К сожалению, в играх бывают изъяны: тормоза, низкий FPS, вылеты, зависания, баги и другие мелкие и не очень ошибки. Нередко проблемы начинаются еще до начала игры, когда она не устанавливается, не загружается или даже не скачивается. Да и сам компьютер иногда чудит, и тогда в Kingpin: Life of Crime вместо картинки черный экран, не работает управление, не слышно звук или что-нибудь еще.
Что сделать в первую очередь
- Скачайте и запустите всемирно известный CCleaner (скачать по прямой ссылке) — это программа, которая очистит ваш компьютер от ненужного мусора, в результате чего система станет работать быстрее после первой же перезагрузки;
- Обновите все драйверы в системе с помощью программы Driver Updater (скачать по прямой ссылке) — она просканирует ваш компьютер и обновит все драйверы до актуальной версии за 5 минут;
- Установите Advanced System Optimizer (скачать по прямой ссылке) и включите в ней игровой режим, который завершит бесполезные фоновые процессы во время запуска игр и повысит производительность в игре.
Системные требования Kingpin: Life of Crime
Второе, что стоит сделать при возникновении каких-либо проблем с Kingpin: Life of Crime, это свериться с системными требованиями. По-хорошему делать это нужно еще до покупки, чтобы не пожалеть о потраченных деньгах.
Минимальные системные требования Kingpin: Life of Crime:
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Каждому геймеру следует хотя бы немного разбираться в комплектующих, знать, зачем нужна видеокарта, процессор и другие штуки в системном блоке.
Файлы, драйверы и библиотеки
Практически каждое устройство в компьютере требует набор специального программного обеспечения. Это драйверы, библиотеки и прочие файлы, которые обеспечивают правильную работу компьютера.
Начать стоит с драйверов для видеокарты. Современные графические карты производятся только двумя крупными компаниями — Nvidia и AMD. Выяснив, продукт какой из них крутит кулерами в системном блоке, отправляемся на официальный сайт и загружаем пакет свежих драйверов:
- Скачать драйвер для видеокарты Nvidia GeForce
- Скачать драйвер для видеокарты AMD Radeon
Обязательным условием для успешного функционирования Kingpin: Life of Crime является наличие самых свежих драйверов для всех устройств в системе. Скачайте утилиту Driver Updater, чтобы легко и быстро загрузить последние версии драйверов и установить их одним щелчком мыши:
- загрузите Driver Updater и запустите программу;
- произведите сканирование системы (обычно оно занимает не более пяти минут);
- обновите устаревшие драйверы одним щелчком мыши.
Фоновые процессы всегда влияют на производительность. Вы можете существенно увеличить FPS, очистив ваш ПК от мусорных файлов и включив специальный игровой режим с помощью программы Advanced System Optimizer
- загрузите Advanced System Optimizer и запустите программу;
- произведите сканирование системы (обычно оно занимает не более пяти минут);
- выполните все требуемые действия. Ваша система работает как новая!
Когда с драйверами закончено, можно заняться установкой актуальных библиотек — DirectX и .NET Framework. Они так или иначе используются практически во всех современных играх:
- Скачать DirectX
- Скачать Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
- Скачать Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Еще одна важная штука — это библиотеки расширения Visual C++, которые также требуются для работы Kingpin: Life of Crime. Ссылок много, так что мы решили сделать отдельный список для них:
- Скачать Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1
- Скачать Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (32-бит) (Скачать Service Pack 1)
- Скачать Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (64-бит) (Скачать Service Pack 1)
- Скачать Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (32-бит) (Скачать Service Pack 1)
- Скачать Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (64-бит) (Скачать Service Pack 1)
- Скачать Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Update 4
- Скачать Microsoft Visual C++ 2013
Если вы дошли до этого места — поздравляем! Наиболее скучная и рутинная часть подготовки компьютера к геймингу завершена. Дальше мы рассмотрим типовые проблемы, возникающие в играх, а также кратко наметим пути их решения.
Kingpin: Life of Crime не скачивается. Долгое скачивание. Решение
Скорость лично вашего интернет-канала не является единственно определяющей скорость загрузки. Если раздающий сервер работает на скорости, скажем, 5 Мб в секунду, то ваши 100 Мб делу не помогут.
Если Kingpin: Life of Crime совсем не скачивается, то это может происходить сразу по куче причин: неправильно настроен роутер, проблемы на стороне провайдера, кот погрыз кабель или, в конце-концов, упавший сервер на стороне сервиса, откуда скачивается игра.
Kingpin: Life of Crime не устанавливается. Прекращена установка. Решение
Перед тем, как начать установку Kingpin: Life of Crime, нужно еще раз обязательно проверить, какой объем она занимает на диске. Если же проблема с наличием свободного места на диске исключена, то следует провести диагностику диска. Возможно, в нем уже накопилось много «битых» секторов, и он банально неисправен?
В Windows есть стандартные средства проверки состояния HDD- и SSD-накопителей, но лучше всего воспользоваться специализированными программами.
Но нельзя также исключать и вероятность того, что из-за обрыва соединения загрузка прошла неудачно, такое тоже бывает. А если устанавливаете Kingpin: Life of Crime с диска, то стоит поглядеть, нет ли на носителе царапин и чужеродных веществ!
Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается. Ошибка при запуске. Решение
Kingpin: Life of Crime установилась, но попросту отказывается работать. Как быть?
Выдает ли Kingpin: Life of Crime какую-нибудь ошибку после вылета? Если да, то какой у нее текст? Возможно, она не поддерживает вашу видеокарту или какое-то другое оборудование? Или ей не хватает оперативной памяти?
Помните, что разработчики сами заинтересованы в том, чтобы встроить в игры систему описания ошибки при сбое. Им это нужно, чтобы понять, почему их проект не запускается при тестировании.
Обязательно запишите текст ошибки. Если вы не владеете иностранным языком, то обратитесь на официальный форум разработчиков Kingpin: Life of Crime. Также будет полезно заглянуть в крупные игровые сообщества и, конечно, в наш FAQ.
Если Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается, мы рекомендуем вам попробовать отключить ваш антивирус или поставить игру в исключения антивируса, а также еще раз проверить соответствие системным требованиям и если что-то из вашей сборки не соответствует, то по возможности улучшить свой ПК, докупив более мощные комплектующие.
В Kingpin: Life of Crime черный экран, белый экран, цветной экран. Решение
Проблемы с экранами разных цветов можно условно разделить на 2 категории.
Во-первых, они часто связаны с использованием сразу двух видеокарт. Например, если ваша материнская плата имеет встроенную видеокарту, но играете вы на дискретной, то Kingpin: Life of Crime может в первый раз запускаться на встроенной, при этом самой игры вы не увидите, ведь монитор подключен к дискретной видеокарте.
Во-вторых, цветные экраны бывают при проблемах с выводом изображения на экран. Это может происходить по разным причинам. Например, Kingpin: Life of Crime не может наладить работу через устаревший драйвер или не поддерживает видеокарту. Также черный/белый экран может выводиться при работе на разрешениях, которые не поддерживаются игрой.
Kingpin: Life of Crime вылетает. В определенный или случайный момент. Решение
Играете вы себе, играете и тут — бац! — все гаснет, и вот уже перед вами рабочий стол без какого-либо намека на игру. Почему так происходит? Для решения проблемы стоит попробовать разобраться, какой характер имеет проблема.
Если вылет происходит в случайный момент времени без какой-то закономерности, то с вероятностью в 99% можно сказать, что это ошибка самой игры. В таком случае исправить что-то очень трудно, и лучше всего просто отложить Kingpin: Life of Crime в сторону и дождаться патча.
Однако если вы точно знаете, в какие моменты происходит вылет, то можно и продолжить игру, избегая ситуаций, которые провоцируют сбой.
Однако если вы точно знаете, в какие моменты происходит вылет, то можно и продолжить игру, избегая ситуаций, которые провоцируют сбой. Кроме того, можно скачать сохранение Kingpin: Life of Crime в нашем файловом архиве и обойти место вылета.
Kingpin: Life of Crime зависает. Картинка застывает. Решение
Ситуация примерно такая же, как и с вылетами: многие зависания напрямую связаны с самой игрой, а вернее с ошибкой разработчика при ее создании. Впрочем, нередко застывшая картинка может стать отправной точкой для расследования плачевного состояния видеокарты или процессора.
Так что если картинка в Kingpin: Life of Crime застывает, то воспользуйтесь программами для вывода статистики по загрузке комплектующих. Быть может, ваша видеокарта уже давно исчерпала свой рабочий ресурс или процессор греется до опасных температур?
Проверить загрузку и температуры для видеокарты и процессоров проще всего в программе MSI Afterburner. При желании можно даже выводить эти и многие другие параметры поверх картинки Kingpin: Life of Crime.
