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Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat
Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat cover
Developers
Ubisoft Annecy
Publishers
Ubisoft
Russia Akella
Engines
Ubisoft OpenSpace
Release dates
Windows September 5, 2002
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat on HowLongToBeat
Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat on IGDB
Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat on MobyGames
Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat on Wikipedia

Warnings

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Original 2002 releases have SafeDisc v2.51.021 DRM[Note 1]. Later releases use a simple disc check.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
This game is no longer available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %WINDIR%\LargoWinchInst\LargoWinch.ini[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
There is only an option to enable it, with no ability to select the level.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
Capped at 60 in menus and 30 in gameplay. However, the latter could switch to 60 after entering and exiting the Options menu, or re-loading a save.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound can only be muted.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Local retail release only.
Spanish

Issues fixed

The installer doesn't work

On modern Windows, the installer might fail to load properly. Its process can be seen in Task Manager, however it won't load and its window won't show up.
Manually copy over the game files
  1. Create a folder on your storage device.
  2. Open the game's disc and copy over Data, dll, InstData and Setup and LargoWinch.exe.
  3. Open Data and delete Video.
  4. From Data, move binkw32.dll and LWsetup.exe to the root folder, where LargoWinch.exe is.

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 350 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia RIVA TNT2
DirectX 8.0a compatible


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]
  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