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Tony Hawk's Underground

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Tony Hawk's Underground
Tony Hawk's Underground cover
Developers
Neversoft
Windows Beenox Shift
Publishers
Activision
Release dates
Windows 2004
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
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Key points

Random Soundtrack options have always the same music order by default (can be fixed with the ThirteenAG's widescreen fix).
Port of the superior Xbox version

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
Australia and New Zealand only.
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions:
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Game\Data\movies\bik\
  2. Delete, rename, or move: ATVI.bik, Beenox.bik, intro.bik, and NSlogo.bik

Modern Windows Compatibility and Online Play

Replace script files with patched ones[3]
  1. Replace THUG.exe and add patch.dll in the "Game" folder from thmods

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Game\Save\[Note 2]

Video settings

Launcher - Video Settings
Launcher - Video Settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Launcher - Keyboard Settings
Launcher - Keyboard Settings
Launcher - Controller Settings
Launcher - Controller Settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio Settings
Audio Settings

Template:Audio settings

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Versus
Horizontal or vertical split-screen.
LAN play
8
Online play
8 GameSpy services have been shut down;[4] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Issues fixed

Windows 7/8/8.1 Compatibility

Windows update issue[citation needed]
  1. Delete Windows Update KB3086255 if installed to be able to run the game or use the Windows 10 patch

Stuttering/hitching

Move to C: drive[citation needed]
  1. If the game is on a drive other than C:, try moving it to C:

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Processor (CPU) Pentium III 800 MHz or Athlon 800 MHz or higher processor
System memory (RAM) 256 MB of RAM
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.5 GB of uncompressed hard disk space (plus 200 MB for the Windows swap file)
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA
  • All NVIDIA GeForce 2 series
  • All NVIDIA GeForce 3/Ti series
  • All NVIDIA GeForce 4 series
  • All NVIDIA GeForce FX series
  • NVIDIA GeForce 6800

ATI

  • ATI Radeon 7500
  • ATI Radeon 8500
  • ATI Radeon 9000
  • ATI Radeon 9600
  • ATI Radeon 9800
  • Matrox Parhelia
    32 MB of VRAM
    DirectX 9.0c compatible

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]
  2. 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