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		Up to 7.0 output through OpenAL or DirectSound3D restoration software.
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

Middleware[edit]

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL, DirectSound3D	May fall back to DirectSound3D if no OpenAL32.dll is detected in c:\SysWOW64.

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