True Crime: Streets of LA
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Developers | |
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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 | |
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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.
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
- 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]
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\TrueCrime.ini[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Saves\[Note 2] |
macOS (OS X) |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Use ThirteenAG's Fix. | ||
Multi-monitor | Use ThirteenAG's Fix. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Use ThirteenAG's Fix. | ||
4K Ultra HD | Use ThirteenAG's 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 |
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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 |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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] |
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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 |
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Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | PPC | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | ||||
macOS (OS X) |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Bink Video | 1.5.21.0 |
Multiplayer | GameSpy |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III | Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 256 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3.3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0b compatible |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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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
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ 2.0 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
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-01-16
- ↑ Pricing | GameSpy Technology
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-07-03