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Revision as of 00:51, 1 December 2019

John Woo Presents Stranglehold
John Woo Presents Stranglehold cover
Developers
Midway Chicago
Publishers
Midway Games
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows September 18, 2007
Stranglehold on Wikipedia

Key points

Online servers have been shut down.

General information

MobyGames entry
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 7 DRM disc check.
Polish copies use SafeDisc v4.85 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
The Map Pack DLC and Collector's Edition were not released for PC.
Although "Games for Windows" is printed on the case, the game does not use the Games for Windows Live service.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch v1.1 updates the game to the latest version.

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename files[3]
  1. Navigate to <path-to-game>\StrangleholdGame\Movies
  2. Delete or rename the following files:
intro_Legal_Euro.bik
intro_Legal_US.bik
intro_Logo_Midway_HD.bik
intro_Logo_Shared.bik
intro_Logo_TigerHill_HD.bik
intro_Logo_Unreal.bik
intro_c0010_bink.bik
A brief Midway video is still present.
intro_c0010_bink.bik may contain FMV footage not seen in the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Stranglehold\

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.

Video settings

Video options.
Video options.

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Use Stranglehold HOR+ FOV fix to unlock all resolutions and adjust FOV[4]
Set custom resolution and FOV (v1.0)[5][6]
  1. Add the -ResX=X -ResY=Y command line arguments.
  2. Change X and Y after = to the desired resolution width and height respectively.
  3. Use Widescreen Fixer or Stranglehold FOV Hack to fix the FOV in game version 1.0.

Input settings

Keyboard settings.
Keyboard settings.
Input settings, only accessible during gameplay.
Input settings, only accessible during gameplay.

Template:Input settings

Y-axis mouse sensitivity is significantly lower than x-axis, and may need to be adjusted to compensate.[7][8]

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Stranglehold.
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see important hints in the vorpx forum profile introduction.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
Online servers have been shut down.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP SP2, Vista
Processor (CPU) Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 15 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7800
ATI Radeon X1300

Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]

References

  1. Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  2. Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  3. Verified by User:Mars icecream on 2019-11
    Verified for the GOG version (1.1, 31068)
  4. Verified by User:Keith on 2019-11-29
  5. Stranglehold v1.0 | WSGF
  6. Stranglehold v1.1 | WSGF
  7. PC port quality of John Woo's "Stranglehold" - last accessed on 2019-11-29
    "Vertical sensitivity is significantly lower."
  8. Verified by User:Andytizer on 2019-11-29
    Raising y-axis mouse sensitivity to much higher than x-axis gave an adequate playing experience.