CTU: Marine Sharpshooter

CTU: Marine Sharpshooter

Developers
	Jarhead Games
Publishers
	Groove Games
Engines
	LithTech Talon
Release dates
Windows	March 20, 2003
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Shooter
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary
Series	Marine Sharpshooter

Marine Sharpshooter
CTU: Marine Sharpshooter	2003
Marine Sharpshooter II: Jungle Warfare	2004
Marine Sharpshooter 3	2007
Marine Sharpshooter 4: Locked and Loaded	2008

CTU: Marine Sharpshooter is a singleplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game in the Marine Sharpshooter series.

General information

Official site - retrieved with Wayback machine from November 19, 2005.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg <path-to-game>\custom.cfg

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save\

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor		See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		Use the FOV fix.
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)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Enabled by default. Use d3d8to9 or dgVoodoo 2 on Windows 8 and above.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Has issues running faster than 60 FPS. It's recommended to limit the framerate and set the monitor's refresh rate at 60 Hz.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Edit autoexec.cfg

Run the game at least once. Open <path-to-game>\autoexec.cfg. Find the lines "screenwidth and "screenheight". Change them to the desired values. Notes Stretched gameplay by default at resolutions wider than 4:3, use the FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ image. HUD and menus are cropped at aspect ratios wider than 4:3 by default. Use one of the in-game resolutions and force the desired one using a DirectX wrapper like dgVoodoo 2.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound effects and Music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed

Mouse movement jittery/skipping pixels

Wrap the old DirectInput calls into DirectInput 8
Download the DirectInput 1-7 to 8 wrapper. Extract dinput.dll from the downloaded dinput.zip to <path-to-game>. Go to the mouse options ingame, put the SMOOTHING option all the way to the right, and reduce sensitivity. Increase sensitivity through the mouse's DPI on the mouse driver's control panel.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System
Input	DirectInput

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95/98/ME/XP
Processor (CPU)	Pentium II 300 MHz	Pentium III 550 MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	500 MB	500 MB
Video card (GPU)	3D accelerator (capable of multi-texturing) SVGA, high-color (16-bit) 8 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.0a compatible	3D accelerator (capable of hardware accelerated transformation and lighting) SVGA, true-color 32 Bit Color 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.0a compatible