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Revision as of 01:53, 27 October 2022

Contract J.A.C.K.
Contract J.A.C.K. cover
Developers
Monolith Productions
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Engines
Lithtech Jupiter
Release dates
Windows November 11, 2003
Reception
Metacritic 56
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres FPS
Vehicles Motorcycle, Off-roading
Themes Cold War, Europe, Space
Series No One Lives Forever
Contract J.A.C.K. on HowLongToBeat
Contract J.A.C.K. on IGDB
Contract J.A.C.K. on MobyGames
Contract J.A.C.K. on Wikipedia
No One Lives Forever
The Operative: No One Lives Forever 2000
No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way 2002
Contract J.A.C.K. 2003

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

General information

UnityHQ - A fansite for the series
UnityHQ Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 5 DRM.
Windows
The game is not sold digitally due to various legality issues with several parties.

Demos

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1 updates the game to the latest version.

Map Packs

Unlike both No One Lives Forever games, no official map packs were released.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\*.cfg[Note 1]
display.cfg and autoexec.cfg contain game settings.
Changes to autoexec.cfg may result in the inability to join multiplayer servers

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\[Note 1]

Video

Widescreen resolution

Add command line switches[citation needed]
1. Open game's launcher.
2. Open Options.
3. In Command Line insert line:
  • +fovx **** +fovy **** +fovxinterface **** +pvmodelaspect **** +ScreenWidth XXXX +ScreenHeight YYYY
4. Replace **** with values from a table below:
Aspect ratio+fovx+fovy+fovxinterface+pvmodelaspect
4:390.078.090.01.3333
16:9106.2678.0106.261.7777
15:9101.578.0101.51.6666
16:1010078.01001.6
5. Where XXXX and YYYY type in your desired resolution values.
6. Check "Always pass command line arguments to the game".

Note: May not work with resolutions higher than 1280x720.

Windowed

Use a command-line parameter[citation needed]
  1. Start the game's launcher and click on Options.
  2. In Command-Line field type in: +windowed 1
  3. Make sure Always specify these command line parameters is checked.
  4. Click on "OK" and launch the game.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Local retail only, download.
Spanish
Fan translation, download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
16 Versus
Online play
16 Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 27888
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Too high mouse sensitivity

The high FPS causes high mouse sensivity.
Use dgVoodoo wrapper
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Copy D3D8.DLL from the \MS\x86\ folder to <path-to-game>.
  3. Enable v-sync in video options and set refresh rate to 60 Hz.

V-sync broken on Windows 10

Use dgVoodoo wrapper
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Copy D3D8.DLL from the \MS\x86\ folder to <path-to-game>.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 733 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible
Supported Nvidia chipsets: Nvidia GeForce FX, Nvidia GeForce 4, Nvidia GeForce 3, Nvidia GeForce 2, Nvidia GeForce 256
Supported ATI chipsets: ATI Radeon 9800, ATI Radeon 9700, ATI Radeon 9000, ATI Radeon 8500, ATI Radeon 7500, ATI Radeon 7200, ATI Radeon
Other supported chipsets: Matrox Parhelia 512


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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