Kiss: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child
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Developers | |
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Third Law Interactive | |
Publishers | |
Gathering of Developers | |
Engines | |
LithTech 1.5 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | July 14, 2000 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 71 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Fantasy, Horror |
Series | Kiss |
Kiss | |
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Kiss: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child | 2000 |
Kiss Pinball | 2000 |
Warnings
Kiss: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game in the Kiss series.
General information
- Official site - retrieved with Wayback machine from October 10, 2000.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Simple disc check. |
- This game isn't available digitally.
Demo/free trial
- A demo is available here.
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Microtransactions
Type | Notes |
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No microtransactions | None |
Essential improvements
Patches
Official
- Latest patch is 1.13, but dedicated servers only seem to work properly with 1.1.
- Patch 1.0 to 1.1 (US) is available here.
- Patch 1.0 to 1.1 (Collector's Edition) is available here.
- Patch 1.1 to 1.13 (US) is available here.
- Patch 1.0 to 1.12 (EU) is available here.
- Patch 1.12 to 1.13 (EU) is available here.
Unofficial
- Felizpe's Windows 10 Patch - See details here.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg[Note 1] <path-to-game>\default.cfg[Note 1] <path-to-game>\server.cfg[Note 1] <path-to-game>\server_bighead.cfg[Note 1] <path-to-game>\profiles\<user-id>.cfg[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\save\[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | The FOV slider in the game options under Interface is not truly Hor+, as it only handles horizontal FOV, the vertical FOV is still cut off at wider resolutions than 4:3, squishing the image. Use the FOV Fix instead. | ||
Windowed | Set "Windowed" "1" in <path-to-game>/autoexec.cfg and <path-to-game>/profiles/<user-id>.cfg . |
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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 | Game logic is tied to frame rate. At over 60 FPS, mouse is jerky and cutscenes are too fast, cutting off characters' voice lines. At extremely high frame rates, the game runs inhumanly fast. Set the monitor's refresh rate to 60 Hz to fix it.[1] | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Widescreen resolution
Edit autoexec.cfg and <user-id>.cfg [1]
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Notes
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Run the game in widescreen resolutions[2] |
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Notes
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Use Felizpe's patch[3] |
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Notes
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | A3D 1.0, EAX 1. | |
Royalty free audio | Even though the soundtrack was made exclusively for the game, there are some KISS licensed songs playing in the background. |
Localizations
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | ||||
LAN play | 16 | Versus |
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Online play | 16 | Versus GameSpy services have been shut down;[4] see GameSpy for workarounds. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | Start Dedicated.exe . Instructions on how to setup a dedicated server can be found in <path-to-game>\dedicated.txt . |
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Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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UDP | 42972, 42973 |
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
Issues unresolved
Can't uninstall the game on Windows 10
- If the game is installed in any other drive besides the main one, the uninstall information gets corrupted and it can't be uninstalled from inside the Control Panel, returning a "catastrophic failure" error message.
- Set the compatibility mode to Windows 98/Windows ME for the Setup.exe file located on the game's CD-ROM then install the game. The uninstaller will work fine after from the Control Panel - Programs and Features.
Issues fixed
Rename the launcher executable[5] |
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Rename |
Disable compatibility flags in Compatibility Administrator[6][7][1] |
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Notes
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Mouse movement jumping pixels/stuttering
Use dinputto8[1] |
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Can't reinstall the game after the above error
Delete the corrupted files[8] |
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High FPS Issues
Limit the Framerate to 60 FPS[1] |
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Set refresh rate on 60 Hz[1] |
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Game crashes on startup
Use custom DLL[9] |
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Game's resolution has 2048 pixel limit
Use dgVoodoo v2.82.3 or newer[10] |
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From this Widescreen Fix, extract d3dim.dll to <path-to-game> [11]
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Low frame rate on Windows 8 and higher
Use dgVoodoo v2.82.3 or newer[10] |
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(Windows 8 and 8.1 only) Download ddraw.dll and put it in <path-to-game> [12]
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(Windows 8 - 10) Use the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit[12] |
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See Windowed[11] |
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Game starts in windowed mode despite it being disabled
Use dgVoodoo v2.82.3 or newer[11] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 6 | [13] |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Miles Sound System | 5.0d 5.0f version 1.1 |
Input | DirectInput | |
Cutscenes | Smacker Video Technology | 4.0d |
Multiplayer | GameSpy |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | ||
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium II 266 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | ||
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7.0a compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-02-05
- ↑ KISS: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child | WSGF
- ↑ General Discussion | GOG
- ↑ Pricing | GameSpy Technology
- ↑ Verified by User:Eddman on 2024-04-05
- ↑ KISS: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child (2000) \ VOGONS - last accessed on 2024-02-05
- ↑ KISS: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child (2000) \ VOGONS - last accessed on 2024-02-05
- ↑ Microsoft Support | Catastrophic failure solution
- ↑ Kiss: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child (Windows 10 Patch) file - Mod DB - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-02-06
- Recent versions of dgVoodoo 2 have fixed the performance issues with dynamic lighting on pre-LithTech Jupiter games, which previous dgVodooo versions suffered from.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-02-06
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Windows 8 strange things and 3d faster in window (retrieved)
- ↑ Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2024-04-04
- According to System Informer, the game loads d3dim.dll. dgVoodoo2's traces point to Direct3D 6 (e.g: "Direct3DDevice3").