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Gangsters: Organized Crime
Gangsters: Organized Crime cover
Developers
Hothouse Creations
Publishers
1998-2009 Eidos Interactive
2009-present Square Enix
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows December 7, 1998
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based, Real-time
Perspectives Isometric, Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Simulation, Strategy
Themes Interwar, North America
Series Gangsters
Gangsters: Organized Crime on MobyGames
Gangsters: Organized Crime on Wikipedia
Gangsters
Gangsters: Organized Crime 1998
Gangsters 2: Vendetta 2001

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Illegal Table of Contents and oversized DRM (lead-out area shortened and used for data, to prevent most contemporary CD-RW drives from copying the method)
Custom DRM code can sabotage the game by having all agents start in prison.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is 1.4, available from Patches-Scrolls.

Elisha's renderer

Fixes blank menu buttons on Windows 10 and newer.
Use Elisha's renderer[1]
  1. Download the Gangsters: Organized Crime renderer.
  2. Unzip the files to <path-to-game>.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Hothouse\Gangsters[Note 1]

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 640x480, 800x600 & 1024x768
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)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Can be toggled.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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
SFX, Music (CD)
Surround sound
Subtitles
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
French
Retail only.
German
Retail only; download for digital release
Italian
Retail only.
Spanish
Retail only.

Network

Multiplayer support requires DirectPlay.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
4
Online play
4 The official multiplayer service has been shut down.

Connection types

Issues fixed

Rainbow colors

The GOG.com version is already patched. For retail versions, see DirectDraw troubleshooting.

Buttons are blank on Windows 10

Use Elisha's renderer

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer MPlayer.com

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 18.5 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA video card
2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 6 compatible
Other 4x CD-ROM Drive


Notes

  1. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  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:Plok on 2023-03-24
    More generic DirectDraw wrappers do not seem to fix this.