Scrapland

American McGee Presents: Scrapland

Developers
	MercurySteam
Publishers
	Enlight Software
Engines
	Mercury Engine
Release dates
Windows	November 4, 2004
Reception
Metacritic	72
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Racing
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	Scrapland

Scrapland
Scrapland	2004
Scrapland Remastered	2021

Warnings

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

Scrapland is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action and racing game in the Scrapland series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		StarForce 3.4.50.01 DRM.
GamersGate (unavailable)

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

This game is no longer available digitally.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
Go to <path-to-game>\Video\. Delete or rename Enlight.vds, Mauretania.vds, MSE.vds, and MSE-Short.vds.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Scrap.cfg

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\

Video

Video Settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Use Scrapland Aspect Ratio Selector.
Multi-monitor			Use Scrapland Aspect Ratio Selector.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 8x. See Force anisotropic filtering.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Field of view (FOV)

Change gunship FOV[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder. Edit Scrap.cfg. Change the value of HiRacerFov (terminal velocity). Change the value of LoRacerFov (when stationary). Save the file and launch the game.

Windowed

Enable windowed[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder. Edit Scrap.cfg. Change the value of FullScreen from 1 to 0. Save the file and launch the game. Modify any video setting to fix the resolution.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Force MSAA
Download and run Nvidia Profile Inspector. Create new profile for the game. Add Scrap.exe to the profile. Set Antialiasing compatibility to 0x000D02C4. Set Antialiasing mode to Override any application setting. Set Antialiasing setting to Multisampling (2x, 4x, 8x). Apply changes.

SMAA

SMAA Anti-Aliasing with SweetFX[citation needed]
Download this archive. Extract the contents of "Scrapland" folder to location of Scrapland.exe

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		No mouse acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

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

Audio

Audio Settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German
Hungarian				Local retail version only.
Polish				Local retail version only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Cutscenes don't play

Use compatibility mode[citation needed]
Set the game executable to Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1
Shader Model support	1.4

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	FMOD

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98 SE, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1 GHz		Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB		512 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	1.7 GB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible		128 MB of VRAM