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Peter Jackson's King Kong

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Peter Jackson's King Kong
Peter Jackson's King Kong cover
Developers
Ubisoft Montpellier
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
Jade
Release dates
Windows November 17, 2005
Peter Jackson's King Kong on Wikipedia
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Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
King Kong
King Kong 2: Yomigaeru Densetsu 1986
Peter Jackson's King Kong 2005
Peter Jackson's King Kong Gamer's Edition 2005

General information

MobyGames entry

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].
Gamer's Edition is DRM-free.
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Version differences

The Gamer's Edition is an enhanced PC port featuring all the visual features from the Xbox 360 version. Only available digitally and on some OEM discs.

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.

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]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Enable windowed[3][4]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix.
  2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ubisoft\KingKong\{2C391F94-B8B9-4832-9C57-3AFC332CC037}\Basic video
  3. Change the WindowedMode value to 1.

Notes

If the game crashes during the intro videos, remove or delete them.
If the game stops responding during level loading screens, just give it some time to load, it's only the screen that isn't being updated correctly.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Force anti-aliasing[5]
  1. Download and run NVIDIA Profile Inspector.
  2. Search and open the King Kong profile.
  3. Add KingKong8.exe to the profile.
  4. Set Antialiasing compatibility to 0x000012C1.
  5. Set Antialiasing mode to Override.
  6. Set Antialiasing setting to desired AA (MSAA,TrSSAA,SGSSAA,HSAA).
  7. Apply changes.

Notes

Forcing MSAA or SSAA in the Gamer's Edition will cause major graphical issues.
Use injectSMAA[3]
  1. Download and extract injectSMAA.
  2. Copy the files from the d3d9 folder to the game installation folder.
  3. Open injector.ini to change the settings.

Notes

ThirteenAG's fix uses its own d3d9.dll to limit the framerate, use RivaTuner Statistics Server instead to avoid conflicts.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

"No BigFile Specified as First .exe Argument" error message on startup

Install ThirteenAG's fix[4]

King Kong not properly installed

Install ThirteenAG's fix[6]
This removes "InstallPath" registry dependency.

Crashes after loading screens or using Alt+Tab

Run game in a window[citation needed]

See Windowed.

Game breaking bugs at high frame rate

High frame rates will cause some enemies to freeze in one spot, break NPC scripting in certain areas, and disable the screen when the player takes damage.
Install ThirteenAG's fix[citation needed]
Edit d3d9.ini to set a custom frame rate limit.

Crashes on the "Chased by V-Rex" level

The game may crash after climbing the initial wall and following the river.
Lower frame rate cap[citation needed]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix.
  2. Edit d3d9.ini.
  3. Set FPSLimit to 40.

Objects have broken geometry or no textures

Hide untextured objects[citation needed]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix.
  2. Open KingKong.WidescreenFix.ini.
  3. Change HideUntexturedObjects = 0 to HideUntexturedObjects = 1.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1, 9 8.1 is for the retail release only, 9 supports both versions.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Retail Edition
Windows[7]
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
Intel Pentium III		 Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible 		128 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8.1 compatible
Gamer's Edition
Windows[7]
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) AMD Athlon 3.0 GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon X1800
Nvidia GeForce 6800
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9.0c compatible, EAX 3.0

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