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Wheelman

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Wheelman
Wheelman cover
Developers
Tigon Studios
Midway Studios Newcastle
Publishers
Midway Games
Ubisoft
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows March 24, 2009
Wheelman on MobyGames
Wheelman on Wikipedia

Key points

Bare-bone PC port, lacking such features as video options or key rebinding.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM v7.39.0005 DRM. Russian copies use StarForce 5 DRM.
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows
This game is no longer available digitally.

Monetization

Type Notes
Sponsored Pontiac G8, Opel Astra and Zippo lighter are featured in game.


Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Replace bik files[citation needed]
  1. Download "blank" movie files and extract them.
  2. Copy them to <path-to-game>\WheelmanGame\Movies replacing already existing ones.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Wheelman
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/21920/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Wheelman
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/21920/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
FOV change is Vert-.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
See Windowed.
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Field of view (FOV)

Use FOV hack[citation needed]
  1. Download [1] and extract it.
  2. Start the program.
  3. Start the game.
  4. Use hotkeys displayed in a program to increase or decrease FOV.

Windowed

Use DxWnd[citation needed]
  1. Download DxWnd,extract and start it.
  2. Click Edit and Add.
  3. Type in a name, e.g. Wheelman.
  4. Right to a Path field click button with ....
  5. Go to <path-to-game>\Binaries\Wheelman.exe.
  6. Under position type in:
    • X = 0
    • Y = 0
    • W = *your desired window width* (e.g. 1920)
    • H = *your desired window hight* (e.g. 1080)
  7. Go to Input tab and under Cursor handling select.
    • Correct mouse position
    • Intercept GDI Cursor Clipping
  8. Go to DirectX tab and under DirectX version hook select DirectX9.
  9. Click OK and launch the game.

Notes

Make sure window width and height in DxWnd is the same as the one selected in game.
This method has a negative impact on frame rate.

Input

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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
Polish
Polish retail release only.
Russian
Russian retail release only.
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7800
ATI Radeon X1800
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/21920/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (21920) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References