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Revision as of 03:29, 31 January 2021

The Great Escape (2003)
The Great Escape (2003) cover
Developers
Pivotal Games
Publishers
SCi Games
Gotham Games
Release dates
Windows July 22, 2003

The Great Escape (2003) is a game.

Availability

A demo is also available.
Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Gotham Games\The Great Escape\Device Settings

Save game data location

System Location
Windows


Video

Launcher video settings.
Launcher video settings.
In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Change ResolutionIndex in configuration files location
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See "Widescreen resolution" above
4K Ultra HD
See "Widescreen resolution" above
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Enable by default (tested by d3d8to9 on windows10)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate cap, but very high framerates will cause hanging animations and other glitches while trying to fall, jump or climb. Set refresh rate to 60 or 120 Hz to solve.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Edit registry entries[citation needed]
  1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Gotham Games\The Great Escape\Device Settings.
  2. Edit the entry ResolutionIndex and change the value to one of from a list below (decimal):
    • 16 - 1440×900
    • 17 - 1600×900
    • 18 - 1680×1050
    • 19 - 1920×1080


Notes

Editing graphical settings in the launcher will revert the changes.
Values higher than 19 will result in resolutions higher than 1920×1080.
Not all of these values have been tested.
On some AMD graphics cards, the resolution will automatically revert to 800×600 on startup.


Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
French
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Vsync (Enable by default) not working on Windows10

  1. Download [1] d3d8to9.
  2. Copy D3D8.DLL to the game install directory.


Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Windows 98/Me/XP
Processor (CPU) Pentium 3 933
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.6 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 8 compliant


References