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Torrente 3: The Protector

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Torrente 3: The Protector
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Developers
Virtual Toys
Publishers
Virgin PLAY
Release dates
Windows October 15, 2005
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Mini-games, Open world, Shooter, TPS
Vehicles Automobile, Motorcycle
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, Europe
Series Torrente
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Torrente
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Torrente 3: The Protector 2005

Warnings

StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 StarForce 3.5.10.06 DRM[Note 1]
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

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\datos\profiles\[Note 2]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen Patch.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen Patch.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen Patch.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Start the game with -win parameter or use dgVoodoo2.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use Borderless Gaming or alternative.
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
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music volume is tied to some spoken lines and pre-rendered cutscenes.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
No option to disable it.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Frequent stutters when roaming around the city

Possible crashes in modern systems

Possible crash when ordering food shortly after entering any bar.

Issues fixed

High FPS Issues

The game uses a Vsync (Enable by default) to limit itself but it does not work in Windows 10 because Windows 10 has broken Vsync in DirectX 8.
Limit the Framerate to 60FPS[3]
[4]
  1. Download d3d8to9.
  2. Copy D3D8.DLL from the folder to the game install directory.
  3. Set monitor on 60hz

Vsync (Always on) not working on Windows 10

Use d3d8to9 wrapper
  1. Download d3d8to9.
  2. Copy D3D8.DLL from the folder to the game install directory.
Install dgVoodoo2.


Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2.2 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible


Notes

  1. ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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