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D.I.R.T.: Origin of the Species

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D.I.R.T.: Origin of the Species
D.I.R.T.: Origin of the Species cover
Developers
Nu Generation Games
Publishers
North America Tri Synergy
Europe Nobilis
Release dates
Windows November 8, 2006
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter, TPS
Themes Contemporary, Sci-fi
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Warnings

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

D.I.R.T.: Origin of the Species is a singleplayer third-person action, shooter and TPS game.

The game was also sold as D.1.R.T. and Eva Cash - D.I.R.T. Project.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 4.0 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\controls.bin[Note 2]
Graphics and sounds settings are not stored at all.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\saves\[Note 2]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use D.I.R.T. aspect ratio fix.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Added in patch 1.1.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Running the game at framerate higher than 60 increases game speed.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Possible by rebinding Look Up bind.
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound settings are not saved between sessions.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Windows Media Foundation
Cutscenes Bink

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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