The Incredibles

The Incredibles

Developers
	Heavy Iron Studios
Windows	Beenox Shift
macOS (OS X)	Beenox Shift
Publishers
	THQ
	Buena Vista Games
Engines
	EvilEngine 2
Graphics	RenderWare
Release dates
Windows	October 26, 2004
macOS (OS X)	October 26, 2004
Reception
Metacritic	55
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Adventure, Platform
Art styles	Stylized
Themes	Contemporary, Sci-fi
Series	The Incredibles

The Incredibles
Subseries of Pixar
The Incredibles	2004
The Incredibles: When Danger Calls	2004
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer	2005
Lego The Incredibles	2018

Warnings

The Mac OS X release of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.

RenderWare games may not work on Windows 11 24H2 or later without using a DirectSound wrapper (see the engine page for details).

The Incredibles is a singleplayer third-person action, adventure and platform game in the The Incredibles series.

It's a port of the superior Xbox version of the game, with the Battle Mode DLC included by default and the disabling of Xbox Live related features.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 5 DRM disc check. 2 CD's for the original release, 1 DVD for the version included in the "Action Pack 3 Games In 1" bundle with Ratatouille & Cars

Demo

A free demo can be downloaded here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\THQ\The Incredibles\Settings
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Incredibles\Incredibles ##\GameData.xsv
macOS (OS X)

Video

Launcher Video settings

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See this page.
Multi-monitor			See this page.
Ultra-widescreen			See this page.
4K Ultra HD			See this page.
Field of view (FOV)		See this page.
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FSAA toggle.
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		This game is naturally uncapped but keeps trying to limit itself to 60 FPS during gameplay. 60+ FPS causes issues.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Force windowed[citation needed]
Download and run DxWnd. Click on Edit, then Add. Set the Path to <path-to-game>\IncPC.exe. Set the window position and size. Set Desktop for borderless fullscreen windowed. Click on Input tab, set Cursor visibility to Hide. Click OK, then File and Save.

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
Full controller support		Launcher cannot be navigated with a controller.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		Can be adjusted through mouse look.
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		See Controller support for restoring vibration support for XInput controllers.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger support

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)
Additional button prompts

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

Controller support

Xidi can translate XInput calls into DirectInput, restore haptic feedback support, and enable controller hotplugging for this game.

Xidi only supports Windows 10 and 11.

Launch the game by using Xidi

Download the latest version of Xidi, and extract them. Go into the Xidi-*\Win32 folder, then copy and paste the dinput8.dll and Xidi.HookModule.32.dll files to both <path-to-game> and <path-to-game>\Game folders, where the game's Launcher.exe and IncPC.exe executables are located in each respectively. Open the launcher and rebind the controls from the Gamepad binding tab. The game should now be fully playable with an XInput controller.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music and SFX.
Surround sound		Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions		Certain languages use closed captions during the FMV cutscenes due to English audio.
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		DirectSound3D.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech				Retail only - 1
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Korean				Text only.
Norwegian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese				Os Incríveis (Positivo Informática).
Russian
Slovak
Spanish				Castilian.
Swedish

Language availability varies between regional releases.

Issues fixed

Stuttering framerate

The game's framerate may stutter/drop randomly on modern operating systems due to broken 3D audio compatibility.

Use DirectSound 3D restoration software[citation needed]

Dash glitch

With modern hardware, Dash may be jittering, which interrupts boosting and kills the speed, basically making the 2 levels with Dash unplayable.

Cap frame rate to 60 FPS[citation needed]
Notes If 60 FPS does not outright fix it, try a value slightly below it, like 55 FPS. This is because of the FPS being uncapped entirely, but also due to it constantly trying to switch back to 60 FPS mid-gameplay. Viewing it with either the internal or an external FPS viewer can show it constantly jumping from 60 FPS to over 100+ FPS.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	PPC	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 800 MHz		Intel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB		512 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	660 MB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce2 MX ATI Radeon 7500 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible		Nvidia GeForce3 Ti 200 ATI Radeon 8500

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.2.6		10.6
Processor (CPU)	PowerPC G4 800 MHz		PowerPC G4 1.2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	384 MB		512 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	670 MB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce2 MX ATI Radeon 7500 32 MB of VRAM		Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti ATI Radeon 8500