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Terrorist Takedown: Payback

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Terrorist Takedown: Payback
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Developers
City Interactive
Publishers
City Interactive[1]
Russia 1C Company[2]
Digital CI Games
Engines
Impact 2
Release dates
Windows April 1, 2005
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, FPS, Rail shooter, TPS
Vehicles Automobile, Helicopter
Art styles Realistic
Themes Middle East, Contemporary
Series Terrorist Takedown
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Terrorist Takedown: Payback is a singleplayer first-person and third-person action, FPS, rail shooter and TPS game in the Terrorist Takedown series.

The game has poor performance on newer versions of Windows, see Issues fixed for the solution.

General information

Official site - retrieved with Wayback machine from February 10, 2006.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1].
Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\movies\.
  2. Delete or rename intro.mpg.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\City Interactive\TTP_eng

Save game data location

System Location

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Setting Width and Height in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\City Interactive\TTP_eng\V4D Direct3D Renderer\ stretches the image. Use the FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ image.
Multi-monitor
Stretched. Use the FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ image.
Ultra-widescreen
Stretched. Use the FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ image.
4K Ultra HD
Stretched. Use the FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ image.
Field of view (FOV)
See the Instructions for other aspect ratios section of the FOV fix to change the horizontal 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)
Always enabled.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Even though there are registry entries and an ingame option to change Anti-Aliasing, they do not do anything.

Input

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Polish
Russian

Issues fixed

Slow performance on Windows 10

Use dgVoodoo 2

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Tokamak
Audio Aureal 3D

Display frame rate

The frame rate can be displayed in-game by enabling cheats (type "TIPS" at any time; don't mind the pause menu popping up) and pressing F.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 250 MB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon X600 Series or NVIDIA GeForce 210
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9 compatible


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[3] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[4]

References