Какие температуры опасны? Процессоры и видеокарты имеют разные рабочие температуры. У видеокарт они обычно составляют 60-80 градусов по Цельсию. У процессоров немного ниже — 40-70 градусов. Если температура процессора выше, то следует проверить состояние термопасты. Возможно, она уже высохла и требует замены.
Если греется видеокарта, то стоит воспользоваться драйвером или официальной утилитой от производителя. Нужно увеличить количество оборотов кулеров и проверить, снизится ли рабочая температура.
Kingpin: Life of Crime тормозит. Низкий FPS. Просадки частоты кадров. Решение
При тормозах и низкой частоте кадров в Kingpin: Life of Crime первым делом стоит снизить настройки графики. Разумеется, их много, поэтому прежде чем снижать все подряд, стоит узнать, как именно те или иные настройки влияют на производительность.Разрешение экрана. Если кратко, то это количество точек, из которого складывается картинка игры. Чем больше разрешение, тем выше нагрузка на видеокарту. Впрочем, повышение нагрузки незначительное, поэтому снижать разрешение экрана следует только в самую последнюю очередь, когда все остальное уже не помогает.Качество текстур. Как правило, этот параметр определяет разрешение файлов текстур. Снизить качество текстур следует в случае если видеокарта обладает небольшим запасом видеопамяти (меньше 4 ГБ) или если используется очень старый жесткий диск, скорость оборотов шпинделя у которого меньше 7200.Качество моделей (иногда просто детализация). Эта настройка определяет, какой набор 3D-моделей будет использоваться в игре. Чем выше качество, тем больше полигонов. Соответственно, высокополигональные модели требуют большей вычислительной мощности видекарты (не путать с объемом видеопамяти!), а значит снижать этот параметр следует на видеокартах с низкой частотой ядра или памяти.Тени. Бывают реализованы по-разному. В одних играх тени создаются динамически, то есть они просчитываются в реальном времени в каждую секунду игры. Такие динамические тени загружают и процессор, и видеокарту. В целях оптимизации разработчики часто отказываются от полноценного рендера и добавляют в игру пре-рендер теней. Они статичные, потому как по сути это просто текстуры, накладывающиеся поверх основных текстур, а значит загружают они память, а не ядро видеокарты.Нередко разработчики добавляют дополнительные настройки, связанные с тенями:
- Разрешение теней — определяет, насколько детальной будет тень, отбрасываемая объектом. Если в игре динамические тени, то загружает ядро видеокарты, а если используется заранее созданный рендер, то «ест» видеопамять.
- Мягкие тени — сглаживание неровностей на самих тенях, обычно эта опция дается вместе с динамическими тенями. Вне зависимости от типа теней нагружает видеокарту в реальном времени.
Сглаживание. Позволяет избавиться от некрасивых углов на краях объектов за счет использования специального алгоритма, суть которого обычно сводится к тому, чтобы генерировать сразу несколько изображений и сопоставлять их, высчитывая наиболее «гладкую» картинку. Существует много разных алгоритмов сглаживания, которые отличаются по уровню влияния на быстродействие Kingpin: Life of Crime.Например, MSAA работает «в лоб», создавая сразу 2, 4 или 8 рендеров, поэтому частота кадров снижается соответственно в 2, 4 или 8 раз. Такие алгоритмы как FXAA и TAA действуют немного иначе, добиваясь сглаженной картинки путем высчитывания исключительно краев и с помощью некоторых других ухищрений. Благодаря этому они не так сильно снижают производительность.Освещение. Как и в случае со сглаживанием, существуют разные алгоритмы эффектов освещения: SSAO, HBAO, HDAO. Все они используют ресурсы видеокарты, но делают это по-разному в зависимости от самой видеокарты. Дело в том, что алгоритм HBAO продвигался в основном на видеокартах от Nvidia (линейка GeForce), поэтому лучше всего работает именно на «зеленых». HDAO же, наоборот, оптимизирован под видеокарты от AMD. SSAO — это наиболее простой тип освещения, он потребляет меньше всего ресурсов, поэтому в случае тормозов в Kingpin: Life of Crime стоит переключиться него.Что снижать в первую очередь? Как правило, наибольшую нагрузку вызывают тени, сглаживание и эффекты освещения, так что лучше начать именно с них.Часто геймерам самим приходится заниматься оптимизацией Kingpin: Life of Crime. Практически по всем крупным релизам есть различные соответствующие и форумы, где пользователи делятся своими способами повышения производительности.
Один из них — специальная программа под названием Advanced System Optimizer. Она сделана специально для тех, кто не хочет вручную вычищать компьютер от разных временных файлов, удалять ненужные записи реестра и редактировать список автозагрузки. Advanced System Optimizer сама сделает это, а также проанализирует компьютер, чтобы выявить, как можно улучшить производительность в приложениях и играх.
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Kingpin: Life of Crime лагает. Большая задержка при игре. Решение
Многие путают «тормоза» с «лагами», но эти проблемы имеют совершенно разные причины. Kingpin: Life of Crime тормозит, когда снижается частота кадров, с которой картинка выводится на монитор, и лагает, когда задержка при обращении к серверу или любому другому хосту слишком высокая.
Именно поэтому «лаги» могут быть только в сетевых играх. Причины разные: плохой сетевой код, физическая удаленность от серверов, загруженность сети, неправильно настроенный роутер, низкая скорость интернет-соединения.
Впрочем, последнее бывает реже всего. В онлайн-играх общение клиента и сервера происходит путем обмена относительно короткими сообщениями, поэтому даже 10 Мб в секунду должно хватить за глаза.
В Kingpin: Life of Crime нет звука. Ничего не слышно. Решение
Kingpin: Life of Crime работает, но почему-то не звучит — это еще одна проблема, с которой сталкиваются геймеры. Конечно, можно играть и так, но все-таки лучше разобраться, в чем дело.
Сначала нужно определить масштаб проблемы. Где именно нет звука — только в игре или вообще на компьютере? Если только в игре, то, возможно, это обусловлено тем, что звуковая карта очень старая и не поддерживает DirectX.
Если же звука нет вообще, то дело однозначно в настройке компьютера. Возможно, неправильно установлены драйвера звуковой карты, а может быть звука нет из-за какой-то специфической ошибки нашей любимой ОС Windows.
В Kingpin: Life of Crime не работает управление. Kingpin: Life of Crime не видит мышь, клавиатуру или геймпад. Решение
Как играть, если невозможно управлять процессом? Проблемы поддержки специфических устройств тут неуместны, ведь речь идет о привычных девайсах — клавиатуре, мыши и контроллере.
Таким образом, ошибки в самой игре практически исключены, почти всегда проблема на стороне пользователя. Решить ее можно по-разному, но, так или иначе, придется обращаться к драйверу. Обычно при подключении нового устройства операционная система сразу же пытается задействовать один из стандартных драйверов, но некоторые модели клавиатур, мышей и геймпадов несовместимы с ними.
Таким образом, нужно узнать точную модель устройства и постараться найти именно ее драйвер. Часто с устройствами от известных геймерских брендов идут собственные комплекты ПО, так как стандартный драйвер Windows банально не может обеспечить правильную работу всех функций того или иного устройства.
Если искать драйверы для всех устройств по отдельности не хочется, то можно воспользоваться программой Driver Updater. Она предназначена для автоматического поиска драйверов, так что нужно будет только дождаться результатов сканирования и загрузить нужные драйвера в интерфейсе программы.
Нередко тормоза в Kingpin: Life of Crime могут быть вызваны вирусами. В таком случае нет разницы, насколько мощная видеокарта стоит в системном блоке. Проверить компьютер и отчистить его от вирусов и другого нежелательного ПО можно с помощью специальных программ. Например NOD32. Антивирус зарекомендовал себя с наилучшей стороны и получили одобрение миллионов пользователей по всему миру.
ZoneAlarm подходит как для личного использования, так и для малого бизнеса, способен защитить компьютер с операционной системой Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista и Windows XP от любых атак: фишинговых, вирусов, вредоносных программ, шпионских программ и других кибер угроз. Новым пользователям предоставляется 30-дневный бесплатный период.
Nod32 — анитивирус от компании ESET, которая была удостоена многих наград за вклад в развитие безопасности. На сайте разработчика доступны версии анивирусных программ как для ПК, так и для мобильных устройств, предоставляется 30-дневная пробная версия. Есть специальные условия для бизнеса.
Kingpin: Life of Crime, скачанная с торрента не работает. Решение
Если дистрибутив игры был загружен через торрент, то никаких гарантий работы быть в принципе не может. Торренты и репаки практически никогда не обновляются через официальные приложения и не работают по сети, потому что по ходу взлома хакеры вырезают из игр все сетевые функции, которые часто используются для проверки лицензии.
