Dino Crisis

Dino Crisis

Developers
	Capcom
Release dates
Windows	September 15, 2000
Reception
Metacritic	59
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Cinematic camera
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Survival horror
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary, Horror
Series	Dino Crisis

Dino Crisis
Dino Crisis	2000
Dino Crisis 2	2002

Dino Crisis is a singleplayer cinematic camera survival horror game by Capcom, originally released on Playstation 1 on July 1, 1999. It is one of the very few Survival Horror games released by Capcom on PS1 to use fully 3D rendered environments instead of prerendered backgrounds. The game was marketed and developed as a "panic horror" game as opposed to how Resident Evil was marketed as survival horror with the concept being for scares to be more consistent and to be more visceral like a roller coaster as opposed to a fun house. The centerpiece mechanic is that the basic enemies, dinosaurs, are tougher and more intelligent and will chase you through rooms.

Key points

Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS. See Dino Crisis Classic REbirth.

Limited only to a resolution of 640x480, either windowed or full screen. See Dino Crisis Classic REbirth.

Distorted textures and wobbling polygons due to integer-based upscaling. See Dino Crisis Classic REbirth.

Visible border artifacts on filtered textures with transparencies.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		LaserLock DRM.

Essential improvements

Patches

An official Windows XP Patch by SourceNext is available here.

Dino Crisis Classic REbirth

Replaces DirectDraw with DirectX9, fixes issues with higher resolutions (texture warping, polygon wobbling, aggressive bilinear filtering), adds adaptative screen ratio modes (widescreen and ultra-widescreen) and adds borderless windowed mode.

Replaces DInput 5.00 with XInput, DInput 8.00 and RawInput.

Changes framerate to stable 30/60 fps.

Fixes audio issues and replaces DirectShow video playback with FFmpeg.

Removes the need to run the game from its launcher (comes with a custom embedded launcher) and doesn't require the CD-ROM to be inserted at all times.

Translates the Japanese version into English.

Makes the game portable.

Website also offers links for higher-quality sound and FMVs (see below).

Requires Japanese SourceNext release.

May require changing dpi compatibility settings to enable resolutions above 720p.

High Quality Videos

Contains reworked videos and logos.

High Quality BGM and voices

Adds BGM and voices from the Dreamcast version.

High Quality Textures

Adds upscaled textures based on the Dreamcast version.

Requires Dino Crisis Classic REbirth.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CAPCOM\DINOCRISIS

Dino Crisis Classic REbirth makes the game portable.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>

Video

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Multi-monitor			Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Ultra-widescreen			Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
4K Ultra HD			Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth. May require changing DPI compatibility settings to enable resolutions above 720p.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Locked to 640x480. Can be improved with Dino Crisis Classic REbirth.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS		Frame rate is capped at 30 FPS. Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth for 60 FPS in menus (gameplay remains at 30 FPS).
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth for more settings
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth for more settings
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

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

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Russian
Spanish
French
Japanese
Italian

Issues fixed

Fullscreen border on Windows 8 and later

Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth for borderless mode

Classic REbirth does not enable resolutions above 720p

Change high DPI compatibility settings
Right-click the game executable (bio2.exe) or desktop shortcut. Select Properties. Go to the Compatibility tab. Click Change high DPI settings. Tick Override high DPI scaling behavior. Select Application in the drop-down menu. Click OK.

Low frame rate

Run Windows Media Player

Use Dino Crisis Classic REbirth

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 166 MHz	Intel Pentium III or better
System memory (RAM)	32 MB	64 MB or more
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 MB (with CD)	600 MB or more
Video card (GPU)	DirectDraw 6.1 compatible 640x480 High Color (16 bit) 4 MB of VRAM	Direct3D 6.1 compatible 640x480 High Color (16 bit) 16 MB of VRAM