Marine Sharpshooter 3

Marine Sharpshooter 3

Developers
	Jarhead Games
Publishers
Europe	City Interactive
North America	Groove Games
Russia	Russobit-M
Engines
	Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows	February 20, 2007
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles	Realistic
Series	Marine Sharpshooter

Marine Sharpshooter
CTU: Marine Sharpshooter	2003
Marine Sharpshooter II: Jungle Warfare	2004
Marine Sharpshooter 3	2007
Marine Sharpshooter 4: Locked and Loaded	2008

Marine Sharpshooter 3 is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game in the Marine Sharpshooter series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

MarineSharpshooter3.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>\Saves

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		90° 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)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open MarineSharpshooter3.ini. Go to the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] section. Set FullscreenViewportX and FullscreenViewportY to the desired resolution. Notes HUD is stretched. Some menu elements become cropped. Lower vertical FOV at wider aspect ratios (Vert-). Increase FOV to compensate, see Field of view (FOV).

Use the Widescreen Fix
Notes Weapon and camera FOV are fixed both during gameplay and in-engine cutscenes. Menu elements are no longer cropped. HUD and menus are stretched.

Field of view (FOV)

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open User.ini. Define FoV in following lines: DesiredFOV=90.000000 DefaultFOV=90.000000 Notes To maintain identical vertical FOV to the 4:3 FOV at 16:9 resolutions, use 106. At 21:9 resolutions, use 121. 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.

Windowed

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open MarineSharpshooter3.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 MarineSharpshooter3.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 MarineSharpshooter3.ini. Change the line UseVSync=False to UseVSync=True.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Acceleration off by default. To turn it on, see Mouse acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity		Max of 25. For higher, see Mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Set UseJoystick=True in MarineSharpshooter3.ini under [WinDrv.WindowsClient].
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Edit in User.ini.
Controller sensitivity		Edit in User.ini.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Edit in 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 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 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 User.ini. Go to the following lines and change 2.0 to 0.1: MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=2.0 MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=2.0 Change the line MouseSmoothingMode= to 1 and MouseSamplingTime= to: 0.008 for 125Hz polling rate 0.002 for 500Hz polling rate 0.001 for 1000Hz polling rate Change the line MouseSensitivity= to 50 in User.ini (more or less, if needed to adjust). Open MarineSharpshooter3.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 SFX sliders.
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software or OpenAL. See Surround sound.
Subtitles		Cutscenes only.
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 MarineSharpshooter3.ini. Set Use3DSound=True and UseDefaultDriver=False, and save.

Localizations

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

Issues fixed

Poor performance on Windows 8 and newer

Install dgVoodoo 2.

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

Use the Direct3D9 renderer.

Run the game at screen refresh rate

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

Set fullscreen refresh rate
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open MarineSharpshooter3.ini. Find the line DesiredRefreshRate=60. Change the value to match the monitor's refresh rate. Notes Modifying any video options will undo the custom refresh rate.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8, 9.0c
OpenGL

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600 ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible