DMZ: North Korea

DMZ: North Korea

Developers
	Jarhead Games
Publishers
	Vivendi Games
Engines
	Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows	2006
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, TPS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Asia, Contemporary

DMZ: North Korea is a singleplayer third-person action and TPS game.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\System\*ini

DMZNorthKorea.ini contains general settings.

User.ini contains camera FOV, mouse, keyboard/controller bindings and other settings.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\

Video

Video Settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor			See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen			See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD			See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		90° by default. See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter. See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Off by default. To turn it on, see Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		See Run the game at the screen's refresh rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open DMZNorthKorea.ini. Go to the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] section. Set FullscreenViewportX and FullscreenViewportY to the desired resolution. Notes Vert-: Image is cropped on widescreen resolutions, increase FOV to compensate, see Field of view (FOV). Menus and HUD are stretched.

Field of view (FOV)

Edit ini file

Launch the game at least once then close it. Open User.ini. Change the following lines to the desired value: DesiredFOV=90.000000 DefaultFOV=90.000000 Notes To maintain identical vertical FOV to the 4:3 FOV at 16:9 resolutions, use 106. At 21:9 resolutions, use 121. Cutscene FOV is increased as well. Game could start to randomly reset those values. If so, edit those values in <path-to-game>\System\DefUser.ini too.

Windowed

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open DMZNorthKorea.ini. Find the section [WinDrv.WindowsClient]. In that section, find an entry WindowedViewportX= and set its value to your desired window width. In that section, find an entry WindowedViewportY= and set its value to your desired window height. Set StartupFullscreen= to False to start the game in windowed mode.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open DMZNorthKorea.ini. Change the line LevelOfAnisotropy=1 to any value desired (between 1 and 16).

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open DMZNorthKorea.ini. Change the line UseVSync=False to UseVSync=True.

Input

Control Settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Acceleration is off by default. To turn it on, see Mouse acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity		Minimum of 1 and max of 25. For higher than 25 or lower than 1, see Mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Set UseJoystick=True in DMZNorthKorea.ini under [WinDrv.WindowsClient].
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Edit in User.ini.
Controller sensitivity		Edit in User.ini.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Edit in User.ini.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Mouse acceleration

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open User.ini. Change the line MouseAccelThreshold=0 to the desired value. Notes [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis or adjusting sensitivity.

Mouse sensitivity

Edit ini file
Open User.ini. Change the line MouseSensitivity= to the desired value. Notes [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis or adjusting sensitivity.

Jerky/Uneven mouse movement

Edit ini files

Launch the game at least once then close it. Open User.ini. Go to the following lines and change 2.0 to 0.1: MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=2.0 MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=2.0 Change the line MouseSmoothingMode= to 1 and MouseSamplingTime= to: 0.008 for 125Hz polling rate 0.004 for 250Hz polling rate 0.002 for 500Hz polling rate 0.001 for 1000Hz polling rate Change the line MouseSensitivity= to 50 in User.ini (more or less, if needed to adjust). Open DMZNorthKorea.ini. Change ReduceMouseLag= to False. Notes Opening the control settings in-game to adjust mouse sensitivity will reset the value to 10 or below, making aiming way too slow.

Audio

Audio Settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, SFX and Voice sliders.
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software or OpenAL. See Surround sound.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		EAX 3.0.
Royalty free audio

Surround sound

By default, the game outputs to stereo on modern versions of Windows. This forces the game to use the system's OpenAL device as output and restore surround sound.

Forcing the game to use the system's OpenAL device may lead to audio dropouts, missing and substituted audio samples.

Restore surround sound
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open DMZNorthKorea.ini. Set Use3DSound=True and UseDefaultDriver=False, and save.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed

Poor performance on the DX8 renderer on Windows 8/8.1/10/11

Use the Direct3D 9 renderer
Open DMZNorthKorea.ini. Change the line RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice to RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice.

Use dgVoodoo2.

Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper
Download d3d8.dll from here. Place it in <path-to-game>\System.

Run the game at the screen's refresh rate

Default refresh rate is 60 Hz. This does not limit FPS, but may set your monitor's refresh rate to it, which may result in screen tearing on a 120 Hz or 144 Hz monitor.

Set fullscreen refresh rate
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open DMZNorthKorea.ini. Find the line DesiredRefreshRate=60. Change the value to your monitor's refresh rate. For example, 120 or 144. Notes Modifying any video options will undo the custom refresh rate.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1, 9.0c
OpenGL

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Pentium 4 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz	Pentium 4 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	800 MB	3 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 200 ATI Radeon 8500 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	Nvidia GeForce 4 ATI Radeon 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible
Sound (audio device)	Windows-compatible	Windows-compatible with Dolby Digital audio support
Other	4x CD-ROM reader	24x CD-ROM reader