Secret Service
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Developers | |
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Cauldron | |
Publishers | |
Activision Value Publishing | |
Engines | |
CloakNT | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 4, 2008 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, Shooter, Puzzle |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Contemporary, North America |
Series | Secret Service |
Secret Service | |
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Secret Service: In Harm's Way | 2001 |
Secret Service: Security Breach | 2003 |
Secret Service | 2008 |
Key points
- Game lacks an FPS limiter or Vsync and has hit detection issues with frame rates higher than 85 FPS.
Secret Service is a singleplayer first-person action, shooter and puzzle game in the Secret Service series.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail |
- This game is not available digitally.
Essential improvements
Blood Mod
- This mod enables blood when shooting enemies.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Profiles\[Note 1] |
- Key bindings are stored in
<path-to-game>\Config\keybinding.txt
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Profiles\[Note 1] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | See Widescreen resolution. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | The FOV can be changed via Hex edit --> Offset 343580: AB 61 9C 3F → AB 61 CC 3F | ||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Up to 16 samples | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | 2x and 4x MSAA | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Hit detection breaks at higher frame rates. See Issues fixed. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Widescreen resolution
Modified CloakNTEngine.dll file[citation needed] |
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Hex edit the config file[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | Mouse smoothing | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sound and Music | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
German |
Issued fixed
Enemies not taking any damage when you shoot them
Cap frame rate to 85 FPS via Nvidia Control Panel[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | Havok | |
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
Mods
- No HUD - Put the Gui directory from that zip file into game installation directory, e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision Value\Secret Service. This mod only works correctly with widescreen.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP/Vista | |
Processor (CPU) | Pentium 4 2.5 GHz | Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2.3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | ATI Radeon x800 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model Pixel/vertex version 2.0 support |
ATI Radeon x1900 NVIDIA GeForce 7900 512 MB of VRAM Shader model version 3.0 support |
Sound (audio device) | Direct X 9.0c compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 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).