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Screamer 4x4
Screamer 4x4 cover
Developers
Clever's Games
Publishers
Virgin Interactive
Release dates
Windows December 4, 2000
Screamer 4x4 on MobyGames
Screamer 4x4 on Wikipedia
Screamer
Screamer 1995
Screamer 2 1996
Screamer Rally 1997
Screamer 4x4 2000

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
A demo is available here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saved[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
4
Online play
4

Issues fixed

Installer doesn't work (hangs)

Analyze wait chain
  1. Open Task Manager.
  2. Find 32-bit Setup Launcher (32-bit) on the list and expand it.
  3. Right-click on every child object that belongs to the process and click on "Go to details".
  4. In the Details tab, right-click on the highlighted element and click on "Analyse Wait Chain".
  5. If there are elements on the list, select them and kill the process.

Notes:

Most common programs causing issues are logitechg_discord.exe (Discord applet for Logitech Gaming Software) and nvcontainer.exe (part of Nvidia Experience).

Game freezes during loading / runs too fast(D3D Rendering)

Set core affinity to a single core[citation needed]
Select Glide or OpenGL rendering in the launcher[citation needed]

Notes

In order to run a game using Glide, you're going to need Glide wrapper. See nGlide.

Crash on Startup

Analyse wait chain[1][2]
  1. Open Task Manager.
  2. Find Screamer4x4_gl.exe or Screamer4x4_glide.exe or Screamer4x4_d3d.exe on the list and expand it.
  3. Right-click on every child object that belongs to the process and click on "Go to details".
  4. In the Details tab, right-click on the highlighted element and click on "Analyse Wait Chain".
  5. If there are elements on the list, select them and kill the process.

Notes:

Most common programs causing issues are logitechg_discord.exe (Discord applet for Logitech Gaming Software),Setpoint.exe (program of Logitech) and nvcontainer.exe (part of Nvidia Experience).
If you do not want to do this process every time you start the game, you must simply deactivate the conflicting process or uninstall the program from the conflicting process.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
OpenGL
Glide
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM

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

  1. Mega Man Legends Installation on Windows 10 - last accessed on 2021-03-24
  2. Revolution (2002) will not install - last accessed on 2021-03-24