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Stranglehold

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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
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Stranglehold on Wikipedia
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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).
Both the Map Pack DLC, and Collector's Edition was not released for PC.
Although on the case it is printed 'Games for Windows', it 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]

Delete or rename 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 and intro_c0010_bink.bik (may contain FMV footage not seen in the game) in <path-to-game>\StrangleholdGame\Movies

A brief Midway video is still present.

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

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Display options
Stranglehold v1.0 WSGF Report

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Widescreen resolution

Set custom resolution and FOV[4][5]
  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.

Notes

FOV changers only support v1.0 of the game; v1.1 is not supported.

Input settings

Template:Input 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 shutdown.

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