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The House of the Dead III

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The House of the Dead III
The House of the Dead III cover
Developers
Wow Entertainment
Publishers
Sega
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows February 11, 2005
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Arcade, Rail shooter
Themes Zombies
Series The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead III on IGDB
The House of the Dead III on MobyGames
The House of the Dead III on Wikipedia
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Warnings

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

Key points

Does not include extra content (House of the Dead 2) from the Xbox version
Has enemy shadows, better shaders, correct shotgun sounds and is closer to the Arcade version

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc v4 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

House of the Dead 3 PC Texture fix patch

Adds arcade quality skyboxes and fixes bugged textures.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\SEGA\THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD3\

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\SEGA\THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD3\

Video

External video settings
External video settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor
See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen
See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
See the WSGF entry.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
On or Off.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
Graphic settings → Frame rate: 10 fps, 15 fps, 20 fps, 30 fps, 60 fps
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
3.0
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Italian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

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

VR support

Devices State Notes
Novint Falcon

Issues fixed

Game not saving/save data inaccessible

The game will try to place save files in the Documents and Settings and Application Data folders, which no longer exist as of Windows Vista.
Fix saving system[citation needed]
  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%
  2. Create the necessary folders (Application Data\SEGA\THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD3\)

Notes

Changing the save data location through the registry does not appear to work, as it is reset when the game is launched.

Low frame-rate issues/slowdown in Windows 10

The game performs at a below-than-average frame-rate, or slows down considerably to the point of slow motion, making gameplay virtually impossible.
Disable Antialiasing/Use dgVoodoo[citation needed]
  1. In the autorun main menu screen, go to Graphics and set Antialiasing to OFF.
  2. Use dgVoodoo 2. You can download it from Dege's stuffs website: http://www.dege.freeweb.hu/

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows[3]
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 450 MB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 3
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


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