Devastation

Devastation

Developers
	Digitalo Studios
	ARUSH Entertainment
Publishers
	ARUSH Entertainment
	Groove Games
Russia	Akella
Engines
	Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows	March 25, 2003
Linux	May 1, 2003
Reception
Metacritic	62
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Cyberpunk, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi

Warnings

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

Devastation is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game.

General information

Official site - retrieved with Wayback machine from August 6, 2003.

Includes a level editor for the single player and multiplayer modes.

Released prematurely in an extremely unstable state, resulting in performance instability and game-crashing bugs, particularly in later levels. An official patch addresses some of these issues.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v2 DRM.

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

This game is not available digitally.

Demo/free trial

A demo is available here.

Essential improvements

Patches

Official

• A list of patches can be found here.
• A patch for American copies of the game: https://www.moddb.com/games/devastation/downloads/devastation-v390-american
• A patch for European copies of the game: https://www.moddb.com/games/devastation/downloads/devastation-v381-euro

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\*.ini
Linux	$HOME/.devastation/System/*.ini

Devastation.ini contains general settings.

User.ini contains camera FOV, mouse, keyboard/controller bindings and other settings.

This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\Save\
Linux	$HOME/.devastation/Save/

Video

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen			See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD			See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		Download Devastation Custom FOV.
Windowed		Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter. See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use dgVoodoo 2.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Off by default. To turn it on, see Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
120+ FPS		See Run the game at screen refresh rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\Devastation.ini. Go to the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] section. Set FullscreenViewportX and FullscreenViewportY to the desired resolution. Notes HUD is stretched. Some menu elements become cropped. Lower vertical FOV at wider aspect ratios (Vert-). Increase FOV to compensate, see Devastation Custom FOV.

Use the Widescreen Fix
Notes Weapon and camera FOV are fixed both during gameplay and in-engine cutscenes. Menu elements are no longer cropped. HUD and menus are stretched.

Windowed

Edit ini file

Launch the game at least once then close it. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\Devastation.ini. Find the section [WinDrv.WindowsClient]. In that section, find an entry WindowedViewportX= and set its value to your desired window width. In that section, find an entry WindowedViewportY= and set its value to your desired window height. Set StartupFullscreen= to False to start the game in windowed mode.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\Devastation.ini. Change the line LevelOfAnisotropy=1 to any value desired (between 1 and 16).

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\Devastation.ini. Change the line UseVSync=False to UseVSync=True.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Enabled by default, see Mouse acceleration to disable it.
Mouse sensitivity		Max of 10. For higher, see Mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Set UseJoystick=True in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\Devastation.ini under [WinDrv.WindowsClient].
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Edit in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\User.ini.
Controller sensitivity		Edit in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\User.ini.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Edit in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\User.ini.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Mouse acceleration

Edit ini file
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\User.ini. Change the line MouseAccelThreshold= to 0. Notes [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis or adjusting sensitivity.

Mouse sensitivity

Edit ini file
Calculate your sensitivity for UT2004 on mouse-sensitivity.com. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\User.ini. Change the line MouseSensitivity= to the desired value. Notes [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis or adjusting sensitivity.

Jerky/Uneven mouse movement

Edit ini file

Launch the game at least once then close it. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\User.ini. Go to the following lines and change 6 to 0.1: MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=6 MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=6 Change the line MouseSmoothingMode= to 1 and MouseSamplingTime= to: 0.008 for 125 Hz polling rate 0.004 for 250 Hz polling rate 0.002 for 500 Hz polling rate 0.001 for 1000 Hz polling rate Change the line MouseSensitivity= to 50 (more or less, if needed to adjust). Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\Devastation.ini. Go to the [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice] section and change ReduceMouseLag= to False. Notes Opening the control settings in-game to adjust mouse sensitivity will reset the value to 10 or below, making aiming way too slow.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Effects.
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software or OpenAL. See Surround sound.
Subtitles		Located under Game settings.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		No option to enable it.
EAX support		DirectSound3D.
Royalty free audio

DefOpenAL32.dll works as DirectSound3D driver which can be used with DSOAL to restore EAX.

Surround sound

By default the game ouput to stereo on modern versions of Windows. This will force the game to use the system OpenAL device as ouput and restore surround sound.

Forcing the game to use system OpenAL device may lead to audio dropouts, missing and substituted audio samples.

Restore surround sound
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\Devastation.ini. Set Use3DSound=True and UseDefaultDriver=False, and save.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Polish				Retail only. Available to download.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		16	Versus
Online play		16	Versus Only possible using direct IP, due to master servers being shut down.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Poor performance on Windows 8/8.1/10/11

Use dgVoodoo 2

Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper
Download d3d8.dll from here. Place it in <path-to-game>\System\.

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Maximum selectable refresh rate is 60 Hz. This does not limit FPS, but may set your monitor's refresh rate to 100 Hz, which may result in screen tearing on a 120 or 144 Hz monitor.

Set fullscreen refresh rate
Launch the game at least once then close it. Open %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Devastation\Devastation.ini. Find the line DesiredRefreshRate=60. Change the value to set the desired monitor's refresh rate. For example, 120 or 144. Notes Modifying any video options will undo the custom refresh rate.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
Linux

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Karma
Audio	OpenAL
Input	DirectInput

System requirements

Windows

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 700 MHz	Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 2 ATI Radeon 7500 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	64 MB of VRAM