The House of the Dead

The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead	1998
The House of the Dead 2	2001
The House of the Dead III	2005
The House of the Dead: Overkill	2013
The House of the Dead: Remake	2022

Key points

The PC port is significantly downgraded visually from the arcade original as it is based on the Sega Saturn console port of the game.

Since it uses CDDA, trying to play the in-game music may not be simple. See Restoring in-game music.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Simple disc check.

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

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

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		640x480 and 320x240 options only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
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)		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		62 fps cap
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and Sound Effects sliders
Surround sound		3.0
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Spanish				FX Interactive release

_Inmm.dll can be used to fix the lack of in-game music by emulating the Red Book CD audio.

How to use _inmm.dll

Download and install _inmm.dll.
Extract all audio tracks from the original CD with extract audio copy or windows media player.
Run _inmm.dll Setup, then click on the Method tab, and set default to DirectShow.
Click on the _inmm.ini tab, then click Add, and select all extracted audio tracks.
Click Save, then go to the game directory, and save the INI file.
Close _inmm.dll Setup, then drag THOTD.exe onto _inmmcnf.exe.
Click OK when a message pops up that asks if you want to patch THOTD.exe.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	3	use the `-d3d` launch parameter on `THOTD.exe` to force the game to launch in Direct3D mode.
DirectDraw	2

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

↑ ^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).