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The Great Escape (2003)

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The Great Escape (2003)
The Great Escape (2003) cover
Developers
Pivotal Games
Publishers
SCi Games
Gotham Games
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows July 22, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 54
IGDB 64
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres FPS
Themes World War II, Europe
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The Great Escape (2003) is a singleplayer first-person FPS game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 4 DRM.
Windows
A free demo version is available from GamePressure.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Gotham Games\The Great Escape\Device Settings[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Launcher video settings.
Launcher video settings.
In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

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)
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)
Enabled by default (tested with d3d8to9 and dgVoodoo2 on Windows 10)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No frame rate cap, but very high frame rates will cause hanging animations and other glitches while trying to fall, jump or climb. Set refresh rate to 60 or 120 Hz to solve.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Edit registry entries[citation needed]
  1. In regedit, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Gotham Games\The Great Escape\Device Settings, or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Gotham Games\The Great Escape\Device Settings if running the game without administrator privileges.
  2. Edit the entry ResolutionIndex and change the value. e.g. (decimal):
    • 16 - 1440×900
    • 17 - 1600×900
    • 18 - 1680×1050
    • 19 - 1920×1080

Notes

Editing graphical settings in the launcher will revert the changes.
The values above are just an example. The values differ between different setups and is a matter of trial & error.The values above are just an example. The values differ between different setups and is a matter of trial & error.
On some graphics cards, the resolution will automatically revert to 800×600 on startup. This can be fixed by running the game as administrator.

Input

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
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Vsync not working on Windows 10

Use dgVoodoo2.[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98/Me/XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 3 933
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.6 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 8 compliant


Notes

  1. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

References