SWAT 4

SWAT 4

Developers   Irrational Games

Publishers   Vivendi Universal Games   Sierra Entertainment

Engines   Vengeance Engine

Release dates Windows April 5, 2005

Police Quest

Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel	1987
Police Quest II: The Vengeance	1988
Police Quest III: The Kindred	1991
Police Quest: Open Season	1993
Police Quest: SWAT	1995
Police Quest: SWAT 2	1998
SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle	1999
SWAT 4	2005

Key points

GameSpy online server browser has been shut down.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
Amazon.com

The game is not available in digital distribution.

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Name	Notes
The Stetchkov Syndicate

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1

Skip intro videos

Launch the game with -nointro parameter

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Content\System\Swat4.ini <path-to-game>\ContentExpansion\System\Swat4X.ini

Save game data location

	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Content\System\Campaign.ini <path-to-game>\ContentExpansion\System\Campaign.ini

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GameSave Manager

Video settings

Make sure game is running with admin rights

Video settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor			Disable intros to fix flickering
Field of view (FOV)		FOV 85
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Can be forced through the NVIDIA Control Panel/AMD Control Center.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
120+ FPS		See Refresh rate.

Widescreen resolution

Edit INI files Open your configuration file with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Adjust the following lines accordingly to your resolution WindowedViewportX= WindowedViewportY= FullscreenViewportX= FullscreenViewportY=

Windowed

Edit ini file Open your configuration file with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Find Suppress=WindowedMode and comment it (put a ; at beginning of the line) Notes You can toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode with Alt+↵ Enter now

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit ini file Open your configuration file with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Go to class [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]. In this section adjust line LevelOfAnisotropy=1 (maximum is 16).

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Edit ini file Open your configuration file with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Go to class [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]. In this section find UseVSync=False which can be set to true to enable v-sync

Refresh rate

Edit ini file Open your configuration file with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Go to class [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]. In this section adjust line DesiredRefreshRate=.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		mouse smoothing and acceleration enabled by default
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Other
Touchscreen optimised

Mouse acceleration

Edit User.ini Open your User.ini with a text editor (make sure you have run the game at least once) Add the following lines at the bottom: [Engine.PlayerInput] bInvertMouse=False MouseSmoothingMode=0 MouseSmoothingStrength=0.000000 MouseSensitivity=1.00000 MouseSamplingTime=0.001 MouseAccelThreshold=0.000000 DoubleClickTime=0.200000 [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis

Mouse sensitivity

Edit User.ini Set in-game sensitivity slider to 1.00 Calculate your sensitivity for UT2004 on mouse-sensitivity.com Edit your User.ini with a text editor: [Engine.Input] MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=2.0 MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=2.0 [Engine.PlayerInput] MouseSensitivity=1.00000 [Engine.PlayerInput] entries are created upon inverting mouse y-axis

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		For EAX, requires use of Creative Alchemy. Also, you must edit Swat4.ini and set the following parameters to true: UseEAX and Use3DSound
Subtitles		Under Game Controls.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play
Online play		GameSpy server browser has been shut down.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting		Windows dedicated server software included in the installation folder.
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Screens flickering

Screens flickering Some users with multiple monitors have issues with their screens flickering. Unplug your second monitor's cable that goes to your graphics card (unplugging the power cable is not enough) and start the game. Alternatively, press Win+P to bring up the display switch dialog (on Windows 7 and up), and disable the secondary monitor.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98 SE, 2000, XP	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz	AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB	2.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400 ATI Radeon 8500 32 MB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti ATI Radeon 9500 128 MB of VRAM