Такие версии игр использовать не просто неудобно, а даже опасно, ведь очень часто в них изменены многие файлы. Например, для обхода защиты пираты модифицируют EXE-файл. При этом никто не знает, что они еще с ним делают. Быть может, они встраивают само-исполняющееся программное обеспечение. Например, майнер, который при первом запуске игры встроится в систему и будет использовать ее ресурсы для обеспечения благосостояния хакеров. Или вирус, дающий доступ к компьютеру третьим лицам. Тут никаких гарантий нет и быть не может.
К тому же использование пиратских версий — это, по мнению нашего издания, воровство. Разработчики потратили много времени на создание игры, вкладывали свои собственные средства в надежде на то, что их детище окупится. А каждый труд должен быть оплачен.
Поэтому при возникновении каких-либо проблем с играми, скачанными с торрентов или же взломанных с помощью тех или иных средств, следует сразу же удалить «пиратку», почистить компьютер при помощи антивируса и приобрести лицензионную копию игры. Это не только убережет от сомнительного ПО, но и позволит скачивать обновления для игры и получать официальную поддержку от ее создателей.
Kingpin: Life of Crime выдает ошибку об отсутствии DLL-файла. Решение
Как правило, проблемы, связанные с отсутствием DLL-библиотек, возникают при запуске Kingpin: Life of Crime, однако иногда игра может обращаться к определенным DLL в процессе и, не найдя их, вылетать самым наглым образом.
Чтобы исправить эту ошибку, нужно найти необходимую библиотеку DLL и установить ее в систему. Проще всего сделать это с помощью программы DLL-fixer, которая сканирует систему и помогает быстро найти недостающие библиотеки.
Если ваша проблема оказалась более специфической или же способ, изложенный в данной статье, не помог, то вы можете спросить у других пользователей в нашей рубрике «Вопросы и ответы». Они оперативно помогут вам!
Благодарим за внимание!
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Щелчок правой кнопкой по ярлыку или исполняемому файлу -> «Свойства» -> вкладка «Совместимость», далее всё очевидно.
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Atom_ak
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Fabricator
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Хелпер
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Сообщением выше MisterGrim уже объяснил, каким образом выставить совместимость. Вы прочитали?..
Еще раз: правый щелчок на пусковом файле —> «Свойства» —> «Совместимость» —> «Запустить программу в режиме совместимости с…» —> «Windows 95».Последнее редактирование: 11 май 2009
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Fabricator, только я поправлю: в случае конкретной игры совместимость должна быть именно с Windows 95, а не Windows 98.
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Для тех, у кого возникли заморочки при настройке клавиатуры в русскоязычной версии, предлагаю весьма эргономически удобную (имхо) раскладку в виде файла «AUTOEXEC.cfg». Также в архиве находится подробнейший мануал по всем необходимым командам в игре (в привязке к этой раскладке).
Надеюсь, что это поможет сэкономить время и нервы тем, кто взялся за эту игру впервые.Вложения:
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zoromo27
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я понял как победить квадраты!=)
ребят я понял как сделать чтобы текстуры не проподали сам думал как так и не xp виновата! а просто если у тебя windowsxp у мя sp-3 то уж извините меня конечно но придеться все текстуры они будут у вас в jpg! сконвертить в tga ! я лично так и сделал и все вот так офигенно стало все нормально! я использовал программу всего одну! ifanviev =) кому надо помочь пишите! выложу свою сборкус нормальными текстурами! сам додумался до этого!…вот не нравиться почему то ему jpg=)
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Хм. Странно. И ты уверен, что на это влияет именно SP3?
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Имхо, давно уже это позорище надо заменить на нормальную версию…
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MisterGrim, можно чуть конкретнее?
Насколько я понимаю, у нас сейчас две версии: а) английская полная (full-rip), которую делал SMArt и где с текстурами всё в порядке (до этого и правда была глючная в этом плане английская версия); б) русская версия с матерной озвучкой, у которой (лично у меня) проблем с текстурами нет (только с управлением, но выложенная раскладка их решает). -
zoromo27
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подожду до 1 ого у меня будет вы сокая скорость инета! может еще чего выложу!
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biz_soft
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Добрый день,
в который раз уже пытаюсь запустить и пройти Kingpin но все тщетно. Перелопатил весь форум, но решение не нашел. Суть проблемы такова. У меня Win7 на железе Acer 1,73 Ghz, 1 GB DDR, Intel GMA 950 (видео) — далеко не openGL и 3Dfx к сожалению. В общем игра устанавливается нормально, но начиная с первого ролика жутко тормозит! Красных квадратов нет и искажений никаких нет — просто кадр за кадром идет с жуткими тормозами. Я дождался когда все же ролик закончится на этих тормозах и загрузится игра — все получилось игра запустилась, но тоже с жуткими тормозами!!! в общем невозможно в таком варианте получить желаемый эффект. Я смотрел советы и перепробовал все: и файлы sound.bat texures.bat создовал и через Dosbox пытался и Прописывал совместимость с Windows 95, даже ставил Эмулятор 3dfx не помогло. Версия 1.21 русская. Help me please!!! -
Эмулятор 3dfx надо ставить не просто так, а ещё и переключать рендерер в игре. Вот только я не помню, есть ли в Kingpin поддержка 3dfx.
Могу посоветовать следующее (помогало на Intel 810, хотя это далеко не GMA 950): открыть консоль и ввести там команду gl_ext_multitexture 0.
oFF_rus и kreol нравится это.
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Если что — я проходил игру (русскую версию с сайта с совместимостью с Windows 95 [это важно]) на ноутбуке с XP/Intel 945GM, проходил далеко, ни единой проблемы с изображением не было, а совместимость была нужна для того, чтобы игра не вылетала при стрельбе из гранатомёта (а так она и без неё работает).
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biz_soft
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В Kingpin есть поддержка 3dfx, я переключал (главное меню игры-графика-драйвер видеокарты) выбирал 3dfx, но монитор поморгает, поморгает и все на круги своя…
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Ок, я проходил эту игру раз 10-12 на протяжении последних 10 лет — стабильно 1 в год! как в «Иронии судьбы» была традиция ходить в баню под новый год, так и у меня поиграть в любимую игру! Естественно на протяжении 10 лет менялось железо, менялись дрова, окна… но всегда удавалось настроить применяя больше или меньше усилий… В этот раз все не так. Я качал разные версии и русские и английские и Фаргус и не фаргус (пять различных сборок) все пустое! Я же не выдумал проблему… Игра запускается! Hard Device не вылетает (как было иногда лет 5 назад) все отл! но она ТОРМОЗИТ!!! как будто светомузыку на танцполе включили! но танцевать вообще желания нет
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biz_soft, так а разве я сказал, что я тебе не верю?! Верю, охотно притом. Просто пока даже предположить не могу, в чём может быть проблема. Разве что в ОС, потому как на такой системе как таковой игра вполне должна работать. Ну, или всё дело в драйверах на видеокарту, а может, и в самой версии (у тебя какая, кстати?)…
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biz_soft
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Мужчины, знали бы вы какая радость произошла в моей жизни!!! Собственно говоря я сделал следующее — создал ярлык на рабочем столе, прописал «kingpin.exe +developer 1» запустил консоль и ввел «gl_ext_multitexture 0» — и вот оно счастье большое!!! Спасибо kreol и отдельное огромное спасибо MisterGrim!!! порадовал старика))
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Kingpin
Здравствуйте! Скачал у вас Kingpin. русскую версию. незапускаются. запустил сначала в рус дир. Startrus. А потом в корне ЕХЕ. Выдает Hardware device not found. В блокнотиках записал
1. в директории /kingpin создаем файлик sound.bat , внутри него пишем
@echo off
cd mainsound
mp3unpak sound.pak
cd ..
cd ..
cd main
copy alchemy.exe %windir%alchemy.exe2. создаем в директории /kingpin/Main файлик texures.bat c вот таким содержанием:
@echo offfor /R %%i in (*.jpg) do (
alchemy -a %%i %%~dpni.tga
del %%i
)Потом разрешение ТХТ поменял на BAT. Затем запускаем сначала sound.bat потом texures.bat.
