Initial D: Mountain Vengeance

Initial D
Initial D: Ryosuke Takahashi's Fastest Typing Theory	2000
Initial D Second Stage: Fastest Typing in Kanto Project	2001
Initial D: Mountain Vengeance	2004

Key points

Based on the TOKYOPOP dub of the anime, and thus uses the dub's names and soundtrack.

Released only in North America.

Limited video options; only two (800x600, 1024x768) screen resolutions. See Increase Rendering Resolution.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		CD-ROM used only for installation.

This game is not available digitally.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\cfg^{[Note 1]}

Editing files doesn't seem to change anything.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\^{[Note 1]}

Save files are encrypted.

Sound and Display options.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Stretches from 4:3 resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		See Increase Rendering Resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		Has three separate viewing angles.
Windowed		See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Increase Rendering Resolution.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		On/Off.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Forced On.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Play at 1080p or higher

Download dgVoodoo.
Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe and dgVoodoo.conf to <path-to-game>, where InitialD.exe resides.
Open the MS folder in the dgVoodoo zip and extract DDraw.dll, D3DImm.dll, and D3D8.dll to <path-to-game>, again where InitialD.exe resides.
Open dgVoodooCpl.exe.
Make sure the Config folder / Running instance is set to <path-to-game>, it may already be there by default.
In the General tab, set Adapter(s) to use / enable to your current graphics card, Appearance to Full Screen, and Scaling mode to either Stretched, keep Aspect Ratio or Stretched, 4:3 Aspect Ratio.
In the DirectX tab, make sure Disable and passthru to real DirectX is unchecked, and set Resolution to Max. You can uncheck dgVoodoo Watermark if you wish.
Optional: under Texturing, set Filtering to Force anisotropic 16x and set Antialiasing (MSAA) to 8x to enable anisotropic filtering and antialiasing respectively.
Click Apply and exit the program.

Play in Borderless Windowed mode
Download and install 3D-Analyze. Launch 3D-Analyze. In 3D-Analyze, click the SELECT button and choose `<path-to-game>\InitialD.exe` Check "force windowed mode". Click the RUN button.

Control options.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Mouse is only used for menus.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Only DirectInput.
Full controller support		Some options can only be toggled by KB/M, intro videos cannot be skipped with controller.
Controller remapping		Some buttons cannot be properly remapped.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		See Controller support.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts		Game uses generic button names, ie "Button A".

Additional information
Controller hotplugging		When controller is unplugged, the game will input randomly until it's plugged back in.
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Fix button assignment
Download and run XInput Plus. Set the "Target Program" to `InitialD.exe`. Go to "DirectInput" and check "Enable DirectInput Output". Assign LT/RT to Button 11/12. Click Apply, this will install DLL files in the installation folder.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master volume only, music is toggled on or off.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 500 MHz	Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	375 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	64 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 8.1 Compliant Sound Card
Other	4X CD-ROM Drive	Wheel/Joystick or other game controller

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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).