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Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure

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Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
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Developers
The Collective, Inc.
Steam General Arcade
Publishers
Atari
Steam Devolver Digital
Engines
Slayer
Release dates
Windows February 14, 2006
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Key points

Can't change keybindings, nor controller bindings in-game.
Some menu options can't be applied such as changing the language of the game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Version differences

Steam release is an updated version featuring widescreen resolutions, XInput controller support and compatibility fixes for modern machines.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open default_pc.cfg.
  3. Change playlicensemovie = 1 to playlicensemovie = 0.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\engine\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260190/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %PUBLIC%\Documents\getting up - contents under pressure\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260190/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Field of view (FOV)

Change FOV[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open vars_pc.cfg.
  3. Change defaultfov=65 to the desired value.

Windowed

Enable windowed[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open default_pc.cfg.
  3. Change fullscreen = 1 to fullscreen = 0.

High frame rate

Remove FPS cap[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open vars_pc.cfg.
  3. Change fpsLimit=60 and maxFPSLimit=60 to the desired value.

Input settings

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Remapping

Change keybinds[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open binds_pc.cfg.
  3. Keyboard controls are the top of the file. Controller controls are the lower two sections of the file.

Mouse sensitivity

This is to fix the insane mouse sensitivity to which there is no menu option to change it.
Mouse sensitivity[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\engine\
  2. Open vars_pc.cfg.
  3. Change mousespeed=0.50000 (found roughly half way down) to a desired value. 0.2 and 0.15 work well.
  4. Save the file.

Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
The Steam version is available in German even though the store page says otherwise.
Italian
The Steam version is available in Italian even though the store page says otherwise.

Changing the game's language

Edit default_pc.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\engine\
  2. Open default_pc.cfg.
  3. Change "language = os" to "language = [desired language]" (replace [desired language] with ru, ru or whatever abbreviation necessary)
  4. Save the file
Change the OS language[citation needed]

Issues fixed

Access Violation Exception errors

Change Windows Compatibility Mode to Windows XP Service Pack 3[citation needed]

Jump camera in "Subway Ride"

Cap the framerate to 30 for the duration of the level

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

Various engine options

Instructions[4][5]
  1. Go to Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure > Guides > Various engine options.
  2. Download Debug Patch to enable hidden DebugUI and Debug windows.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz 2.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible 		256 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) DirectX Compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] 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.[2]
  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).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References