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Bad Boys: Miami Takedown

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Bad Boys: Miami Takedown
Bad Boys: Miami Takedown cover
Developers
Blitz Games
Publishers
Empire Interactive
Engines
BlitzTech
Release dates
Windows March 12, 2004
Taxonomy
Themes North America
Bad Boys: Miami Takedown on IGDB
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Bad Boys: Miami Takedown on Wikipedia

Warnings

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

Key points

Released as Bad Boys II in Europe.
Frame rate is capped at 50 FPS. See the WSGF entry to fix.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc 3 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\BB2Config.cfg[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
See the WSGF entry.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
Capped at 50 FPS. See the WSGF entry.
120+ FPS
See the WSGF entry.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX and voices
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Russian

Issues fixed

"Error During Babel Installation" error message on start

Enable compatibility settings[3]
  1. Go to the installation folder, right-click on BBpc.exe and click on Properties.
  2. Select the Compatibility tab.
  3. Tick "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" and select "Windows XP (Service Pack 3)" in the drop-down list.
  4. Tick "Run this program as an administrator".
  5. Click OK.

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 600 MHz or equivalent
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) Direct3D compatible
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible


Notes

  1. 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. 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