. May help if you have graphics compatibility issues.
nosound Disable all sound.
L Change the language - use English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. E.g -L french
joysticktype Force a specific directinput controller type. Can be used to try different controller button layouts if your controller isn't specifically supported.