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Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

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Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland cover
Developers
Neversoft
Windows Aspyr Media
Publishers
Activision
Aspyr Media
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
Windows February 6, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 69
IGDB 75
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Genres Tricks
Sports Skateboarding
Themes Contemporary
Series Tony Hawk's
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland on HowLongToBeat
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland on IGDB
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland on MobyGames
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland on Wikipedia
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Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Key points

Random Soundtrack options always have the same music order by default (can be fixed with the ThirteenAG's widescreen fix or PARTYMOD).
Port of the Xbox version. PC version does not include the graphical improvements from the Xbox 360 release.[1]
Missing Collector's Edition content from the PS2 version by default, see THAW Game Launcher to restore.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 7 DRM.
Russian copies use StarForce DRM.
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions:
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Game\Data\movies\bik\
  2. Delete, rename, or move: ATVI.bik, intro.bik, New_Aspyr_firelogo.bik

Patches

Patch 1.01 is the latest version.

PARTYMOD

Improves input handling and fixes bugs.
Adds support for widescreen resolutions.

The Mod 1.01 pak/pab

Makes it possible to skip the intro, change camera angle and more

THAW Game Launcher

Switch online servers from discontinued GameSpy to OpenSpy and features custom resolution (require Reloaded exe only!)
Require the exe to be set as Administrator and Windows 7 compatibility.
Can restore the Collector's Edition content from the PS2 version, but the making of video is missing due to lacking the video file.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Aspyr\Tony Hawk's American Wasteland\Settings

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Game\Save\[Note 1]

Video

Launcher - Video Settings
Launcher - Video Settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use ThirteenAG's fix or PARTYMOD.
Multi-monitor
Use ThirteenAG's fix or PARTYMOD.
Ultra-widescreen
Use ThirteenAG's fix or PARTYMOD.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Camera angle can be possibly adjusted with The Mod
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FSAA toggle. Force MSAA in the graphics card control panel.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
Capped 60fps
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Launcher - Keyboard Settings
Launcher - Keyboard Settings
Launcher - Controller Settings
Launcher - Controller Settings

Audio

Audio Settings
Audio Settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and sound can be adjusted separately. Special sounds and music zones can either be enabled or disabled.
Surround sound
Stereo only. Unlike Dolby Pro logic II on PlayStation 2 and GameCube, and Dolby Digital 5.1 on Xbox and Xbox 360.
Subtitles
Cutscenes only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Download.
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op, Versus
"Classic Mode" can be played in co-op mode. "2-Player" is versus.
LAN play
8
Online play
8 Use reTHAWed.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

reTHAWed

Total conversion mod for the game which aims to improve it at its core, restore multiplayer, increase core functionality and add new features.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti series
ATI Radeon 8500 series
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Intel Extreme Graphics and SiS chipsets are not supported.


Notes

  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

  1. Verified by User:Averygoodperson on 2023-08-26
    I asked on a community discord and the PC version is based on the Xbox version, however there are a few file types from the 360 version included which indicates that there were plans to port the 360 version at first.

System Requirements