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Gene Troopers

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Gene Troopers
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Developers
Cauldron
Publishers
Playlogic Entertainment
Engines
CloakNT
Release dates
Windows December 25, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 46
IGDB 35
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Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3.5.10.06 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.cfg[Note 2]
<path-to-game>\config.def[Note 2]

Save game data location

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

Video

Display settings.
Display settings.
Performance settings.
Performance settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Uses Vert- FOV, resulting in extremely narrow FOV on widescreen resolutions.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Open a console and use FOV X console command (where X is your desired horizontal FOV).
Windowed
Use D3DWindower. Option in config.def runs the game in 784x562 only.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use D3DWindower and Borderless Gaming.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Sound settings.
Sound settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
8 Versus
Online play
8 Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[3] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Connection types

Issued fixed

Mute characters / various sound lacking

Use software that restores legacy audio effects on newer OS[citation needed]
  1. See Restore legacy audio effects on newer OS and choose appropriate solution for your sound card.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Multiplayer GameSpy

Enable a developer console

Start a game with -console parameter[citation needed]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM


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 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