Difference between revisions of "Pariah"

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Warnings

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

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v4 DRM^{[Note 1]}

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

The game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch v1.03 updates the game to the latest version.

Skip intro videos

Skip intro video
Go to `<path-to-game>`\Cinematics\NTSC Delete/rename the `Chapter01Scene0.bik` file.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\System\Pariah.ini^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\SavedGame^{[Note 2]}

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution. Image is Vert- and FOV needs to be increased to compensate.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)	See Field of view (FOV). Default is 70°.
Windowed	Toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter`.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)	See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS	change "DesiredRefreshRate=60" in Pariah.ini file to your monitor's refresh rate.

Widescreen resolution

Edit Pariah.ini^{[citation needed]}

1. Go to <path-to-game>\System\

2. Open Pariah.ini.

3. Go to the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] section.

4. There are 6 lines in there:

WindowedViewportX=800
WindowedViewportY=600
FullscreenViewportX=1024
FullscreenViewportY=768
MenuViewportX=640
MenuViewportY=480

5. Edit these lines, entering values for desired resolution.

6. Save the changes.

Notes

Changing options in game, will revert the changes.

Some elements of HUD may be stretched.

Image is Vert-. FOV can be increased to compensate.

HUD Scale

Edit Pariah.ini^{[citation needed]}

Go to <path-to-game>\System\
Open Pariah.ini.
Go to the [Engine.HUD] section.
In it find a line HudScale=1 lower numbers make the hud smaller but the ammo counter does move left slightly.

Notes

Does not affect the popup sections of the HUD - e.g. current mission and weapon wheel.

Field of view (FOV)

Use a command console^{[citation needed]}
Start a game and load a map. Open a console by pressing `~`. Type in `FOV X`, where X is your horizontal FOV value (e.g. `FOV 110`).

This change should only need to be applied once.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit Pariah.ini^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\System\` Open `Pariah.ini`. Go to the `[D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]` section. In it find a line `LevelOfAnisotropy=1` and change the number of anisotropic samples.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Third-party software^{[citation needed]}

Launch the game and go to the "Performance" menu.
Set "Disable Post Render FX" to Yes.
Use third-party software (such as your GPU's control panel) to enable anti-aliasing.

Notes

By setting "Disable Post Render FX" to "Yes", the bloom and motion blur effects in the game will be disabled.

Input

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

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		Advanced HD. Enabled OpenAL may cause missing sounds, use Creative Alchemy or disable EAX.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Issues fixed

Flashing screen glitch when running on modern hardware

This is caused by setting Visual Effects to maximum value and whenever something explodes in-game.

Instructions^[3]
Go to `<path-to-game>\System\` Open `Pariah.ini` Add `HasNVidiaTexM32Tex=1` line to the secton `[D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice]` or if it's already present set it to 1

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D User created game profile. Requires D3D8to9, see important notes in the vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	98 SE, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III AMD Athlon 800 MHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2.4 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 8500 64 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[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

↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
↑ http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=147571

[3] SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[2]

[gamedir-4] 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).

[1] Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16

[2] Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

[5] ttp://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=147571

[Note 1]

[Note 2]

[3]

[1]

[2]

@@ Line 75: / Line 75: @@
 |multimonitor               = false
 |multimonitor notes         =
-|ultrawidescreen            = unknown
+|ultrawidescreen            = hackable
-|ultrawidescreen notes      =
+|ultrawidescreen notes      = See [[#Widescreen resolution|Widescreen resolution]]. Image is {{term|Vert-}} and FOV needs to be increased to compensate.
 |4k ultra hd                = unknown
 |4k ultra hd notes          =
 |fov                        = hackable
-|fov notes                  = See [[#Field of view (FOV)|Field of view (FOV)]].
+|fov notes                  = See [[#Field of view (FOV)|Field of view (FOV)]]. Default is 70°.
 |windowed                   = true
 |windowed notes             = Toggle with {{key|Alt|Enter}}.
@@ Line 94: / Line 94: @@
 |60 fps notes               =
 |120 fps                    = hackable
-|120 fps notes              = change "DesiredRefreshRate=144" in Pariah.ini file
+|120 fps notes              = change "DesiredRefreshRate=60" in Pariah.ini file to your monitor's refresh rate.
 |hdr                        = unknown
 |hdr notes                  =
@@ Line 119: / Line 119: @@
 {{--}} Changing options in game, will revert the changes.
 {{--}} Some elements of HUD may be stretched.
+{{ii}} Image is {{term|Vert-}}. FOV can be increased to compensate.
 }}
@@ Line 138: / Line 139: @@
 # Type in <code>FOV X</code>, where X is your horizontal FOV value (e.g. <code>FOV 110</code>).
 }}
+{{ii}} This change should only need to be applied once.
 ===[[Glossary:Anisotropic filtering (AF)|Anisotropic filtering (AF)]]===

Developers

	Digital Extremes
Publishers
	Groove Games
	Hip Games
Russia	Russobit-M
Engines
	Unreal Engine 2.5
Release dates
Windows	May 3, 2005
Reception
Metacritic	69
IGDB	66