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Peter Jackson's King Kong Gamer's Edition

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Peter Jackson's King Kong Gamer's Edition
Peter Jackson's King Kong Gamer's Edition cover
Developers
Ubisoft Montpellier
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
Jade
Release dates
Windows November 17, 2005
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Key points

Gamer's Edition is an enhanced PC port featuring all the visual features from the Xbox 360 version.

General information

MobyGames entry

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
Only available digitally and on some OEM discs.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename files[1]
  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 1]

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Enable windowed[2]
  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, just give it some time to load, it's only the loading screen that isn't being updated correctly.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Forcing MSAA or SSAA will cause major graphical issues, use post-processing AA methods instead.
Use injectSMAA[1]
  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.
Alternatively Reshade can also be used to force FXAA or SMAA.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
German
Italian
Spanish
Swedish
Norwegian

Issues fixed

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

The game can not be started directly using the KingKong8.exe.
Instructions[1]
  1. Run the game using the <path-to-game>\CheckApplication.exe or <path-to-game>\SettingsApplication.exe.
Alternative[2].
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix

King Kong not properly installed

Instructions[3]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix.

Notes

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, some enemy attacks will not be triggered, 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[1]
  1. Use RivaTuner Statistics Server to limit framerate to 60 FPS.
Alternative[1]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix.
  2. Edit d3d9.ini to limit framerate to 60 FPS.

Crashes on the "Chased by V-Rex" level

The game may crash after climbing the initial wall and following the river.
Limit framerate to 40 FPS[1]
  1. See instructions above and limit framerate to 40 FPS.

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 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows[4]
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 (3.0 GHz)
AMD 3000+
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 5.4 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI X1800
Nvidia 6800
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0C compatible
GPU with pixel shader 3.0 and vertex shader 3.0 support.

Notes

  1. ↑ 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