The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

The Chronicles of Riddick
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay	2004
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena	2009

Key points

Not available digitally.

A visually enhanced remake is included with The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 5 DRM.

This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\Content\Videos` Delete or rename `Intro.ogg`, `Sbz.ogg`, `Tigon.ogg`, `universal_ntsc.ogg`, `vug_new.ogg` and `logo_mixed.ogg`.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Environment.cfg^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\Content\User.cfg^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\Content\Save\<user-id>\_profile^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Content\Save\^{[Note 1]} %USERPROFILE%\Starbreeze\Riddick\Content\Save\

Video settings

Video settings.

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Anti-aliasing (AA)

Enable MSAA through the in-game console^[1]

Go to <path-to-game>.
Open Environment.cfg.
Add this line GL_ADVPIXELFORMAT=1.
Launch the game.
Open console with Ctrl+Alt+~.
Type vmultisampletaps x where x is the value of AA (2, 4, or 8).

Notes

You need to enable AA through the console every time you launch the game.

Input settings

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Audio settings

Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
Italian
German
Spanish				Official translation.
Spanish				Fan translation that fixes mistranslations.

Issues fixed

Crash on startup

There is an OpenGL-related crash after starting the program. For those with Nvidia hardware, this can be fixed by downloading Nvidia Inspector and setting the Extension Limit to 0x00001B58. This will also allow you to choose 'Shader Model 2.0++', which is otherwise locked out. For AMD users there is no known fix right now

Updating to v1.1 should allow newer video cards with openGL > 1.5 to run the game.

Texture flickering when using Eyeshine

When playing with "Shader Model 2.0++", texture flickering occurs in lit areas while using the "Eyeshine" mechanic in-game. This can be fixed by simply changing the "Shader Model" to something else in the video settings.

Twitchy mouse movement

If you use a higher polling rate than 125 Hz you will get some twitchy mouse movement. The only 2 known workarounds is to use 125 Hz polling rate or plug in a controller and use that to play.^{[citation needed]}

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL	1.5
Shader Model support	1.0, 1.1, 1.4, 2.0, 2.0 ++ with stencil soft shadows

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz AMD equivalent	Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2500+
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3.7 GB	4.4 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 8500 64 MB of VRAM OpenGL 1.5 compatible	Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 ATI Radeon 9700

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 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

↑ Enable AntiAliasing in The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 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).

[2] Enable AntiAliasing in The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

[Note 1]

[1]

Developers

	Starbreeze Studios
	Tigon Studios
Publishers
	Vivendi Universal Games
Release dates
Windows	December 3, 2004