Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Warnings

For Games for Windows - LIVE on Windows 8 or later, install the latest Games for Windows - LIVE software.

Kane & Lynch
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men	2007
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days	2010

General information

Square Enix Forums - Kane & Lynch: Dead Men section

Steam Community Discussions

Availability[edit]

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM DRM
Amazon.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

All versions require Games for Windows - LIVE DRM.^{[Note 1]}

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Skip intro

Go to <path-to-game>\Movies.
Delete all files starting with M00_Intro.

Play without Games for Windows - LIVE[edit]

Play without GFWL^[1]

Download the replacement xlive.dll.
Extract into <path-to-game>\.


Notes

 Can only be used in single-player.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\kaneandlynch\`main.ini`
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/8080/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location[edit]

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\kaneandlynch
Linux (Proton)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/8080/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings[edit]

Video settings

Advanced video settings

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen		See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD		HUD does not scale well.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	Add `Window 1` line at the end of `main.ini`.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	Launch the game in windowed mode and use Borderless Gaming.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	Up to 8x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS	No framerate cap without v-sync.

Input settings[edit]

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Must unplug controller to use keyboard+mouse.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings[edit]

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effects, Speech, Music, Ambience
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		EAX 3^[2]

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Russian				Retail only. Patch for digital release here.

Network[edit]

Online features require a Microsoft account (optional for offline play).

Co-op component is available in local play (split screen) only.

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	2	Co-op Co-op version of single-player campaign.
LAN play
Online play	8

Issues fixed[edit]

Gamepad not recognized[edit]

Go to regedit,press F3 search OEMNAME and replace your joystick name to "XBOX 360 Controller for Windows" without quotes.

Stuttering[edit]

To address this issue, you'll need to do the following:

1. Right-click "My Computer" and choose "Manage". 2. From there, go to "Device Manager" and in the new window double-click "Human Interface Devices". 3. Now right-click and disable only the "HID-compliant device" entries. If this doesn't work (after testing how your game works), disable the "HID-compliant consumer control device" entries.

After you've done this your keyboard and mouse SHOULD still work but the extra features associated with them won't work.

NOTE: When you've finished this game and don't want to play it anymore, simply reverse the changes and re-enable those entries in Device Manager as most other games are not affected by this issue.

Crash on startup[edit]

Update GFWL client^{[citation needed]}

Crash to desktop after the first campaign loading screen[edit]

Head into the main menu audio options and change the Sound Render from OpenAL to DIRECTSOUND^[3]

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements[edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP2, Vista
Processor (CPU)	AMD Athlon XP 1800+ Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz	AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	7 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon X1300 Nvidia GeForce 6600 128 MB of VRAM	ATI Radeon X1800 Nvidia GeForce 8300 128 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ Games for Windows - LIVE DRM features: Legacy activation, supports local profiles.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/8080/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (8080) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[1] Games for Windows - LIVE DRM features: Legacy activation, supports local profiles.

[Proton_path_note-3] 2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/8080/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (8080) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[2] Steam Community :: Bizargh :: Review for Bulletstorm

[4] Techgage - Creative EAX vs Asus ds3d GX 2.0

[Crash_fix-5] Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - Steam forums

[Note 1]

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[Note 2]

[2]

[3]

Developers

	IO Interactive
Publishers
	Eidos Interactive
Japan	Spike Chunsoft
Engines
	Glacier
Release dates
Windows	November 13, 2007