Потом пробую запустить ЕХЕ в корне и опять Выдает Hardware device not found. Может я что-то не так делаю? Помогите пожалуйста. Я игру уже раз 50 скачивал со всего Интернета, раз 30 с вашего сайта пока ненашел что не у меня одного возникла такая проблема. У меня Пентиум 4 CPU 2.00GHz. 2.02 ГГц. Окна XP наромальная сборка (не зверь) версия 2002 года SP3. Видеокарта GeForce Fx5200. Звук интегрированный в мать. Все что было у Вас на форуме прочиталю Может драйвер видеокартыю Но я незнаю что икак с ним делать и боюсь напортачить.Всё прочитал а поиском не воспользовался…Темы объединены. / SAS
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так я сначала все прочитал и ппробовал со страницы http://www.old-games.ru/forum/archive/index.php/t-12538.html. на которую наткнулся набрав в яндексе Hardware device not found. и еще подскажите пожалуйста как запустить игру вот так kingpin.exe +developer 1 и как потом открыть консоль? и может как нибудь можно мне запустить русскую версию а то я в английском несилен. а хочется знать что говорят а непросто всех мочить. Заранее огромное спасибо.
Последнее редактирование: 1 дек 2009
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Русская версия должна работать нормально, если у тебя не работает — то, скорее всего, это проблемы твоей системы. Все такие ошибки, кстати, характерны в первую очередь для старой английской версии, которой на сайте уже нет.
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английская версия с этого сайта запустилась наромально. а вот охота в русскую поигать. и как запустить игру чтоб коды использовать. и куда их потом вводить?
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английская версия с этого сайта запустилась наромально. а вот охота в русскую поигать. и как запустить игру чтоб коды использовать. и куда их потом вводить?
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английская версия с этого сайта запустилась наромально. а вот охота в русскую поигать. и как запустить игру чтоб коды использовать. и куда их потом вводить?
Глючит или не запускается Kingpin: Life of Crime? Решение есть! Постоянные лаги и зависания — не проблема! После установки мода Kingpin: Life of Crime начала глючить или НПС не реагируют на завершение задания? И на этот вопрос найдется ответ! На этой странице вы сможете найти решение для любых известных проблем с игрой и обсудить их на форуме.
Содержание
- Игра не запускается (2001)
- Игра тормозит и лагает
- Проблемы с модами
- Ошибки загрузки/обновления
- Вопросы по прохождению
- Kingpin: Life of Crime → Решение проблем
- Решение проблем Kingpin: Life of Crime
- Решение проблем в Kingpin: Life of Crime — не устанавливается? Не запускается? Тормозит? Вылетает? Лагает? Ошибка? Не загружается?
- Что сделать в первую очередь
- Системные требования Kingpin: Life of Crime
- Файлы, драйверы и библиотеки
- Kingpin: Life of Crime не скачивается. Долгое скачивание. Решение
- Kingpin: Life of Crime не устанавливается. Прекращена установка. Решение
- Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается. Ошибка при запуске. Решение
- В Kingpin: Life of Crime черный экран, белый экран, цветной экран. Решение
- Kingpin: Life of Crime вылетает. В определенный или случайный момент. Решение
- Kingpin: Life of Crime зависает. Картинка застывает. Решение
- Kingpin: Life of Crime тормозит. Низкий FPS. Просадки частоты кадров. Решение
- Kingpin: Life of Crime лагает. Большая задержка при игре. Решение
- В Kingpin: Life of Crime нет звука. Ничего не слышно. Решение
- В Kingpin: Life of Crime не работает управление. Kingpin: Life of Crime не видит мышь, клавиатуру или геймпад. Решение
- Kingpin: Life of Crime, скачанная с торрента не работает. Решение
- Kingpin: Life of Crime выдает ошибку об отсутствии DLL-файла. Решение
- Kingpin: Life of Crime → Оптимизация для слабых ПК
- Оптимизация для слабых ПК Kingpin: Life of Crime
- Простое решение тормозов в Kingpin: Life of Crime
- Освободить место на диске
- Отключить ненужные программы
- Отключить оверлеи
- Обновить драйвера видеокарты, скачать драйвера для Kingpin: Life of Crime
- Изменить параметры электропитания
- Включить режим производительности Nvidia
- Отключить эффекты Windows
- Увеличить файл подкачки, если не хватает оперативной памяти для Kingpin: Life of Crime
- Как разогнать видеокарту для Kingpin: Life of Crime
- Разогнать процессор
Игра не запускается (2001)
Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается/вылетает.
О: В первую очередь проверьте совместимость игры с вашей версией операционной системы.
Если у вас установлена Windows 7 и ниже, то выставьте параметры запуска на совместимость с Windows XP sp3. Для этого зайдите в свойства ярлыка, вызвав контекстное меню нажатием правой кнопки мыши, перейдите во вкладку “Совместимость” и выберете соответствующий параметр.
Если данный способ не помог, или у вас установлена Windows 8 или 10, то рекомендуем воспользоваться сторонними патчами для запуска игры на современных компьютерах. Скачать их можно или с сайта разработчика, или из нашего раздела.
Я скачал Kingpin: Life of Crime из магазина, но она не работает.
О: Большая часть старых игр представленных в каталогах Steam и GOG полностью оптимизированы для современных систем, но встречаются исключения. Рекомендуем внимательно прочитать описание на странице магазина, где могут быть указаны советы по запуску игры. Также рекомендуем воспользоваться советами изложенными выше.
Kingpin: Life of Crime выдает ошибку “программа не является приложением win32”.
О: В данном случае для запуска программы потребуется установить гостевую операционную систему или определенный эмулятор. Подробнее обсудить вопрос можно на форуме игры.
Kingpin: Life of Crime вылетает во время катсцен/не проигрывает ролики.
О: Установите Bink Player. Скачать его можно с официального сайта или поискать в разделе файлы на нашем сайте.
Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается в оконном/полноэкранном режиме.
О: Проверьте наличие официального патча или сторонних загрузчиков на сайте разработчика или в разделе файлы. Внимание! Для запуска может потребоваться дополнительное ПО, так что внимательнее читайте описание.
Не работает сетевая игры в Kingpin: Life of Crime.
О: Запуск старых игры в режиме сетевой игры, зачастую, возможен только посредством эмуляции локального подключения между компьютерами. Для его создания можно использовать такие программы как Tunngle. Также существуют и готовые варианты вроде Hamachi.
Игра тормозит и лагает
Скорее всего данная проблема носит аппаратный характер. Проверьте системные требования игры и установите корректные настройки качества графики. Подробнее об оптимизации игры можно почитать на форуме. Также загляните в раздел файлов, где найдутся программы для оптимизации Kingpin: Life of Crime для работы на слабых ПК. Ниже рассмотрены исключительные случаи.
Появились тормоза в игре.
О: Проверьте компьютер на вирусы, отключите лишние фоновые процессы и неиспользуемые программы в диспетчере задач. Также стоит проверить состояние жесткого диска с помощью специализированных программ по типу Hard Drive Inspector. Проверьте температуру процессора и видеокарты —возможно пришла пора обслужить ваш компьютер.
Долгие загрузки в игре.
О: Проверьте состояние своего жесткого диска. Рекомендуется удалить лишние моды — они могут сильно влиять на продолжительность загрузок. Проверьте настройки антивируса и обязательно установите в нём “игровой режим” или его аналог.
Kingpin: Life of Crime лагает.
О: Причинами периодических тормозов (фризов или лагов) в Kingpin: Life of Crime могут быть запущенные в фоновом режиме приложения. Особое внимание следует уделить программам вроде Discord и Skype. Если лаги есть и в других играх, то рекомендуем проверить состояние жесткого диска — скорее всего пришла пора заменить его.
Проблемы с модами
Ошибки загрузки/обновления
Проверьте стабильность подключения к интернету, а также скорость загрузки. При слишком высоком пинге или низкой пропускной способности обновление может выдавать ошибки.
Если магазин или лончер Kingpin: Life of Crime не завершает обновления или выдает ошибки, то переустановите саму программу. При этом все скачанные вами игры сохранятся.
Запустите проверку целостности данных игры.
Проверьте наличие свободного места на том диске, на котором установлена игра, а также на диске с операционной системой. И в том и в другом случае должно быть свободно места не меньше, чем занимает игра на текущий момент. В идеале всегда иметь запас около 100Гб.
Проверьте настройки антивируса и “Защитника Windows”, а также разрешения в брандмауэре. Вполне возможно они ограничивают подключение к интернету для ряда приложений. Данную проблему можно решить и полной переустановкой магазина или лончера т.к. большинство из них попросит предоставить доступ к интернету в процессе инсталляции.
О специфических ошибках связанных с последними обновлениями можно узнать на форуме игры.
Вопросы по прохождению
Ответы на все вопросы касающиеся прохождения Kingpin: Life of Crime можно найти в соответствующих разделах Wiki, а также на нашем форуме. Не стесняйтесь задавать вопросы и делиться своими советами и решениями.
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Решение проблем Kingpin: Life of Crime
Решение проблем в Kingpin: Life of Crime — не устанавливается? Не запускается? Тормозит? Вылетает? Лагает? Ошибка? Не загружается?
