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Fast & Furious: Showdown

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Fast & Furious: Showdown
Fast & Furious: Showdown cover
Developers
Firebrand Games
Publishers
Activision
Engines
Octane
Release dates
Windows May 23, 2013
Taxonomy
Genres Racing
Series Fast & Furious
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General information

Steam Community Discussions

Key points

Stuttering on modern PCs.[citation needed]
Online leaderboards for this game have been shut down.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Steam
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Not Available in United States, Mexico, Japan, Russia, Canada & China.
Windows
All versions require Steam DRM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Activision\Fast & Furious™ - Showdown\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224340/pfx/[Note 1]
The following files, graphics.dat, keybindings.dat is encrypted.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Activision\Fast & Furious™ - Showdown\save.bin
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/224340/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Main resolutions not listed before 1280x720. See Custom resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
In-game UI elements are native.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Toggle with Alt+ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA from 1x to 16x with no option to disable.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Called "Half Framerate Lock".
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
The character/driver physics animations are capped 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Consoles only.

Custom resolution

Main resolutions not listed before 1280x720.
Instructions
  1. Select your desired resolutions in GPUs control panel.
  2. Launch the game.

Notes:

Changing resolution in game options from chosen your desired may crash the game randomly.
The In game UI elements is still native.
The 4:3 resolutions are pillarboxed 16:9 (black borders).

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Force borderless windowed mode
  1. Set the game to run in windowed mode in the in-game video settings, make sure it's set to the same resolution as your desktop.
  2. Close the game. Make sure you haven't set the game to run in compatibility mode for XP nor Vista, the former causes borderless to be glitchy and the latter leads to a crash. Compatibility mode for 7 (if you're running 8+) is fine, should you need it.
  3. Install Borderless Gaming.
  4. Run the game and wait for it to get to the main menu.
  5. Run Borderless Gaming, click Fast & Furious: Showdown on the left panel, click the arrow pointing to the right.
  6. In a few moments the game window should become borderless fullscreen. If Borderless Gaming isn't making the game borderless try running Borderless Gaming as administrator.
If UI elements are clipping off-screen, in Bordlerless Gaming, right-click Fast & Furious: Showdown under Favorites, and check No Size Change.

Input

Key bindings.
Key bindings.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and Sound Effects.
Surround sound
Uses Dolby Surround 7.1 in game.
Subtitles
Always on subtitles. No option to disable.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Contains rare licensed and Teggo Calderón songs in game.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Russian
Retail only.[1]
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
Co-op mode was only for console versions.

Issues unresolved

Steam must be running to play this game (SteamAPI_Init() failed)

The game requires a Steam installation to be played.

Crashes the game when trying to get to the tunnel entrance on the "Mexico Infiltration" level.

Updating to later versions of Windows may cause it randomly.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Bullet
Audio DTS, Dolby Digital
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista SP2, 7 32-bit, 7 64-bit
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz
AMD Phenom X3 8750
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
ATI Radeon HD 4850
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/224340/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (224340) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References