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Virtua Cop

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Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop cover
Developers
Sega AM2
Publishers
Sega
Release dates
Windows October 1996
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Arcade, Rail shooter
Series Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop on IGDB
Virtua Cop guide on StrategyWiki
Virtua Cop on MobyGames
Virtua Cop on Wikipedia
Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop 1996
Virtua Cop 2 1997

Key Point

Also known as Virtua Squad in United States
Setup will install the NV1 version (incompatible with Direct X) if a Nvidia graphic card is detected. Use NATIVE.EXE instead to install the game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Disc is needed as it contains all music tracks
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %WINDIR%\VCOP.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 640x480 is available
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
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)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Locked at 30 FPS.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
LAN play
2 Co-op
Accessed by pressing F9 (except during intro logos)
Online play

Issues fixed

The code execution cannot proceed because DPLAY.dll was not found

Follow the instructions here[1]

DirectDraw Init FAILED SetDisplayMode

Use dgVoodoo 2[1]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 3 Also supports nVidia NV1 3D API
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 60 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 Colors, SVGA compatible
DirectX 3 compatible
Sound (audio device) Sound Blaster 16 compatible
Other 2x Speed CD Drive, Keyboard/Joypad or joystick


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

  1. 1.0 1.1 Verified by User:Blackbird on 2020-04-06