Marine Sharpshooter 4: Locked and Loaded

Marine Sharpshooter 4: Locked and Loaded

Developers
	Groove Games
Publishers
North America	Groove Games
Europe	City Interactive
Russia	1C Company
Engines
	Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows	July 28, 2008
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles	Realistic
Series	Marine Sharpshooter

Marine Sharpshooter
CTU: Marine Sharpshooter	2003
Marine Sharpshooter II: Jungle Warfare	2004
Marine Sharpshooter 3	2007
Marine Sharpshooter 4: Locked and Loaded	2008

Marine Sharpshooter 4: Locked and Loaded is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game in the Marine Sharpshooter series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\System\*.ini

MS4.ini contains general settings.

User.ini contains camera FOV, mouse, keyboard/controller bindings and other settings.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows

Video

Video Settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor		See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		90° by default. See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter. See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Off by default. To turn it on, see Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		See Run the game at the screen's refresh rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Widescreen resolution

Custom resolutions can be set manually. Note that for the first two options, the image is Vert-, and FOV should be increased to compensate; HUD is correct in-game but menus remain stretched.

Set custom resolution in-game
While in game, open the console with ç. Enter setres XXXXxYYYY (for example setres 1920x1080).

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open MS4.ini. Go to the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] section. Set FullscreenViewportX and FullscreenViewportY to the desired resolution.

Use the Widescreen Fix
Notes Weapon and camera FOV are fixed both during gameplay and in-engine cutscenes. HUD and menus are stretched.

Field of view (FOV)

To maintain identical vertical FOV to the 4:3 FOV at 16:9 resolutions, use 106. At 21:9 resolutions, use 121.

Weapon FOV stays the same.

Set custom FOV in-game
While in game, open the console with ç. Enter fov x (for example fov 100).

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open User.ini. Change the following lines to the desired value: DesiredFOV=90.000000 DefaultFOV=90.000000 Notes Game could start to randomly reset those values. If so, edit those values in <path-to-game>\System\DefUser.ini too.

Windowed

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open MS4.ini. Find the section [WinDrv.WindowsClient]. In that section, find an entry WindowedViewportX= and set its value to your desired window width. In that section, find an entry WindowedViewportY= and set its value to your desired window height. Set StartupFullscreen= to False to start the game in windowed mode.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open MS4.ini. Change the line LevelOfAnisotropy=1 to any value desired (between 1 and 16).

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open MS4.ini. Change the line UseVSync=False to UseVSync=True.

Input

Control Settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Acceleration is off by default. To turn it on, see Mouse acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity		Minimum of 1 and max of 25. For higher than 25 or lower than 1, see Mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Set UseJoystick=True in MS4.ini under [WinDrv.WindowsClient].
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Edit in User.ini.
Controller sensitivity		Edit in User.ini.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Edit in User.ini.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Mouse acceleration

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open User.ini. Change the line MouseAccelThreshold=0 to the desired value. Notes [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis or adjusting sensitivity.

Mouse sensitivity

[Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis or adjusting sensitivity.

Set custom mouse sensitivity in-game
While in game, open the console with ç. Enter setsensitivity XXXXxYYYY (for example setsensitivity 5).

Edit ini file
Open User.ini. Change the line MouseSensitivity= to the desired value.

Jerky/Uneven mouse movement

Edit ini files

Launch the game at least once then close it. Open User.ini. Go to the following lines and change 2.0 to 0.1: MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=2.0 MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=2.0 Change the line MouseSmoothingMode= to 1 and MouseSamplingTime= to: 0.008 for 125 Hz polling rate 0.004 for 250 Hz polling rate 0.002 for 500 Hz polling rate 0.001 for 1000 Hz polling rate Change the line MouseSensitivity= to 50 in User.ini (more or less, if needed to adjust). Open MS4.ini. Go to the [D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice] section and change ReduceMouseLag= to False. Notes Opening the control settings in-game to adjust mouse sensitivity will reset the value to 10 or below, making aiming way too slow.

Audio

Audio Settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and SFX sliders.
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software or OpenAL. See Surround sound.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		EAX 3.0.
Royalty free audio

Surround sound

By default, the game outputs to stereo on modern versions of Windows. This forces the game to use the system's OpenAL device as output and restore surround sound.

Forcing the game to use the system's OpenAL device may lead to audio dropouts, missing and substituted audio samples.

Restore surround sound
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open MS4.ini. Set Use3DSound=True and UseDefaultDriver=False, and save.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian

Issues fixed

Poor performance on the DX8 renderer on Windows 8/8.1/10/11

Use dgVoodoo 2.

Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper
Download d3d8.dll from here. Place it in <path-to-game>\System.

Run the game at the screen's refresh rate

Default refresh rate is 60 Hz. This does not limit FPS, but may set the monitor's refresh rate to 100 Hz, which may result in screen tearing on a 120 Hz or 144 Hz monitor.

Set fullscreen refresh rate
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open MS4.ini. Find the line DesiredRefreshRate=60. Change the value to match the monitor's refresh rate. Notes Modifying any video options will undo the custom refresh rate.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8, 9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP, Vista		2000, XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Pentium 4 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon 2.0 GHz		Pentium 4 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB		512 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	1.5 GB		2 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600 ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible		Nvidia GeForce 5, 6, 7 ATI Radeon X 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9-compatible		DirectX 9-compatible with Dolby Digital Audio support