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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire cover
Developers
EA UK
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Russia 1C-SoftClub
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
Windows November 8, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 66
IGDB 57
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Adventure
Art styles Realistic
Series Harry Potter
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Warnings

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

Key points

No graphics settings.
No mouse support.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
CD key
SafeDisc 4.60 DRM[Note 1] 2 CD's or 1 DVD.
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Demo is available here.
This game is not available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Electronic Arts\Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
800x600 only.
Widescreen resolutions can be hacked. See this tutorial for details, or Use dgVoodoo 2
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Hackable using the method in this tutorial
4K Ultra HD
800x600 only.
4K resolutions can be hacked. See this tutorial for details, or Use dgVoodoo 2.
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)
Use dgVoodoo 2 and choose between 2x-16x under "Texture Filtering".
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Use dgVoodoo 2 and choose between 2x-8x MSAA.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
On by default. Can be forced off through the graphics card control panel.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Designed for 60 FPS, if going above 60 the game speed will act like 30 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
No mouse support.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controllers must be manually configured through <path-to-game>\GofControls.exe.
Controller remapping
Partial, through <path-to-game>\GofControls.exe.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Generic DirectInput controllers are supported.
Button prompts
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
Keyboard only.

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Korean
Local retail version only.
Norwegian
Polish
Local retail version only.
Portuguese
[3]
Brazilian Portuguese
Local retail version only.
Russian
Local retail version only.
Spanish
Swedish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
3 Co-op
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.2 GHz
AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 256
ATI Radeon 7500
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Other


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]

References