Marine Heavy Gunner: Vietnam

Marine Heavy Gunner: Vietnam

Developers
	Brainbox Games
Publishers
North America	Groove Games
Europe	City Interactive
Russia	Russobit-M
Engines
	Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows	June 2004
Reception
Metacritic	50
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Cold War

Marine Heavy Gunner: Vietnam is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game.

General information

Official site - retrieved with Wayback machine from December 5, 2004.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\System\*ini

HG.ini contains general settings.

User.ini contains camera FOV, mouse, keyboard/controller bindings and other settings.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor		See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		65° by default. See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter. See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Off by default. To turn it on, see Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		See Run the game at screen refresh rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Custom resolutions can be set manually. Note that for the first two options, the image is Vert-, and FOV should be increased to compensate; HUD and menus remain stretched, however.

Set custom resolution in-game
While in game, open the console with ç. Enter setres XXXXxYYYY (for example setres 1920x1080).

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open <path-to-game>\System\HG.ini. Go to the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] section. Set FullscreenViewportX and FullscreenViewportY to the desired resolution.

Use the Widescreen Fix
Notes Camera and weapon FOV are fixed both during gameplay and in-engine cutscenes. HUD and menus are stretched.

Field of view (FOV)

Game could start to randomly reset those values. If so, edit those values in <path-to-game>\System\DefUser.ini too.

Weapon FOV stays the same.

Set custom FOV in-game
While in game, open the console with ç. Enter fov x (for example fov 100).

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open <path-to-game>\System\User.ini. Change the following lines to the desired value: DesiredFOV=65.000000 DefaultFOV=65.000000

Windowed

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open <path-to-game>\System\HG.ini. Find the section [WinDrv.WindowsClient]. In that section, find an entry WindowedViewportX= and set its value to your desired window width. In that section, find an entry WindowedViewportY= and set its value to your desired window height. Set StartupFullscreen= to False to start the game in windowed mode.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open <path-to-game>\System\HG.ini. Change the line LevelOfAnisotropy=1 to any value desired (between 1 and 16).

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open <path-to-game>\System\HG.ini. Change the line UseVSync=False to UseVSync=True.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		See Mouse acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity		See Mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Set UseJoystick=True in <path-to-game>\System\HG.ini under [WinDrv.WindowsClient].
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Edit in <path-to-game>\System\User.ini.
Controller sensitivity		Edit in <path-to-game>\System\User.ini.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Edit in <path-to-game>\System\User.ini.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Mouse acceleration

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open <path-to-game>\System\User.ini. Change the line MouseAccelThreshold=0 to the desired value. Notes [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis or adjusting sensitivity.

Mouse sensitivity

Edit ini file
Open <path-to-game>\System\User.ini. Change the line MouseSensitivity= to the desired value. Notes [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis or adjusting sensitivity.

Jerky/Uneven mouse movement

Edit ini file

Launch the game at least once then close it. Open <path-to-game>\System\User.ini. Go to the following lines and change 6.0 to 0.1: MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=6.0 MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=6.0 Change the line MouseSmoothingMode= to 1 and MouseSamplingTime= to: 0.008 for 125 Hz polling rate 0.004 for 250 Hz polling rate 0.002 for 500 Hz polling rate 0.001 for 1000 Hz polling rate Change the line MouseSensitivity= to 50 in User.ini (more or less, if needed to adjust). Open HG.ini. Go to the [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice] section and change ReduceMouseLag= to False. Notes Opening the control settings in-game to adjust mouse sensitivity will reset the value to 10 or below, making aiming way too slow.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and Sound Effects.
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software or OpenAL. See Surround sound.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		EAX 3.0.
Royalty free audio

Surround sound

By default the game ouput to stereo on modern versions of Windows. This will force the game to use the system OpenAL device as ouput and restore surround sound.

Forcing the game to use system OpenAL device may lead to audio dropouts, missing and substituted audio samples.

Restore surround sound
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open <path-to-game>\System\HG.ini. Set Use3DSound=True and UseDefaultDriver=False, and save.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese				CD Expert release.

Issues fixed

Game doesn't start on any Windows newer than XP

Use this fix

Poor performance on Windows 8/8.1/10/11

Use dgVoodoo 2

Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper
Download d3d8.dll from here. Place it in <path-to-game>\System\.

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Maximum selectable refresh rate is 60 Hz. This does not limit FPS, but may set your monitor's refresh rate to 100 Hz, which may result in screen tearing on a 120 or 144 Hz monitor.

Set fullscreen refresh rate
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open <path-to-game>\System\HG.ini. Find the line DesiredRefreshRate=60. Change the value and set it to your monitor's refresh rate. For example, 120 or 144. Notes Modifying any video options will undo the custom refresh rate.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 750 MHz	Intel Pentium 4 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	600 MB	600 MB
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible	128 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible
Sound (audio device)	16-bit DirectX 8 compatible	16-bit DirectX 8 compatible
Other	Windows 2000/XP require a minimum of 256 MB of RAM.