К сожалению, в играх бывают изъяны: тормоза, низкий FPS, вылеты, зависания, баги и другие мелкие и не очень ошибки. Нередко проблемы начинаются еще до начала игры, когда она не устанавливается, не загружается или даже не скачивается. Да и сам компьютер иногда чудит, и тогда в Kingpin: Life of Crime вместо картинки черный экран, не работает управление, не слышно звук или что-нибудь еще.
Что сделать в первую очередь
Системные требования Kingpin: Life of Crime
Второе, что стоит сделать при возникновении каких-либо проблем с Kingpin: Life of Crime, это свериться с системными требованиями. По-хорошему делать это нужно еще до покупки, чтобы не пожалеть о потраченных деньгах.
Минимальные системные требования Kingpin: Life of Crime:
Win 95, Процессор: Intel Pentium II 233MHz, 32 MB ОЗУ, AMD Rage 128 Ultra 16MB Видеопамять: 4MB
Каждому геймеру следует хотя бы немного разбираться в комплектующих, знать, зачем нужна видеокарта, процессор и другие штуки в системном блоке.
Файлы, драйверы и библиотеки
Практически каждое устройство в компьютере требует набор специального программного обеспечения. Это драйверы, библиотеки и прочие файлы, которые обеспечивают правильную работу компьютера.
Начать стоит с драйверов для видеокарты. Современные графические карты производятся только двумя крупными компаниями — Nvidia и AMD. Выяснив, продукт какой из них крутит кулерами в системном блоке, отправляемся на официальный сайт и загружаем пакет свежих драйверов:
Обязательным условием для успешного функционирования Kingpin: Life of Crime является наличие самых свежих драйверов для всех устройств в системе. Скачайте утилиту Driver Updater, чтобы легко и быстро загрузить последние версии драйверов и установить их одним щелчком мыши:
Фоновые процессы всегда влияют на производительность. Вы можете существенно увеличить FPS, очистив ваш ПК от мусорных файлов и включив специальный игровой режим с помощью программы Advanced System Optimizer
Kingpin: Life of Crime не скачивается. Долгое скачивание. Решение
Скорость лично вашего интернет-канала не является единственно определяющей скорость загрузки. Если раздающий сервер работает на скорости, скажем, 5 Мб в секунду, то ваши 100 Мб делу не помогут.
Если Kingpin: Life of Crime совсем не скачивается, то это может происходить сразу по куче причин: неправильно настроен роутер, проблемы на стороне провайдера, кот погрыз кабель или, в конце-концов, упавший сервер на стороне сервиса, откуда скачивается игра.
Kingpin: Life of Crime не устанавливается. Прекращена установка. Решение
Перед тем, как начать установку Kingpin: Life of Crime, нужно еще раз обязательно проверить, какой объем она занимает на диске. Если же проблема с наличием свободного места на диске исключена, то следует провести диагностику диска. Возможно, в нем уже накопилось много «битых» секторов, и он банально неисправен?
В Windows есть стандартные средства проверки состояния HDD- и SSD-накопителей, но лучше всего воспользоваться специализированными программами.
Но нельзя также исключать и вероятность того, что из-за обрыва соединения загрузка прошла неудачно, такое тоже бывает. А если устанавливаете Kingpin: Life of Crime с диска, то стоит поглядеть, нет ли на носителе царапин и чужеродных веществ!
Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается. Ошибка при запуске. Решение
Kingpin: Life of Crime установилась, но попросту отказывается работать. Как быть?
Выдает ли Kingpin: Life of Crime какую-нибудь ошибку после вылета? Если да, то какой у нее текст? Возможно, она не поддерживает вашу видеокарту или какое-то другое оборудование? Или ей не хватает оперативной памяти?
Помните, что разработчики сами заинтересованы в том, чтобы встроить в игры систему описания ошибки при сбое. Им это нужно, чтобы понять, почему их проект не запускается при тестировании.
Обязательно запишите текст ошибки. Если вы не владеете иностранным языком, то обратитесь на официальный форум разработчиков Kingpin: Life of Crime. Также будет полезно заглянуть в крупные игровые сообщества и, конечно, в наш FAQ.
Если Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается, мы рекомендуем вам попробовать отключить ваш антивирус или поставить игру в исключения антивируса, а также еще раз проверить соответствие системным требованиям и если что-то из вашей сборки не соответствует, то по возможности улучшить свой ПК, докупив более мощные комплектующие.
В Kingpin: Life of Crime черный экран, белый экран, цветной экран. Решение
Проблемы с экранами разных цветов можно условно разделить на 2 категории.
Во-первых, они часто связаны с использованием сразу двух видеокарт. Например, если ваша материнская плата имеет встроенную видеокарту, но играете вы на дискретной, то Kingpin: Life of Crime может в первый раз запускаться на встроенной, при этом самой игры вы не увидите, ведь монитор подключен к дискретной видеокарте.
Во-вторых, цветные экраны бывают при проблемах с выводом изображения на экран. Это может происходить по разным причинам. Например, Kingpin: Life of Crime не может наладить работу через устаревший драйвер или не поддерживает видеокарту. Также черный/белый экран может выводиться при работе на разрешениях, которые не поддерживаются игрой.
Kingpin: Life of Crime вылетает. В определенный или случайный момент. Решение
Играете вы себе, играете и тут — бац! — все гаснет, и вот уже перед вами рабочий стол без какого-либо намека на игру. Почему так происходит? Для решения проблемы стоит попробовать разобраться, какой характер имеет проблема.
Если вылет происходит в случайный момент времени без какой-то закономерности, то с вероятностью в 99% можно сказать, что это ошибка самой игры. В таком случае исправить что-то очень трудно, и лучше всего просто отложить Kingpin: Life of Crime в сторону и дождаться патча.
Однако если вы точно знаете, в какие моменты происходит вылет, то можно и продолжить игру, избегая ситуаций, которые провоцируют сбой.
Однако если вы точно знаете, в какие моменты происходит вылет, то можно и продолжить игру, избегая ситуаций, которые провоцируют сбой. Кроме того, можно скачать сохранение Kingpin: Life of Crime в нашем файловом архиве и обойти место вылета.
Kingpin: Life of Crime зависает. Картинка застывает. Решение
Ситуация примерно такая же, как и с вылетами: многие зависания напрямую связаны с самой игрой, а вернее с ошибкой разработчика при ее создании. Впрочем, нередко застывшая картинка может стать отправной точкой для расследования плачевного состояния видеокарты или процессора.
Так что если картинка в Kingpin: Life of Crime застывает, то воспользуйтесь программами для вывода статистики по загрузке комплектующих. Быть может, ваша видеокарта уже давно исчерпала свой рабочий ресурс или процессор греется до опасных температур?
Проверить загрузку и температуры для видеокарты и процессоров проще всего в программе MSI Afterburner. При желании можно даже выводить эти и многие другие параметры поверх картинки Kingpin: Life of Crime.
Какие температуры опасны? Процессоры и видеокарты имеют разные рабочие температуры. У видеокарт они обычно составляют 60-80 градусов по Цельсию. У процессоров немного ниже — 40-70 градусов. Если температура процессора выше, то следует проверить состояние термопасты. Возможно, она уже высохла и требует замены.
Если греется видеокарта, то стоит воспользоваться драйвером или официальной утилитой от производителя. Нужно увеличить количество оборотов кулеров и проверить, снизится ли рабочая температура.
Kingpin: Life of Crime тормозит. Низкий FPS. Просадки частоты кадров. Решение
Kingpin: Life of Crime лагает. Большая задержка при игре. Решение
Многие путают «тормоза» с «лагами», но эти проблемы имеют совершенно разные причины. Kingpin: Life of Crime тормозит, когда снижается частота кадров, с которой картинка выводится на монитор, и лагает, когда задержка при обращении к серверу или любому другому хосту слишком высокая.
Именно поэтому «лаги» могут быть только в сетевых играх. Причины разные: плохой сетевой код, физическая удаленность от серверов, загруженность сети, неправильно настроенный роутер, низкая скорость интернет-соединения.
Впрочем, последнее бывает реже всего. В онлайн-играх общение клиента и сервера происходит путем обмена относительно короткими сообщениями, поэтому даже 10 Мб в секунду должно хватить за глаза.
В Kingpin: Life of Crime нет звука. Ничего не слышно. Решение
Kingpin: Life of Crime работает, но почему-то не звучит — это еще одна проблема, с которой сталкиваются геймеры. Конечно, можно играть и так, но все-таки лучше разобраться, в чем дело.
