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Rat Hunter

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Rat Hunter
Rat Hunter cover
Developers
Secret Sign
Publishers
Game Factory Interactive
Russobit-M
Release dates
Windows January 13, 2006
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Rat Hunter on MobyGames

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
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>\bin\config.xml[Note 2]
<path-to-game>\bin\controls.xml[Note 2]

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
All resolutions are rendered in 4:3 aspect ratio.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Use FOV Changer or modify all level's XML files in <path-to-game>\Data\levels\, by adding an attribute FOV="90" in World node.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
No framerate cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music & SFX.
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
DirectSound3D.[5]
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Meqon
Audio DirectSound3D

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 - 1.8 GHz
AMD Athlon 1800+
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.7 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 5600
ATI Radeon 9600


Notes

  1. This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] 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