Psychotoxic

Psychotoxic is a singleplayer first-person FPS game developed by Nuclearvision Entertainment and published by Vidis and Whiptail Interactive.

Psychotoxic was released for Windows on September 3, 2004.^[1]

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		3 DVDs. StarForce 3 DRM^{[Note 1]} in English release, bad sectors in German release.

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

A demo is available.

The latest version for the English release is v1.04. The latest version for the German release is v1.02.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\bin\*.cfg^{[Note 2]}

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

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use the widescreen fix (1680x1050 only).
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
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)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input settings.

Controller types

Audio settings.

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Caused by StarForce DRM ending the game prematurely, a common result of defective physical DRM implementation.^[1]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	FMOD

Windows^[6]
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1.3 GHz	Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 7000 64 MB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 ATI Radeon 9600 128 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 8 compatible
Other	4x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive

↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
↑ ^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).

Developers
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	Nuclearvision Entertainment
Publishers
North America, Europe, Oceania	Whiptail Interactive
Germany	Vidis
Russia, CIS	1C Company
Engines
	Vision
Release dates
Windows	September 3, 2004^[1]
Reception
Metacritic	40
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	FPS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Post-apocalyptic, Supernatural