Lucky Luke: Western Fever

Lucky Luke: Western Fever

Developers
	Kalisto Entertainment
Publishers
2001-2003	Infogrames
2003-?	Atari
Release dates
Windows	2001
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Puzzle, Shooter, TPS
Art styles	Cartoon
Themes	North America, Western
Series	Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke (1987)	1987
Lucky Luke (1997)	1997
Lucky Luke (2000)	2000
Lucky Luke: Western Fever	2001
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure	2007
Lucky Luke: Shoot & Hit	2014
Lucky Luke: Transcontinental Railroad	2015

Lucky Luke: Western Fever is a singleplayer third-person action, puzzle, shooter and TPS game in the Lucky Luke series.

The player, as Lucky Luke, has to walk around fixed tracks on Mexican territory and sometimes shoot bandits, moving the aim of his gun from one fixed position to another. Also he has to avoid the enemy's bullets and reload his weapon.

General information

Official site - retrieved with Wayback machine from June 28, 2001.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Simple disc check.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\DATA\BOARD\BUTTONS.DAT <path-to-game>\DATA\BOARD\CONFIG.DAT

<path-to-game>\DATA\BOARD\CONFIG.DAT does not save to VirtualStore but is modified by the game.

<path-to-game>\DATA\BOARD\CONFIG.DAT also acts as a save for bonus unlocks and high scores.

The Crashes during level load/save game and bonus unlocks do not save fix must be applied for <path-to-game>\DATA\BOARD\CONFIG.DAT to function correctly.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVE\ <path-to-game>\DATA\BOARD\CONFIG.DAT

<path-to-game>\DATA\BOARD\CONFIG.DAT does not save to VirtualStore but is modified by the game.

<path-to-game>\DATA\BOARD\CONFIG.DAT also acts as a configuration file.

The Crashes during level load/save game and bonus unlocks do not save fix must be applied for <path-to-game>\DATA\BOARD\CONFIG.DAT to function correctly.

Essential improvements

Critical gameplay/bugfixes

On modern systems, the game has several issues which affect saving and running the game reliably, unless these fixes are applied.

Apply all fixes under Issues fixed
Apply all fixes listed under Issues Fixed.

Skip intro videos

Skip intro

Go to <path-to-game>\DATA\INTRO\. Rename/delete these files and when launching the game, repeatedly hit spacebar (shoot button) to get past the black screen faster: COPYRIGH.tga COPYRIGH_256_1.tga COPYRIGH_256_2.tga INFOGRAM.mpg INFOGRAM.tga INFOGRAM_256_1.tga INFOGRAM_256_2.tga KALISTO.tga KALISTO_256_1.tga KALISTO_256_2.tga LUCKYCOM.tga LUCKYCOM_256_1.tga LUCKYCOM_256_2.tga Notes This method requires some user input on game start to function fully.

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See this page.
Multi-monitor		See this page.
Ultra-widescreen		See this page.
4K Ultra HD		See this page.
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		See Game runs too fast/Audio ends early during cutscenes.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Voices and Sound Effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Portuguese				Fan translation by rubinho146, download.
Spanish

Issues fixed

Crashes during level load/save game and bonus unlocks do not save

On Windows 10, the game can sometimes freeze and crash during level loading and more rarely when saving the game. Bonus unlocks after fully clearing a level also do not persist after a game restart without this fix.

Set Compatibility Mode to "Windows XP (Service Pack 2)"

Go to <path-to-game>. Right click on Lucky_R_PC.exe (or Lucky_R_PCC.exe if using the widescreen fix) and then click on Properties from the menu. Go to the Compatibility tab and set the compatibility mode for "Windows XP (Service Pack 2)". Click Apply. As a general precaution, it is recommended to save in multiple slots, keeping a number of saves (e.g. 3 saves) and overwriting only the oldest of the number of existing saves when saving a game as the game may still very rarely crash during stage transition level loading even with this fix applied.

Game runs too fast/audio ends early during cutscenes

Game logic is tied to the framerate and values higher than 25 cause the game to run too fast and cutscene audio to end before dialogue is completed.

Cap the framerate to 25 with dgVoodoo 2
Apply dgVoodoo 2. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe, right-click on the dgVoodoo banner and enable Show all sections of the configuration. Under the GeneralExt tab set FPS limit to 25.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6

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, 98, ME and superior
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 200 MMX
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)