Urban Chaos

Urban Chaos

Developers
	Mucky Foot Productions
Publishers
1999-2009	Eidos Interactive
2009-2020	Square Enix
2020-present	My Little Planet Ltd
Retail re-release	Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows	November 30, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Open world, TPS
Vehicles	Automobile
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary, Fantasy

Urban Chaos is a singleplayer third-person open world action game made by Mucky Foot Productions and published by Eidos Interactive.

Originally redistributed digitally by Square Enix, Urban Chaos rights have been reacquired by My Little Planet, a company founded by Mucky Foot co-founder Guy Simmons.

In May 2017, Mucky Foot developer Mike Diskett released the source code.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc DRM
Retail		Re-releases
GOG.com
Steam
Publisher website (unavailable)

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).

Demo

A demo containing an exclusive level is available here.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video files
Go to <path-to-game>\Bink\. Delete or rename Eidos.bik, logo24.bik and PCINTRO_withsound.bik.

Gog Version
Open <path-to-game>\config.ini with a text editor. Find play_movie= and change it from 1 to 0. Save the file.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Game's launcher.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\config.ini
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/243060/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\saves\
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/243060/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Use AlphaYellow's Widescreen Fix.
Multi-monitor			Use AlphaYellow's Widescreen Fix.
Ultra-widescreen			Use AlphaYellow's Widescreen Fix.
4K Ultra HD			Use AlphaYellow's Widescreen Fix and dgVoodoo 2 to run the game in 4K.
Field of view (FOV)		Use AlphaYellow's Widescreen Fix to set a custom FOV value.
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.
Frame generation		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS		Locked at 30 FPS by default. See High frame rate.
120+ FPS		See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

High frame rate

Raising the frame rate cap beyond 60 FPS will speed up the game.

Set high frame rate
Open <path-to-game>\config.ini. Set max_frame_rate to the desired FPS cap.

Higher draw distance

Increase the value in the config file
Go into the <path-to-game>. Open config.cfg with a text editor. Search for draw_distance= and change it's value to 49. Save the file.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Use DirectInput controls only, as XInput causes the character to spin on the spot. See XInput support for a workaround.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		See XInput support.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger support

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)		DirectInput controllers only. PlayStation Mini USB controller, Logitech F series (310, 510 & 710) or any controller with a DI/XI selection switch on the back set to DI.
Additional button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

XInput support

Use XInput Plus
Download, extract and run XInput Plus. Set Target Program as fallen.exe in <path-to-game>. Under the DirectInput tab, set LT/RT to Button 12/13 and DPAD to Button 14/17. (Optional) Under the Setting tab, go to the Others tab and uncheck Enable init beep to not hear the beep every launch. Press Apply and exit.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		At least 5.1.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		1.0 via Miles Sound System.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech				Fan translation; download.
French				Retail only.
German				Retail only; download for digital releases.
Italian				Retail only. download for digital releases.
Polish				Fan translation; download.
Spanish				Open <path-to-game>\config.ini and change lang_english.txt to lang_spanish.txt.

Issues unresolved

Objects become invisible

Certain objects like car tires can sometimes become invisible without any reason for doing so.

Game crashes when view distance is set too high

When draw_distance in the <path-to-game>\config.cfg is set to 50 or higher, the game will crash during the gameplay.

Issues fixed

Visual artifacts during gameplay

Alt+Tab ↹ to another window and back[citation needed]

If using a GeForce card, disable Fast VSync[citation needed]

Game crashes when restarting a mission

Set Windows compatibility mode to "Windows 95"

Texture resolution is too low

The game halves the texture resolution if it detects the graphics card having less than 5 MB of video memory. Since most of the modern systems have more than 2 GB of video memory, the check fails due to the fact that game's code uses a signed 32-bit value for it, forcing low resolution textures.

Hex edit the game executable
Go into the <path-to-game>. Open fallen.exe with a hex editor (eg. HxD). Move to the 821835 (0xC8A4B) hex offset. Look for 00 80 CC 40 89 45 00 (hex value). Replace 40 in that value with 00. Save the file. Notes This fix works for both the Steam and GOG.com versions.

Use dgVoodoo2
Notes By default, dgVoodoo 2 reports a virtual GPU with 256 MB of VRAM to the game, preventing the issue from happening.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	6
Software renderer

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Miles Sound System	5.0r
Cutscenes	Bink Video	0.8i

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95, 98
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 233 MHz		Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM)	32 MB		64 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	400 MB		600 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB of VRAM DirectX 6.1a compatible		8 MB of VRAM
Other	4X CD-ROM		8X CD-ROM