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Revision as of 14:54, 22 September 2023

Hooligans: Storm Over Europe
Hooligans: Storm Over Europe cover
Developers
Darxabre
Publishers
EU Darxabre
US Hip Games
Release dates
Windows January 25, 2002
Taxonomy
Modes Multiplayer
Hooligans: Storm Over Europe on MobyGames
Hooligans: Storm Over Europe on Wikipedia

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Released in the US as Hooligans.
Game runs severely slow on Windows 8 and 10.[1] See Issues Fixed.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
EU release: SafeDisc v2.51.021 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
US release
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 2]

Video

Hardware settings found in <path-to-game>/settings.exe
Hardware settings found in <path-to-game>/settings.exe
In-game options
In-game options

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Stretched, maximum resolution is 1024x768. FMVs are stretched and windowboxed, menus and FMVs run at 800x600.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
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)
Off by default.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Maximum FPS in-game is 12.[4]
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Labelled Scroll speed.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Keyboard are mouse are required to play the game.
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
CD Music and Effects.
Surround sound
Stereo only.
Subtitles
For both gameplay and FMVs.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Polish
Russian

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
4 Versus
Online play
4 Versus

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues Fixed

Game runs slowly on modern operating systems

Use DDrawCompat[citation needed]
  1. Download ddraw.zip
  2. Extract ddraw.dll into the game's installation directory

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 6
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 300 Mhz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 300 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8.0 compatible sound card
Other 4x CD-ROM drive


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] 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.[3]
  2. 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. Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-02-17
    Tested the game on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit version 1909
  2. Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  3. Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  4. Verified by User:AlRayes BRN on 2020-02-17
    Tested the game on Windows XP Pro SP3