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Revision as of 02:10, 30 November 2021

The Punisher
The Punisher cover
Developers
Volition
Publishers
THQ
Russobit-M
Engines
CTG[1]
Release dates
Windows January 16, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 67
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres TPS
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, North America
Series The Punisher
The Punisher (2005) on HowLongToBeat
The Punisher (2005) on IGDB
The Punisher (2005) guide on StrategyWiki
The Punisher (2005) on MobyGames
The Punisher (2005) on Wikipedia
The Punisher
Subseries of Marvel
The Punisher 1990
The Punisher (2005) 2005

The Punisher (2005) is a singleplayer third-person TPS game in the The Punisher series.

All versions of the game have the same worldwide censorship.[2]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 5 DRM disc check
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro videos[citation needed]
  1. Install The Punisher Widescreen Fix.
  2. Open ThePunisher.WidescreenFix.ini.
  3. Change SkipIntro = 0 to SkipIntro = 1.

The Punisher Gore Patch

Removes censorship from the game[citation needed]
Adds gore as well as blood effect previously removed from the game during development.
Removes "black and white" filter from interrogations.
Compatible with both US and UK versions of the game. All European versions of the game are compatible with the UK version of the patch.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\profiles\[Note 1]

Video

Widescreen resolution

Use The Punisher Widescreen Fix[citation needed]
To change the FOV, open ThePunisher.WidescreenFix.ini and increase the FOVFactor value.
To run in windowed mode, create wndmode.ini in the installation folder.
To change the FPS limit, open d3d8.ini and modify the FPSLimit value.
Some elements like HUDs and menus could look very tiny in high resolutions.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, Music, Voice.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation.
Russian
Spanish
Polish
retail only, download.

Issues fixed

Interrogations and aiming issues

Use ThirteenAG's fix
  • Copy the content of the archive to the game's install folder.
Limit the Framerate to 60FPS[citation needed]
Use d3d8to9 wrapper[citation needed]
Use this method only if not already using ThirteenAG's fix and do not intend to play the game in widescreen.
  1. Download d3d8to9.
  2. Copy D3D8.DLL to the game install directory.
  3. Set monitor refresh rate to 60 Hz

Incorrect black levels

Black level correction with ReShade[citation needed]
  1. Download and install dgVoodoo 2 for this game.
  2. Download the latest version of ReShade and run the ReShade Setup program.
  3. Click Select game, then select pun.exe found in <path-to-game>.
  4. Delete d3d9.dll
  5. Select Direct3D 9 as the rendering API.
  6. Allow to download shaders/effects, click "uncheck all" and select only Levels.fx.
  7. Run the game, press Home/Pos1 to enter the configuration menu and follow the tutorial to create a new config.
  8. Enable Levels.fx and change the range to 15-255.
  9. In the Settings tab, under Usage Mode select Performance Mode.
  10. Press Home/Pos1 to exit the configuration menu.

Stuttering on HDD

Disable APM[3]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Hardware T&L compatible
64 MB of VRAM


Notes

  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).

References