Сначала нужно определить масштаб проблемы. Где именно нет звука — только в игре или вообще на компьютере? Если только в игре, то, возможно, это обусловлено тем, что звуковая карта очень старая и не поддерживает DirectX.
Если же звука нет вообще, то дело однозначно в настройке компьютера. Возможно, неправильно установлены драйвера звуковой карты, а может быть звука нет из-за какой-то специфической ошибки нашей любимой ОС Windows.
В Kingpin: Life of Crime не работает управление. Kingpin: Life of Crime не видит мышь, клавиатуру или геймпад. Решение
Как играть, если невозможно управлять процессом? Проблемы поддержки специфических устройств тут неуместны, ведь речь идет о привычных девайсах — клавиатуре, мыши и контроллере.
Таким образом, ошибки в самой игре практически исключены, почти всегда проблема на стороне пользователя. Решить ее можно по-разному, но, так или иначе, придется обращаться к драйверу. Обычно при подключении нового устройства операционная система сразу же пытается задействовать один из стандартных драйверов, но некоторые модели клавиатур, мышей и геймпадов несовместимы с ними.
Таким образом, нужно узнать точную модель устройства и постараться найти именно ее драйвер. Часто с устройствами от известных геймерских брендов идут собственные комплекты ПО, так как стандартный драйвер Windows банально не может обеспечить правильную работу всех функций того или иного устройства.
Если искать драйверы для всех устройств по отдельности не хочется, то можно воспользоваться программой Driver Updater. Она предназначена для автоматического поиска драйверов, так что нужно будет только дождаться результатов сканирования и загрузить нужные драйвера в интерфейсе программы.
Нередко тормоза в Kingpin: Life of Crime могут быть вызваны вирусами. В таком случае нет разницы, насколько мощная видеокарта стоит в системном блоке. Проверить компьютер и отчистить его от вирусов и другого нежелательного ПО можно с помощью специальных программ. Например NOD32. Антивирус зарекомендовал себя с наилучшей стороны и получили одобрение миллионов пользователей по всему миру.
ZoneAlarm подходит как для личного использования, так и для малого бизнеса, способен защитить компьютер с операционной системой Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista и Windows XP от любых атак: фишинговых, вирусов, вредоносных программ, шпионских программ и других кибер угроз. Новым пользователям предоставляется 30-дневный бесплатный период.
Nod32 — анитивирус от компании ESET, которая была удостоена многих наград за вклад в развитие безопасности. На сайте разработчика доступны версии анивирусных программ как для ПК, так и для мобильных устройств, предоставляется 30-дневная пробная версия. Есть специальные условия для бизнеса.
Kingpin: Life of Crime, скачанная с торрента не работает. Решение
Такие версии игр использовать не просто неудобно, а даже опасно, ведь очень часто в них изменены многие файлы. Например, для обхода защиты пираты модифицируют EXE-файл. При этом никто не знает, что они еще с ним делают. Быть может, они встраивают само-исполняющееся программное обеспечение. Например, майнер, который при первом запуске игры встроится в систему и будет использовать ее ресурсы для обеспечения благосостояния хакеров. Или вирус, дающий доступ к компьютеру третьим лицам. Тут никаких гарантий нет и быть не может.
К тому же использование пиратских версий — это, по мнению нашего издания, воровство. Разработчики потратили много времени на создание игры, вкладывали свои собственные средства в надежде на то, что их детище окупится. А каждый труд должен быть оплачен.
Поэтому при возникновении каких-либо проблем с играми, скачанными с торрентов или же взломанных с помощью тех или иных средств, следует сразу же удалить «пиратку», почистить компьютер при помощи антивируса и приобрести лицензионную копию игры. Это не только убережет от сомнительного ПО, но и позволит скачивать обновления для игры и получать официальную поддержку от ее создателей.
Kingpin: Life of Crime выдает ошибку об отсутствии DLL-файла. Решение
Как правило, проблемы, связанные с отсутствием DLL-библиотек, возникают при запуске Kingpin: Life of Crime, однако иногда игра может обращаться к определенным DLL в процессе и, не найдя их, вылетать самым наглым образом.
Чтобы исправить эту ошибку, нужно найти необходимую библиотеку DLL и установить ее в систему. Проще всего сделать это с помощью программы DLL-fixer, которая сканирует систему и помогает быстро найти недостающие библиотеки.
Если ваша проблема оказалась более специфической или же способ, изложенный в данной статье, не помог, то вы можете спросить у других пользователей в нашей рубрике «Вопросы и ответы». Они оперативно помогут вам!
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Kingpin: Life of Crime → Оптимизация для слабых ПК
Kingpin: Life of Crime — это экшен с видом от первого лица с элементами шутера от мастеров из студии Xatrix Entertainment, Inc.. Издателем игры выступает. Подробнее
Оптимизация для слабых ПК Kingpin: Life of Crime
Существует много способов улучшить работу игр на не самом слабом компьютере. Далее мы рассмотрим их в порядке от простых к сложным и расскажем, что делать, если Kingpin: Life of Crime тормозит.
Простое решение тормозов в Kingpin: Life of Crime
Освободить место на диске
Прежде чем переходить к активным действиям нужно убедиться, что на компьютере есть хотя бы 10-15 Гб свободного места на жестком диске, на который установлена операционная система.
Обычно это диск «C». Этот минимальный запас необходим для того, чтобы система могла без каких-либо проблем создавать временные хранилища файлов Kingpin: Life of Crime, кэши и так далее.
Посмотрите системные требования Kingpin: Life of Crime и убедитесь, что на вашем жестком диске достаточно места для нормальной работы игры.
Отключить ненужные программы
Каждая программа, которая запущена в ОС, занимает определенный процент оперативной памяти и загружает процессор. Убедиться в этом легко, достаточно просто открыть диспетчер задач с помощью сочетания клавиш Ctrl+Alt+Del:
Если в компьютере установлен не самый мощный процессор, а оперативной памяти меньше 8-16 Гб, то перед запуском Kingpin: Life of Crime нужно отключить ненужные программы. Например, Skype, Discord, Telegram, Google Chrome и так далее.
Отключить оверлеи
Речь идет о тех программах, которые способны отображать свой интерфейс поверх игры. Часто на компьютере есть такие — Fraps, Steam, Origin и так далее. Даже когда оверлей скрыт, он обрабатывается компьютером, снижая FPS в Kingpin: Life of Crime.
Поэтому все оверлеи нужно отключить. Почти всегда это можно сделать в настройках программы без необходимости ее удаления. Например, оверлей Steam, легко отключается через меню:
Обновить драйвера видеокарты, скачать драйвера для Kingpin: Life of Crime
Вне зависимости от того, какая видеокарта стоит в системном блоке, ее драйвера нужно поддерживать в актуальном состоянии. Поэтому перед запуском Kingpin: Life of Crime следует зайти на сайт производителя и проверить, не вышли ли новые драйвера:
После установки драйвера следует перезагрузить компьютер, чтобы исключить возможность сбоев. Также стоит учитывать, что для многих старых видеокарт новые драйверы уже не выходят.
Изменить параметры электропитания
По умолчанию в компьютере установлен сбалансированный режим электропитания, который, а в некоторых ноутбуках, в целях увеличения времени работы, и вовсе установлена экономия энергии.
Это не дает компьютеру раскрыть свой потенциал в Kingpin: Life of Crime полностью, поэтому первым делом нужно открыть панель управления, которую можно найти с помощью поиска. После нужно сделать следующее:
Включить режим производительности Nvidia
После установки драйвера для видеокарты от компании Nvidia можно ускорить работу Kingpin: Life of Crime с помощью режима производительности. Это немного упростит графику в игре, но повысит FPS. Обратите внимание, что этот метод доступен только в случае, если у вас видеокарта с чипом от Nvidia. Вот как это сделать:
Далее необходимо запустить Kingpin: Life of Crime и убедиться, что все отображается корректно. Если возникают проблемы, то нужно вместо «Пользовательские настройки с упором на:» выбрать «Настройки согласно 3D-приложению».
Отключить эффекты Windows
Если Kingpin: Life of Crime работает не в полноэкранном режиме, а в окне, в том числе и без рамки, то повысить FPS можно, если отключить эффекты Windows. Для этого нужно проделать следующие действия:
При необходимости на последнем шаге можно выбрать опцию «Особые эффекты». В таком случае можно самостоятельно выбрать, какие эффекты оставить, а какие — отключить.
Увеличить файл подкачки, если не хватает оперативной памяти для Kingpin: Life of Crime
Чтобы компенсировать недостаток оперативной памяти, можно увеличить файл подкачки. Это позволит системе хранить часть необходимых Kingpin: Life of Crime данных прямо на жестком диске. Вот что нужно сделать:
Например, если в системном блоке установлена «плашка» на 4 Гб, то есть 4192 Мб, в поля выше нужно вписать число 2048. Можно сделать файл подкачки больше, но никакого прироста это не даст.
