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Contents 1 Availability 2 Essential improvements 2.1 Skip intro videos 3 Game data 3.1 Configuration file(s) location 3.2 Save game data location 4 Video 4.1 Field of view (FOV) 4.2 Windowed 5 Input 6 Audio 6.1 Localizations 7 Other information 7.1 API 8 System requirements 9 Notes 10 References

Warnings

StarForce DRM may not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected releases).

General information

Manual

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Edit init.cfg^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\Data\Scripts\` Open `init.cfg` with a text editor. Change `r.showlogos 1` to `r.showlogos 0` Save the changes.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\config.cfg^{[Note 1]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Data\Save\^{[Note 1]}

Video settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See the WSGF topic.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)	See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed	Borderless only. See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Antialiasing disables shadows. Use your graphics card's program settings and enable it through there if you wish to keep shadows.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	Capped at 500 fps.
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Use render_fov command^{[citation needed]}
Open console by pressing `~`. Type in `render_fov X` where X your desired horizontal FOV value (e.g. `render_fov 90`).

Edit init.cfg^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\Data\Scripts\` Open `init.cfg` with a text editor. Change `r.windowed 0` to `r.windowed 1` Save the changes. Notes The window is locked to the top-left corner of the screen.

Edit init.cfg^{[citation needed]}

Notes

The window is locked to the top-left corner of the screen.

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output. May require DirectSound 3D restoration software..
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Alt-tabbing even in windowed mode causes the game to minimize (and mutes the sound).
EAX support		EAX 4.0^[1]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon @ 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	3 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce FX AMD Radeon 7600 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c 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).