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Chicken Run

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Chicken Run
Chicken Run cover
Developers
Blitz Games
Publishers
Eidos Interactive
Taiwan Acer TWP Corp
Release dates
Windows December 15, 2000
Reception
Metacritic 59
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Adventure, Platform, Stealth
Art styles Stylized
Icon overlay.png
Chicken Run on IGDB
Chicken Run on MobyGames
Chicken Run on Wikipedia

Warnings

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

Key points

64-bit systems need a workaround for the 16-bit launcher; see Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows.
It does not include graphics or resolution options

Availability

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

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
The resolution of the rendering can be changed with dgVoodoo
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
With dgVoodoo up to 16x
Anti-aliasing (AA)
MSAA, Use dgVoodoo
Vertical sync (Vsync)
dgVoodoo
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Default remap options from "Chicken Run Config".
Default remap options from "Chicken Run Config".

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
It is possible that in newer versions of Windows, it may not work correctly, because on certain devices, the configuration is not saved and when trying to reassign the desired key again, the program closes with an error code.[3]
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

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
German
Spanish
Italian
Brazilian Portuguese

Issues fixed

Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows

The 16-bit installer can't be used on 64-bit versions of Windows.
Use winedvm[4]
  1. Download and extract winedvm for windows.
  2. Run otvdmw.exe.
  3. Navigate to SETUP.EXE on the CD and click Open

The game closes by itself after passing the logos.

Use an unofficial patch
  1. Download and extract Chicken Run patched executable.
  2. Go to <path-to-game>, and delete or rename crunpc.exe.
  3. Place the new crunpc.exe in <path-to-game>.

The game does not start.

Use DgVoodoo 2 wrapper[5]
  1. Download and extract DgVoodoo 2 wrapper.
  2. From MS folder copy files D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll and place them in a folder with a game (where crunpc.exe file is).
  3. Start dgVoodooSetup.exe and configure General Settings.
  4. Go to DirectX tab and make sure Disable and passthru to real DirectX is unchecked.
  5. Choose dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card in Videocard field.
  6. Click Apply and OK.
  7. Start a game.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB 100 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D accelerator
4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible 		3D accelerator
8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 7 compatible sound card DirectX 7 compatible sound card


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]

References

  1. ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  2. ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  3. ↑ Verified by User:Epicgames4 on 2023-12-10
    I checked it myself on my laptop, although the error code only happened to me once, in the end it did let me reconfigure the keys but in the launcher they are still mentioned as the default ones. However, when I run the game, the keys that are assigned are the ones that are used and not the default ones. Checked on Windows 11.
  4. ↑ Toy Story - PCGamingWiki. Instructions taken from the previous page.
  5. ↑ Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - PCGamingWiki. Instructions taken from the previous page.