Urban Chaos

Key points

The game's source code has been released in 2017.

This article also applies to the demo.

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Publisher website

A demo containing an exclusive level is available here.

Delete or rename video files^[1]
Go to `<path-to-game>\Bink`. Delete or rename `Eidos.bik`, `logo24.bik` and `PCINTRO_withsound.bik`.

Game's launcher.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\`config.ini`^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/243060/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\saves\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/243060/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Set high frame rate^[1]

Raising the frame rate cap beyond 60 FPS will speed up the game.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French				Only available in the retail version.
Italian				Only available in the retail version.
Spanish				Open `config.ini` and change `lang_english.txt` to `lang_spanish.txt`.

`Alt`+`Tab ↹` to another window and back.

If using a GeForce card, disable Fast VSync.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Cutscenes	Bink Video

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 233 MHz	Intel Pentium 300 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	150 MB	400 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1a compatible

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/243060/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (243060) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.