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Revision as of 00:37, 2 December 2021

Peter Jackson's King Kong
Peter Jackson's King Kong cover
Developers
Ubisoft Montpellier
Publishers
Ubisoft
Poland Cenega
Russia Buka Entertainment
Engines
Jade
Release dates
Windows November 17, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 77
IGDB 80
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Brawler, Shooter, Platform
Art styles Realistic
Themes Prehistoric, Supernatural
Series King Kong
Peter Jackson's King Kong on HowLongToBeat
Peter Jackson's King Kong on IGDB
Peter Jackson's King Kong guide on StrategyWiki
Peter Jackson's King Kong on MobyGames
Peter Jackson's King Kong on Wikipedia
King Kong
King Kong 2: Yomigaeru Densetsu 1986
Peter Jackson's King Kong 2005
Peter Jackson's King Kong Gamer's Edition 2005

Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Peter Jackson's King Kong is a singleplayer first-person and third-person action, brawler, shooter and platform game in the King Kong series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3.6.10.06 DRM[Note 1] (removed with WIFI_Darth_Maul's Fix)
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Version differences

This standard version is a PlayStation 2 port. It uses StarForce DRM and is only playable on Windows 8 and later with WIFIDarthMaul's fix which removes the DRM and certain registry dependencies.
The Gamer's Edition is an enhanced PC port featuring all the visual features from the Xbox 360 version like high resolution textures and higher quality 3D models. It was released DRM free.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename files[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\video\.
  2. Delete or rename mov1.BIK, mov2.BIK, mov3.BIK and mov4.BIK.

WIFIDarthMaul's fix

Removes the DRM making it possible to play the game on modern systems.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ubisoft\KingKong\

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\KingKong.sav[Note 2]

Video

Settings application - graphics settings.
Settings application - graphics settings.
Settings application - advanced settings.
Settings application - advanced settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Game supports 16:9 resolutions (16:9 aspect ratio must be selected in in-game options menu to prevent stretching), but the FOV is Vert- and additionally the image is letterboxed.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Vert-.
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Up to 8x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
No option to disable.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High FPS cause NPC script bugs and other problems. Cap the frame rate to 60 FPS to fix.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Settings application - Jack controls.
Settings application - Jack controls.
Settings application - King Kong controls.
Settings application - King Kong controls.

Audio

Settings application - Sound settings.
Settings application - Sound settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
May require DirectSound 3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 3.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Polish retail version only.
Russian
Russian retail version only.
Spanish
Swedish

Issues fixed

King Kong not properly installed

Instructions[4]
  1. Install WIFI_Darth_Maul's fix (this removes InstallPath registry dependency).

High frame rate Issues

High frame rates will cause NPC scripting will break in certain areas, it will break the screen when the player takes damage and King Kong will not be able to lift pillars off blocked doors preventing further progress.
Instructions[3]
  1. Use RivaTuner Statistics Server to limit framerate to 60 FPS.
Alternative[citation needed]
  1. Use d3d8to9 (Only Direct3D 8 mode), and set monitor to 60 Hz.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1, 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 3
ATI Radeon 8500
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8.1 compatible
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but are not supported.
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX series are not supported.


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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).

References