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


Warning for game developers: PCGamingWiki staff members will only ever reach out to you using the official press@pcgamingwiki.com mail address.
Be aware of scammers claiming to be representatives or affiliates of PCGamingWiki who promise a PCGW page for a game key.

Crime Life: Gang Wars

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Crime Life: Gang Wars
Crime Life: Gang Wars cover
Developers
Hothouse Creations
Publishers
Konami
Release dates
Windows December 1, 2005
Reception
IGDB 45
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person, Bird's-eye view
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Brawler, Open world
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, North America
Crime Life: Gang Wars on IGDB
Crime Life: Gang Wars on MobyGames
Crime Life: Gang Wars on Wikipedia

Key points

Suffers from poor performance. See DXVK to fix it.

Crime Life: Gang Wars is a singleplayer third-person and bird's-eye view action, brawler and open world game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM v7 DRM.
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\movies\binkpc
  2. Delete or rename cineintro.bik and Nvidia_Logo.bik.

DXVK

A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11 intended for allowing 3D applications to run on Linux.
Compatible on all operating systems as long as the GPU supports Vulkan.
Fixes all performance problems with Crime Life: Gang Wars, maintaining a consistent frame-rate throughout.
DXVK
  1. Download DXVK here.
  2. Extract the contents of the dxvk-*.tar.gz file with 7zip or WinRAR.
  3. Copy d3d9.dll from the x32 folder and paste it in the game's installation folder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\CrimeLife\

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\CrimeLife\Profiles\

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
SFX, music, speech/FMV and ambient.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.2 GHz or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 2
ATI Radeon 7500 series
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Nvidia GeForce 8 series isn't supported


References