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Scrapland

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Developers
MercurySteam
Publishers
Enlight Software
Engines
Mercury Engine
Release dates
Windows November 4, 2004
Reception
Metacritic 72
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Racing
Themes Sci-fi
Series Scrapland
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Scrapland
Scrapland 2004
Scrapland Remastered 2021

This page is for the original release. For the remaster, see Scrapland Remastered.

Scrapland is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action and racing game in the Scrapland series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
 StarForce 3.4.50.01 DRM[Note 1].[3]
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
This game is no longer available digitally.[4]

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Video.
  2. Delete or rename Enlight.vds, Mauretania.vds, MSE.vds, and MSE-Short.vds.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Scrap.cfg[Note 2]

Save game data location

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

Video

Video Settings.
Video Settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
 Use Scrapland Aspect Ratio Selector.
Multi-monitor
 
 Use Scrapland Aspect Ratio Selector.
Ultra-widescreen
 
4K Ultra HD
 
Field of view (FOV)
See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Up to 8x. See Force anisotropic filtering.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Field of view (FOV)

Change gunship FOV[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit Scrap.cfg.
  3. Change the value of HiRacerFov (terminal velocity).
  4. Change the value of LoRacerFov (when stationary).
  5. Save the file and launch the game.

Windowed

Enable windowed[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Edit Scrap.cfg.
  3. Change the value of FullScreen from 1 to 0.
  4. Save the file and launch the game.
  5. Modify any video setting to fix the resolution.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Force MSAA[5]
  1. Download and run Nvidia Profile Inspector.
  2. Create new profile for the game.
  3. Add Scrap.exe to the profile.
  4. Set Antialiasing compatibility to 0x000D02C4.
  5. Set Antialiasing mode to Override any application setting.
  6. Set Antialiasing setting to Multisampling (2x, 4x, 8x).
  7. Apply changes.

SMAA

SMAA Anti-Aliasing with SweetFX[citation needed]
  1. Download this archive.
  2. Extract the contents of Scrapland folder to <path-to-game>.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
No mouse acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio Settings.
Audio Settings.

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Hungarian
Local retail version only.
Polish
Local retail version only.
Russian
Local retail version only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Cutscenes don't play

Use compatibility mode[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Shader Model support 1.4
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1 GHz Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.7 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible 		128 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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