Следует понимать, что файл подкачки эффективен только тогда, когда системе не хватает оперативной памяти. Если компьютер имеет 8-16 Гб, то файл подкачки практически не используется. А при использовании SSD-диска в качестве системного наличие файла подкачки и вовсе может замедлить производительность Kingpin: Life of Crime, поэтому не следует бездумно задавать большое значение файла подкачки.
Если Kingpin: Life of Crime запускается, но сильно тормозит, то перед началом всех процедур следует снизить графику до минимума через настройки игры. Если это не помогло, то придется прибегнуть к помощи сторонних программ для настройки видеокарты:
Загрузив программу, запускаем ее. В случае с NVIDIA Inspector нужно запускать файл nvidiaProfileInspector.exe, а не nvidiaInspector.exe. Сверху, в строке «Profiles:» можно выбрать любую игру, которая поддерживается драйверами Nvidia.
Ниже представлены все доступные настройки. Их много, но для того, чтобы ухудшить графику в игре до «картофельной», вполне достаточно всего нескольких, которые находятся в разделе «Antialiasing».
Наибольший прирост производительности дает изменение этих двух параметров:
Каждая из этих настроек имеет разные значения. Некоторые из них могут делать картинку в Kingpin: Life of Crime неудобоваримой, поэтому следует попробовать разные комбинации значений, которые дают более-менее сносное играбельную картинку.
В случае с RadeonMod все аналогично: нужно найти настройки, отвечающие за отображение текстур и снижать их до тех пор, пока FPS в игре не станет достаточно высоким.
Как разогнать видеокарту для Kingpin: Life of Crime
Все, что связано с «разгоном», направлено на увеличение производительности, но это довольно обширные темы, о которых в двух словах рассказать сложно. К тому же это всегда довольно рисковое дело. Если что, мы вас предупредили.
Чтобы добиться большего значения FPS в Kingpin: Life of Crime, сначала можно попробовать разогнать видеокарту. Самый простой способ сделать это — воспользоваться встроенными функциями ПО от производителя видеокарты.
Например, в комплекте с некоторыми видеокартами от GIGABYTE поставляется программа Graphics Engine, в которой есть несколько уже готовых профилей разгона. Это позволяет выжать из видеокарты 5-10 дополнительных кадров в секунду.
Если программы от производителя нет, то всегда можно воспользоваться универсальным решением — MSI Afterburner. Это одна из лучших программ для разгона, в ней множество разных настроек.
Но тут придется все настраивать вручную. Повышать следует в первую очередь частоту самого видеочипа («Core Clock») и частоту памяти видеокарты («Memory Clock»). Слева находятся базовые значения этих параметров. Справа отображаются температура и увеличение вольтажа — эти характеристики позволяют следить за «здоровьем» видеокарты.
При повышении частоты возрастает нагрев видеокарты. Если температура переходит отметку в 85 градусов, то следует увеличить скорость оборотов вентиляторов («Fan Speed»). Если температура повысилась до 100 градусов, то следует немедленно прекратить разгон, иначе чип может расплавиться. Мощный «разгон» требует водяного охлаждения, поэтому не следует повышать частоты более чем на 10%.
Разогнать процессор
В то время как «разгон» видеокарты вполне осуществим прямо в Windows, для того, чтобы улучшить работу процессора и тем самым увеличить быстродействие Kingpin: Life of Crime, придется лезть в «Биос».
Геймерский «разгон» процессора обычно предполагает увеличение процессорного множителя (Core Ratio). Сделать это можно далеко не на каждом процессоре, а только на том, где этот множитель разблокирован. Обычно такие процессоры помечаются особым образом. Например, компания Intel использует маркировки «K» и «X‘. То есть, например, i7-4790 нельзя разогнать с помощью множителя, а вот i7-4790K — вполне.
Но как узнать точное название модели процессора? Проще всего воспользоваться программой CPU-Z. Запустив ее, нужно открыть вкладку «CPU» и посмотреть на самую первую строчку — «Name». Это и есть название процессора. Кстати, там же можно увидеть из сам множитель. Он в разделе «Clocks», в строке «Multiplier». Если процессор поддерживает «разгон», то этот множитель можно изменить.
Чтобы изменить коэффициент Core Ratio, нужно сначала попасть в оболочку BIOS. Для этого нужно нажать особое сочетание клавиш во время загрузки компьютера (до того, как появится экран Windows).
Сочетание может различаться в зависимости от материнской платы. Часто BIOS можно вызвать с помощью клавиши «F8» или «Del». На экране «Биоса» нужно найти раздел, посвященный процессору. Тут тоже все сложно, так как оболочек у BIOS много. Практически каждый производитель материнский плат использует свою собственную, поэтому без знания английского языка найти нужное место не так-то просто.
Изменять множитель нужно постепенно, повышая его на 2. После каждого изменения следует перезапускать компьютер и тщательно проверять работоспособность и температуру процессора. Если она становится выше 80 градусов во время игры, то нужно немедленно выключить Kingpin: Life of Crime, перезагрузить компьютер, зайти в BIOS и снизить значение Core Ratio. Иначе процессор может сгореть.
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Привет,
Для игры на серверах нужно выполнить несколько несложных шагов. Игра была заброшена разработчиками еще в 2001, поэтому игроки делали карты, ставили интернет-страницы, разрабатывали анти-чит системыи т.д. В итоге игры прожила больше чем сама компания Interplay и команда разботчиков Kingpin: Life of Crime. В августе следующего года искает срок авторских прав Interplay на игру, и те самым, Kingpin становится полностью бесплатной для скачивания игрой и выходит из группы abandonware.
И так, для того чтобы играть на серверах нужно:
1. Скачать Kingpin: Life of Crime:
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Скачать игру можно здесь: http://www.sexythief.net/forum/index.php?automodule=downloads&showfile=7
или
http://www.old-games.ru/game/580.html
После того как скачали игру, качаем русскую озвучку здесь:
http://downloads.kingpinforever.com/Official_Russian_Kingpin_Sounds.zip
После того как все скачано открываем Official_Russian_Kingpin_Sounds.zip и извлекаем его в папку игры, например C:Kingpin
2. Пропатчить игру до версии 1.21:
http://downloads.kingpinforever.com/official/kingpin_v121_patch.exe
Скачайте kingpin_v121_patch.exe. Запустите. В появившемся диалоговом окне введите путь к папке игры, например (D:Games), и нажмите Unzip
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3. Скачать NoCD кряк для версии 1.21:
http://downloads.kingpinforever.com/kp121cr.zip
Извлеките из архива kp121cr.exe в папку Kingpin. Запустите приложение. Кликните Patch.
http://cs1577.vkontakte.ru/u5604706/40825549/x_531bceb9.jpg
Теперь вам доступны одиночный миссии на прохождение без лицензионного диска игры.
4. Использовать Monkey Mod античит клиент:
Почти все сервера требуют этот клиент для игры в интернете. Скачать клиент можно здесь: http://downloads.poisonville.net/mods/Monkey_Mod/Client_Files/monkeymod-client.zip
Извлеките mmclient.exe в папку Kingpin’а (mmclient.exe обязательно должен находится в одной папке с kingpin.exe!)
5. Скачать GameSpy Lite:
http://downloads.kingpinforever.com/misc/Gamespy_Lite_Forever_Update/Kingpingspylite.Kingpin.Forever.Update.Final.zip
Излеките и запустите kingpingspylite.exe. Нажмите Configure.
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В поле Directory укажите путь к mmclient.exe. Нажмите ОК. Кликните Refresh и присоединяйтесь
Глючит или не запускается Kingpin: Life of Crime? Решение есть! Постоянные лаги и зависания — не проблема! После установки мода Kingpin: Life of Crime начала глючить или НПС не реагируют на завершение задания? И на этот вопрос найдется ответ! На этой странице вы сможете найти решение для любых известных проблем с игрой и обсудить их на форуме.
Игра не запускается (2001)
Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается/вылетает.
О: В первую очередь проверьте совместимость игры с вашей версией операционной системы.
Если у вас установлена Windows 7 и ниже, то выставьте параметры запуска на совместимость с Windows XP sp3. Для этого зайдите в свойства ярлыка, вызвав контекстное меню нажатием правой кнопки мыши, перейдите во вкладку “Совместимость” и выберете соответствующий параметр.
Если данный способ не помог, или у вас установлена Windows 8 или 10, то рекомендуем воспользоваться сторонними патчами для запуска игры на современных компьютерах. Скачать их можно или с сайта разработчика, или из нашего раздела.
