Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Alias

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Alias
Alias cover
Developers
Acclaim Cheltenham
Publishers
Acclaim Entertainment
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
Windows June 14, 2004
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Stealth
Series Alias
Alias on MobyGames
Alias on Wikipedia
Alias
Alias: Underground 2002
Alias 2004

Alias is a singleplayer third-person stealth game in the Alias series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM v5 DRM.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Acclaim\Alias

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Acclaim Entertainment\Alias

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF entry. Files can be found here.
Multi-monitor
See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
See the WSGF entry.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
No frame rate cap. Frame rates higher than 60 FPS break the game.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Negative mouse acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
DualShock 4 and other non-XInput controllers need to have an XInput wrapper to work correctly with this game.
Full controller support
Although a GameSpot review claims that the camera controls can't be mapped to a gamepad [1], this is not the case as by default XInput devices have camera controls and other controller inputs already mapped.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
See controller support notes
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Videos don't play

Fix video issue[1]
  1. Open the Start menu, type in cmd and press Enter.
  2. Type in and enter: regsvr32 C:\Games\Alias\MultiVMR9.dll (change C:\Games\Alias\ to your game install path).

'Not enough space' error

At game startup you get the following message: "YOUR HARD DISK DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH SPACE TO SAVE GAMES AND OPTIONS. YOU NEED TO FREE 33 KBYTES."
Fix startup error[1]
  1. Make a text file.
  2. Copy the following code into it.
  3. For 64-bit OS:
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Acclaim]
    
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Acclaim\Alias]
    
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Acclaim\Alias\1.0]
    "ADMIN_RIGHTS"="You do not have administrator rights."
    "Installed Path"="C:\\Games\\Alias\\"
    "Language"="English"
    "NO_DISC"="Please insert Alias Disk2."
    "NO_DRIVE"="No CD-ROM/DVD drive found."
    "WRONG_DISC"="Please insert Alias Disk2."
  4. For 32-bit OS:
    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
    
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Acclaim]
    
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Acclaim\Alias]
    
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Acclaim\Alias\1.0]
    "ADMIN_RIGHTS"="You do not have administrator rights."
    "Installed Path"="C:\\Games\\Alias\\"
    "Language"="English"
    "NO_DISC"="Please insert Alias Disk2."
    "NO_DRIVE"="No CD-ROM/DVD drive found."
    "WRONG_DISC"="Please insert Alias Disk2."
  5. Change the following settings to your own:
    • "Installed Path"="C:\\Games\\Alias\\"
    • "Language"="English" (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish)
  6. Save it as a .reg file.
  7. Run it and merge it.

"DirectInput problem detected - There is a problem with your DirectInput registry settings"

Install the Microsoft DirectInput Mapper

High FPS Issues

Occurs due to script breaking at fps higher than 60fps
Limit the Framerate to 60FPS[citation needed]
Vsync (Enabled by default) not working on Windows10
Vsync is enabled by default, but in Windows 10 it does not work because the Vsync of DirectX 8 in Windows 10 is broken.
  1. Download the d3d8to9.
  2. Copy D3D8.DLL from the folder to the game install directory and set the monitor refresh rate to 60 Hz.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
2D

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1, 9
Shader Model support 1.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, ME, 2000, 98SE
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz Intel Pentium 4
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU) Hardware Vertex and Pixel Shaders V1.1
DirectX 8.1 compatible


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Alias | WSGF - last accessed on 2017-03-13