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Crash Time 4: The Syndicate

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Crash Time 4: The Syndicate
Crash Time 4: The Syndicate cover
Developers
Synetic
Publishers
DTP Entertainment
Poland city Interactive
North America Ubisoft
Engines
3D Landscape Engine
Release dates
Windows December 23, 2010
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Driving, Racing
Vehicles Automobile
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Series Crash Time
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Crash Time 4: The Syndicate on Wikipedia
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Warnings

For Games for Windows - LIVE on Windows 8 or later, install the latest Games for Windows - LIVE software.

Crash Time 4: The Syndicate is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person driving and racing game in the Crash Time series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Icon overlay.png
ProtectDISC Software DRM[Note 1]
Windows
All versions require Games for Windows - LIVE DRM.[Note 2] and ProtectDISC Software DRM.

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Sponsored The game features the original actors from the German TV action show, Alarm für Cobra 11.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions No microtransactions are present in the game.

Essential improvements

Patches

A Title Update is available. The game should automatically prompt for the update when using a LIVE profile; the update can also be downloaded manually (extract the contents and run TitleUpdate.msi).
Some retail copies may already be updated.[1]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %PROGRAMDATA%\Synetic\CrashTime4\Config.ini[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %PROGRAMDATA%\Synetic\SavedGame[Note 3]

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
4:3, 5:4, 16:10 and 16:9 resolutions are shown.
Other resolutions (including ultrawide/multi-monitor) may or may not show up as (for example) 16:6.7 (for 21:9), 16:4.5 (for 32:9) and 16:3 (for 48:9).
Multi-monitor
Fullscreen must be used.
Hor+ rendered cutscenes and gameplay with spanned HUD. Menus and loading screens are presented on one screen only.[2]
Ultra-widescreen
Fullscreen must be used.
Hor+ rendered cutscenes and gameplay with spanned HUD. Menus and loading screens are pillarboxed.[3]
4K Ultra HD
[4]
Field of view (FOV)
Must be selected from the main menu.
Options from Very Low to High available.
Windowed
Options for 4:3 and 16:9 windows available.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Off/2x/4x/8x of an unknown method.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.


Input

Input settings
Input settings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings
Language settings
Language settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound Effects, Music, Environment and Voice.
Surround sound
Entire game uses stereo.[5]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Polish
Polish retail version only.

Use original German voice acting without changing UI/subtitle language

Considered superior to the English dub
Features the original actors from the TV show
Instructions
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Missions\Dialogs
  2. Delete or rename the English folder
  3. Copy or rename the German folder to English

Network

Online features require a Microsoft account (optional for offline play).

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Versus
LAN play
8 Versus
Requires Games for Windows - LIVE.
Online play
8 Versus

Connection types

Issues fixed

Game can't start prompting the missing xlive.dll

Requires Games for Windows - LIVE on Windows 8 and later. Alternatively, use xlive.dll to launch.
Download xlive.dll and extract to <path-to-game>

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 3.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4.2 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. Running CrashTime4.exe requires the DVD in the disk drive. Running the game using CrashTime4Low.exe or CrashTime4Hi.exe will bypass this disc check.
  2. Games for Windows - LIVE DRM features: SSA activation, local profile support unknown.
  3. 3.0 3.1 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

  1. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2022-10-02
    Tested with Polish retail release. After installation and activation, GFWL did not prompt for an update.
  2. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2022-09-24
    Tested at 5760x1080 custom resolution.
  3. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2022-09-24
    Tested at 2560x1080 and 3840x1080 custom resolutions.
  4. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2022-09-24
    Tested at 3840x2160 custom resolution.
  5. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2022-07-30
    Tested using Razer Surround 7.1 virtualisation and confirmed using Special K.