Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run

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Warnings

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

Key points

No in-game keyboard/gamepad configurations and require manually editing through the config files.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		English copies use ProtectDISC Software DRM, and Russian copies use StarForce 5 DRM^{[Note 1]}.

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

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\CONFIG\^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\savegame\^{[Note 2]}

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Stretched from 4:3. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution, menus and UI elements do not scale and become small.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Capped at 30 FPS. See Frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

An unknown issue causes the in-game frame rate to run at a low 22-25 FPS rather than the intended 30 FPS cap.

Use Special K

Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide.
Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created.
Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\wspy3d.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you used.
Change TargetFPS=0.0 to TargetFPS=30.0 under [Render.FrameRate] (setting TargetFPS higher than 30 won't increase the FPS).
Save the file and launch the game.

Hex edit the launcher

The following fix may require a No-CD patch.

Open wspy3D.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
Press Ctrl+F, change the data type to hex values and search for AB AA AA 3F.
Replace AB AA AA 3F with 39 8E E3 3F for 16:9 (needs testing on aspect ratios wider than 16:9).
Save the file and set the desired resolution in the launcher.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Not in-game, manually edit `keyboard.cfg` inside `CONFIG` folder.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		DirectInput.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Not in-game, manually edit `joystick.cfg` inside `CONFIG` folder.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

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

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP SP2
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon X1300 Nvidia GeForce 6600 DirectX 9.0c compatible

↑ Version 5.0 of StarForce DRM requires a manual driver update on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11 to function properly.^[1]^[2] The driver can be updated using SFUPDATE.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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).