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G-Police

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G-Police
G-Police cover
Developers
Psygnosis
Release dates
Windows November 30, 1997
G-Police on Wikipedia

Availability

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

Essential improvements

Patches

A US retail big-box CD for G-Police identifies itself as v1.18. According to ReDump.org's disc index, some European copies identify themselves as v1.19. At the time of writing (2022-06-13) no known patches exist to transition from v1.18 to 1.19, or beyond v1.19.

Playing on modern systems

Windows 10 support
  1. Insert the CD and install the game as usual. The installer works perfectly on Windows 10.
  2. Download dgVoodoo 2 and copy the DDraw.dll and D3DImm.dll files to the G-Police installation folder.
  3. Optional: Run the included dgVoodooCpl program and configure the settings.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\GPolice.cfg[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\GPolice.sav[Note 1]

Video

Startup settings.
Startup settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Vert-
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Vert- with dgVoodoo2
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No fps cap
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
SFX and music can be controlled independently
Surround sound
Dolby surround
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5 dgVoodoo 2 used to map DX5 calls to DX10/DX11
Software renderer
Software mode still requires dgVoodoo 2 in order to run on Windows 10
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 MB
Video card (GPU) AGP card


Notes

  1. 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).

References