State of Emergency

State of Emergency

Developers
	VIS Entertainment
Windows	Wide Games
Publishers
	Global Star Software
Release dates
Windows	August 1, 2003
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Brawler, Shooter, TPS
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Contemporary

State of Emergency is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action, brawler, shooter and TPS game.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 4 DRM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use the Widescreen & FOV Fix.
Multi-monitor		Use the Widescreen & FOV Fix.
Ultra-widescreen		Use the Widescreen & FOV Fix.
4K Ultra HD		Use the Widescreen & FOV Fix.
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)		Vsync is broken on Windows 8 and newer. Use d3d8to9 or dgVoodoo 2 to fix it.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Uncapped FPS, however high framerates speed up the game.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Accessible via in-game settings menu.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Accessible via in-game settings menu.
Mouse input in menus		Mouse acts like keyboard.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Controllers work in the menu by default. In-game bindings will need to be manually assigned, which can be done entirely with a controller.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

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

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play		4	Versus, Co-op
Online play		4	Versus, Co-op

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP	6969

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Animation corruptions

The animation cycles in the game appear to be locked to frame rate. On newer hardware, this will cause the game's frame rate to be too high and animations appear to be playing twice as fast (occurs both in-game and in-menu animations). The game uses a Vsync (enabled by default) to limit itself but it does not work in Windows 10 because Windows 10 has broken Vsync in DirectX 8.

Use dgVoodoo 2
Download [1] dgvoodoo2. Copy D3D8.DLL from the \MS\x86\ folder to the game install directory. Set the monitor's refresh rate on 60 Hz.

Use DxWnd[citation needed]

Download DXWnd Extract to a directory of preference. Run DxWnd in Admin mode. On the top bar of DxWnd, click on "Edit" and choose "Add". Go to "Path:" on the Main page and click the "..." next to the white text box. Navigate to where the game is installed. Click on the "KaosPC.exe" and click "Open". Now click "OK", the icon for the game will now appear in DXWnd, it will be dealt with later. Click on "Options" from the top bar, and click "Expert Mode". Right click on the State of Emergency game icon in DxWnd and choose "Modify". Click on the "Timing" tab. Under "Frame Per Second", click on the box next to "Limit". In the text box for "delay (msec)", enter "60". Under "delay (msec)", click on the box next to "Hz". Now click "OK". All done, double click the State of Emergency icon and launch the game.

No music in-game

Copy music files to <path-to-game>
Navigate to the Audio folder on the game CD. Copy the WMA folder to <path-to-game>\Audio\.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 600 MHz	Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	600 MB
Video card (GPU)	3D Accelerator Required GeForce 2 or equivalent 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	GeForce 3 or equivalent Vertex shader compatible 32 MB of VRAM
Other	8x CD-ROM drive