South Park

South Park

Developers
	Iguana Entertainment
Publishers
	Acclaim Entertainment
Engines
	TurokTech
Release dates
Windows	March 9, 1999
Taxonomy
Series	South Park

South Park
South Park	1999
South Park: Chef's Luv Shack	1999
South Park Rally	2000
South Park: The Stick of Truth	2014
South Park: The Fractured but Whole	2017
South Park: Snow Day!	2024

Key points

Released only in North America.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Game music is played from CD.

This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\savegame.008

Video

Basic options.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		640x480 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Adjust Field of View.
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Increase Rendering Resolution.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See Increase Rendering Resolution.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		On by default, disable with either nGlide or your graphics card control panel.
60 FPS		In-game cutscenes are capped at 38FPS.
120+ FPS		Engine supports uncapped framerate, however mouselook is severely affected.Set monitor on 60hz to fix
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Increase Rendering Resolution

Use nGlide

Download the South Park Glide patch from here. Extract the contents of southpark_patch.zip (southpark3.sdb, PatchUninstall.bat, and PatchInstall.bat) to <path-to-game>, where SouthPark.exe resides. Rename SouthPark.exe to SouthPark3.exe. Double click PatchInstall.bat* to install the patch. Install nGlide. Run nGlide from the Start screen/Start menu and change the resolution and other settings. When starting the game up, choose 3Dfx Custom Driver (Recommended) from the Select Video Driver pop-up. Set aspect ratio to 4:3 for a letterboxed output or to fit to screen to stretch from 4:3. *On Windows 10, PatchInstall.bat might fail to patch SouthPark.exe properly, leaving the game unplayable. To fix this, right click PatchInstall.bat and select Edit, then change sdbinst.exe -q "%CD%\southpark3.sdb" to sdbinst.exe -p "%CD%\southpark3.sdb".

Adjust Field of View

Adjust FoV

Go to <path-to-game>, where SouthPark.exe resides. Open SouthPark.exe (or SouthPark3.exe if you've used the above nGlide patch) in a hex editor, e.g. HxD. Search for AB AA AA 3F and replace 3F it with a value of your choice, up to 43. Save and close the file. Notes Also affects title screen and various cinematics, see below. Values above 43 will have no effect. Values above 7E will not render an image. Viewmodels will appear cut off, see below. Effect of FoV hack on title screen. Effect of FoV hack on character select screen. Effect of FoV hack in cutscene. Effect of FoV hack on view model.

Input

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  Mouse configuration.

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  Keyboard configuration.

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  Joystick configuration.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Called "Speed". On a scale of 1 through 9, with additional 'Slowest' and 'Fastest' settings.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Cannot exit Joystick Config since pressing buttons will make the cursor go to the respective button that was pressed and change its binding.
Controller remapping		Cannot map a pause function to any button.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		By default only 10 of the 16 available buttons will be mappable.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging		Controller must be plugged in when starting the game.
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Sound options.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		SFX and CD Music volume, from 0 to 10. CD Music can be toggled on or off.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Sound effects stop but music continues playing; game continues playing.
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese
Spanish

Issues fixed

Music Doesn't Loop

Pause the game, go to Options, Sound Config, and turn the music off then back on.

Game Won't Start

Use the Improved EXE mod
Also enables changing FOV and view distance.

Use Daemon Tools Lite
The only mounting tool that seems to work properly with the original exe is Daemon Tools. Others will cause the game to instantly crash.

Mouselook is choppy/doesn't work

Lower Refresh Rate in nGlide Configurator
Install the nGlide Patch. Open nGlide Configurator. Set Refresh Rate to 90hz or lower.

Other information

API

Video driver selection.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6
Glide		See Increase Rendering Resolution.
Software renderer		640x480, 640x480 w/shading, and 320x240 w/shading. Mouselook is disabled when using these options.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 266 MHz Intel Pentium 200 MHz with 3D Accelerator	Intel Pentium II 266 MHz with 3D Accelerator
System memory (RAM)	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	95 MB *
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 6 compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible
Other	4X CD-ROM Drive

* Readme specifies 120 MB for HDD space while the retail case specifies 95 MB, which is closer to the full installation size (49.5 MB).