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True Crime: Streets of LA

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True Crime: Streets of LA
True Crime: Streets of LA cover
Developers
Luxoflux
Windows LTI Gray Matter
macOS (OS X) Aspyr Media
Publishers
Activision
OS X Aspyr Media
Release dates
Windows May 14, 2004
macOS (OS X) March 1, 2005
True Crime: Streets of LA guide on StrategyWiki
True Crime: Streets of LA on MobyGames
True Crime: Streets of LA on Wikipedia

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.
GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).
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Key points

Suffers from unfixable audio issues, bad audio quality, popping, low, or completely broken audio. No fix is available.[citation needed]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc v3 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Retail
DRM details are not known
macOS (OS X)
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename GrayMatr.bik, intro.bik and intro2.bik in <path-to-game>/Movies.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\TrueCrime.ini[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)

Video settings

Graphics Options Menu
Graphics Options Menu

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio Options Menu
Audio Options Menu

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Only available in the Russian retail version.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Issues fixed

Weirdly stretched textures

Use ENBSeries DX8 to DX9 Convertor[citation needed]
  1. Download ENBSeries DX8 to DX9 Convertor.
  2. Open the downloaded zip and copy d3d8.dll and enbconvertor.ini to the installation folder.
Use WineD3D for Windows[citation needed]
  1. Download WineD3D for Windows.
  2. Open the downloaded zip and copy d3d8.dll, libwine.dll, and wined3d.dll to the installation folder.

Notes

This method might significantly decrease game performance.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.3 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0b compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.2.8
Processor (CPU) PowerPC G4 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce2 MX
ATI Radeon 8500

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. 2.0 2.1 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