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True Crime: Streets of LA

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True Crime: Streets of LA
True Crime: Streets of LA cover
Developers
Luxoflux
Windows LTI Gray Matter
macOS (OS X) Aspyr Media
Publishers
Activision
OS X Aspyr Media
Russia 1C Company
Release dates
Windows May 14, 2004
macOS (OS X) March 1, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 68
IGDB 74
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Brawler, Open world, Shooter, TPS
Vehicles Automobile, Bus, Transport, Truck
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, Detective/mystery, North America
Series True Crime
True Crime: Streets of LA on HowLongToBeat
True Crime: Streets of LA on IGDB
True Crime: Streets of LA guide on StrategyWiki
True Crime: Streets of LA on MobyGames
True Crime: Streets of LA on Wikipedia
True Crime
True Crime: Streets of LA 2004
True Crime: New York City 2006

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.
GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

True Crime: Streets of LA is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action, brawler, open world, shooter and TPS game in the True Crime series.

It's based on the Xbox version, and includes additional cutscenes, more weapons, additional songs, more character skins, and several multiplayer modes.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc v3 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Retail
DRM details are not known
macOS (OS X)
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename GrayMatr.bik, intro.bik and intro2.bik in <path-to-game>/Movies/[3]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\TrueCrime.ini[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)

Video

Graphics Options Menu
Graphics Options Menu

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use ThirteenAG's Fix with the FOV Fix.
Multi-monitor
Use ThirteenAG's Fix with the FOV Fix.
Ultra-widescreen
Use ThirteenAG's Fix with the FOV Fix.
4K Ultra HD
Use ThirteenAG's Fix with the 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)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Negative acceleration that can't be turned off.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio Options Menu
Audio Options Menu

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX, Voice, Cinematics.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation: download (GGames).
Russian
Only available in the Russian retail version.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
GameSpy services have been shut down;[4] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Issues fixed

Weirdly stretched textures

Use WineD3D for Windows[citation needed]
  1. Download WineD3D for Windows. If the graphics card is very old, download the pre-Vulkan version, otherwise go for the regular Vulkan version.
  2. Open the downloaded zip and extract d3d8.dll and wined3d.dll to <path-to-game>.

Audio issues

Suffers from unfixable audio issues, bad audio quality, popping, low, or completely broken audio. A DirectSound wrapper such as DSOAL might help with audio issues, but it's not totally guaranteed in all cases[5].

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video 1.5.21.0
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.3 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0b compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.2.8
Processor (CPU) PowerPC G4 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce2 MX
ATI Radeon 8500


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] 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.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References