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Pirate Hunter

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Pirate Hunter
Pirate Hunter cover
Developers
DIOsoft
Publishers
Retail Noviy Disk
Digital Strategy First
Engines
DIOsoft Engine
Release dates
Windows September 10, 2009
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter, FPS
Art styles Realistic
Pirate Hunter on HowLongToBeat
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Pirate Hunter is a singleplayer first-person action, shooter and FPS game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Russian release protected by StarForce 5.70 DRM[Note 1] .
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
German release
Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Publisher website (unavailable)
Requires online activation
StarForce 5 DRM[Note 2]
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game may not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected releases).

Game data

Game settings.
Game settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\animbase\console\cvars.cfg[Note 3]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3061910/pfx/[Note 4]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savegames\[Note 3]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/3061910/pfx/[Note 4]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.
Effects settings.
Effects settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Aspect ratio is updated only on game launch.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Slider between 45° and 75° vertical degrees. Can be extended past the limit using using the command set fov X. Weapon viewmodels are not scaled!
Windowed
Fullscreen toggle is not visible in menu until the game is Windowed. See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Using Borderless Gaming or other third party application.
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 and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Rendered image uses SDR color space. In-game HDR option refers only to HDR Rendering.
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Edit config file[3]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\data\animbase\console\cvars.cfg with a text editor.
  2. Find a line:
    regvar frame_fullscreen                 long  1    "1"
  3. Change it to:
    regvar frame_fullscreen                 long  1    "0"

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Located under Game options.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
No option to disable it.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Russian
Slovak
Fan - 1

Other information

Enable Developer Console

Edit config file[3]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\data\animbase\console\cvars.cfg with a text editor.
  2. Find a line:
    regvar con_enabled                      long  1    "0"
  3. Change it to:
    regvar con_enabled                      long  1    "1"

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 11 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS
AMD Radeon Х1950 Pro
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. Version 5.70 of StarForce DRM requries KB2930157 to be installed on Windows 8.1 to function properly. This version may also need a manual driver update on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11 to function properly.[1][2] The driver can be updated using the included PCNSL.exe/PROTECT.exe tool.
  2. Version 5.0 of StarForce DRM requires a manual driver update on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11 to function properly.[1][2] The driver can be updated using SFUPDATE.
  3. 3.0 3.1 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).
  4. 4.0 4.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References