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Scarface: The World Is Yours

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Scarface: The World Is Yours
Scarface: The World Is Yours cover
Developers
Radical Entertainment
Publishers
Sierra Entertainment
Release dates
Windows July 25, 2006
Scarface: The World Is Yours guide on StrategyWiki
Scarface: The World Is Yours on Wikipedia

Key points

Use Scarface Graphics Corruption Fix on modern versions of Windows.

General information

MobyGames entry

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 7 DRM disc check.
Russian copies use StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1] instead.
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patches are available.

Skip intro videos

Replace movies file[citation needed]
  1. Download Scarface NoIntro.
  2. Extract to the installation folder and overwrite.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VUGAMES\Scarface[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 3]

Video settings

Video settings
Video settings

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

1360x768, 1440x900, 2560x1600 are unsupported natively.
Edit registry keys[citation needed]
  1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VUGAMES\Scarface.
  2. Adjust ScreenHeight and ScreenWidth values.

Input settings

Input settings
Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings
Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Italian
Spanish
Russian
Only available in Russian retail copy

Issues fixed

Corrupted graphics

Use PIX for Windows[citation needed]

Notes

If the game crashes on startup, install outside of Program Files.[5]
Some users unable to a achieve locked 30fps or above may need to restart Windows with one CPU core enabled on multi-core PCs despite running corrupted graphics fix. .

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video 1.8d

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.9 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 9200
Nvidia GeForce FX 5500
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  3. 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