Я скачал Kingpin: Life of Crime из магазина, но она не работает.
О: Большая часть старых игр представленных в каталогах Steam и GOG полностью оптимизированы для современных систем, но встречаются исключения. Рекомендуем внимательно прочитать описание на странице магазина, где могут быть указаны советы по запуску игры. Также рекомендуем воспользоваться советами изложенными выше.
Kingpin: Life of Crime выдает ошибку “программа не является приложением win32”.
О: В данном случае для запуска программы потребуется установить гостевую операционную систему или определенный эмулятор. Подробнее обсудить вопрос можно на форуме игры.
Kingpin: Life of Crime вылетает во время катсцен/не проигрывает ролики.
О: Установите Bink Player. Скачать его можно с официального сайта или поискать в разделе файлы на нашем сайте.
Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается в оконном/полноэкранном режиме.
О: Проверьте наличие официального патча или сторонних загрузчиков на сайте разработчика или в разделе файлы. Внимание! Для запуска может потребоваться дополнительное ПО, так что внимательнее читайте описание.
Не работает сетевая игры в Kingpin: Life of Crime.
О: Запуск старых игры в режиме сетевой игры, зачастую, возможен только посредством эмуляции локального подключения между компьютерами. Для его создания можно использовать такие программы как Tunngle. Также существуют и готовые варианты вроде Hamachi.
Игра тормозит и лагает
Скорее всего данная проблема носит аппаратный характер. Проверьте системные требования игры и установите корректные настройки качества графики. Подробнее об оптимизации игры можно почитать на форуме. Также загляните в раздел файлов, где найдутся программы для оптимизации Kingpin: Life of Crime для работы на слабых ПК. Ниже рассмотрены исключительные случаи.
Появились тормоза в игре.
О: Проверьте компьютер на вирусы, отключите лишние фоновые процессы и неиспользуемые программы в диспетчере задач. Также стоит проверить состояние жесткого диска с помощью специализированных программ по типу Hard Drive Inspector. Проверьте температуру процессора и видеокарты —возможно пришла пора обслужить ваш компьютер.
Долгие загрузки в игре.
О: Проверьте состояние своего жесткого диска. Рекомендуется удалить лишние моды — они могут сильно влиять на продолжительность загрузок. Проверьте настройки антивируса и обязательно установите в нём “игровой режим” или его аналог.
Kingpin: Life of Crime лагает.
О: Причинами периодических тормозов (фризов или лагов) в Kingpin: Life of Crime могут быть запущенные в фоновом режиме приложения. Особое внимание следует уделить программам вроде Discord и Skype. Если лаги есть и в других играх, то рекомендуем проверить состояние жесткого диска — скорее всего пришла пора заменить его.
Проблемы с модами
Ошибки загрузки/обновления
Проверьте стабильность подключения к интернету, а также скорость загрузки. При слишком высоком пинге или низкой пропускной способности обновление может выдавать ошибки.
Если магазин или лончер Kingpin: Life of Crime не завершает обновления или выдает ошибки, то переустановите саму программу. При этом все скачанные вами игры сохранятся.
Запустите проверку целостности данных игры.
Проверьте наличие свободного места на том диске, на котором установлена игра, а также на диске с операционной системой. И в том и в другом случае должно быть свободно места не меньше, чем занимает игра на текущий момент. В идеале всегда иметь запас около 100Гб.
Проверьте настройки антивируса и “Защитника Windows”, а также разрешения в брандмауэре. Вполне возможно они ограничивают подключение к интернету для ряда приложений. Данную проблему можно решить и полной переустановкой магазина или лончера т.к. большинство из них попросит предоставить доступ к интернету в процессе инсталляции.
О специфических ошибках связанных с последними обновлениями можно узнать на форуме игры.
Вопросы по прохождению
Ответы на все вопросы касающиеся прохождения Kingpin: Life of Crime можно найти в соответствующих разделах Wiki, а также на нашем форуме. Не стесняйтесь задавать вопросы и делиться своими советами и решениями.
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Тип игры : Coop ( Кол-во игроков : 9)
Жанр : Shooter, 1st person
Дата выхода : 30 июня 1999
Подключение по : LAN / Интернет ( Tunngle / Hamachi )
Информация по игре: знаменитая игра своими крылатыми выражениями от «фаргуса», мод на кооператив для 9х человек
[Осторожно, много мата]
Подготовка к запуску:
1. Скачиваем и устанавливаем игру
2. Скачиваем кооперативный мод и распаковываем в папку с игрой:
https://download.kingpin.info/index.php?dir=&search=coop&search_mode=f (скачиваем этот архив Coop_Mod_10_Windows.zip и распаковываем содержимое архива в каталог с игрой (2 файла папку coop и exe файл))
Запуск игры:
1. Для тех кто подключается: переименовываем файл kingpincoop9.exe в kingpin.exe и запускаем через этот exe файл игру.
1.1. Для тех кто создает игру: сначала запускаем coop.bat, а потом игру через kingpin.exe (тут kingpincoop9.exe переименовывать не нужно)
Подключение:
Gang bang —> Join network —> Перед вами появится список серверов, подключаемся к любому.
Создание сервера:
Gang bang —> Join network —> Из списка выбираем свой сервер и подключаемся к нему.
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Kingpin: Life of Crime → Решение проблем
Kingpin: Life of Crime — это экшен с видом от первого лица с примесью шутера от разработчиков из студии Xatrix Entertainment, Inc.. Издает игру компания Interplay. Подробнее
Решение проблем Kingpin: Life of Crime
Решение проблем в Kingpin: Life of Crime — не устанавливается? Не запускается? Тормозит? Вылетает? Лагает? Ошибка? Не загружается?
К сожалению, в играх бывают изъяны: тормоза, низкий FPS, вылеты, зависания, баги и другие мелкие и не очень ошибки. Нередко проблемы начинаются еще до начала игры, когда она не устанавливается, не загружается или даже не скачивается. Да и сам компьютер иногда чудит, и тогда в Kingpin: Life of Crime вместо картинки черный экран, не работает управление, не слышно звук или что-нибудь еще.
Что сделать в первую очередь
Системные требования Kingpin: Life of Crime
Второе, что стоит сделать при возникновении каких-либо проблем с Kingpin: Life of Crime, это свериться с системными требованиями. По-хорошему делать это нужно еще до покупки, чтобы не пожалеть о потраченных деньгах.
Минимальные системные требования Kingpin: Life of Crime:
Win 95, Процессор: Intel Pentium II 233MHz, 32 MB ОЗУ, AMD Rage 128 Ultra 16MB Видеопамять: 4MB
Каждому геймеру следует хотя бы немного разбираться в комплектующих, знать, зачем нужна видеокарта, процессор и другие штуки в системном блоке.
Файлы, драйверы и библиотеки
Практически каждое устройство в компьютере требует набор специального программного обеспечения. Это драйверы, библиотеки и прочие файлы, которые обеспечивают правильную работу компьютера.
Начать стоит с драйверов для видеокарты. Современные графические карты производятся только двумя крупными компаниями — Nvidia и AMD. Выяснив, продукт какой из них крутит кулерами в системном блоке, отправляемся на официальный сайт и загружаем пакет свежих драйверов:
Обязательным условием для успешного функционирования Kingpin: Life of Crime является наличие самых свежих драйверов для всех устройств в системе. Скачайте утилиту Driver Updater, чтобы легко и быстро загрузить последние версии драйверов и установить их одним щелчком мыши:
Фоновые процессы всегда влияют на производительность. Вы можете существенно увеличить FPS, очистив ваш ПК от мусорных файлов и включив специальный игровой режим с помощью программы Advanced System Optimizer
Kingpin: Life of Crime не скачивается. Долгое скачивание. Решение
Скорость лично вашего интернет-канала не является единственно определяющей скорость загрузки. Если раздающий сервер работает на скорости, скажем, 5 Мб в секунду, то ваши 100 Мб делу не помогут.
Если Kingpin: Life of Crime совсем не скачивается, то это может происходить сразу по куче причин: неправильно настроен роутер, проблемы на стороне провайдера, кот погрыз кабель или, в конце-концов, упавший сервер на стороне сервиса, откуда скачивается игра.
Kingpin: Life of Crime не устанавливается. Прекращена установка. Решение
Перед тем, как начать установку Kingpin: Life of Crime, нужно еще раз обязательно проверить, какой объем она занимает на диске. Если же проблема с наличием свободного места на диске исключена, то следует провести диагностику диска. Возможно, в нем уже накопилось много «битых» секторов, и он банально неисправен?
В Windows есть стандартные средства проверки состояния HDD- и SSD-накопителей, но лучше всего воспользоваться специализированными программами.
Но нельзя также исключать и вероятность того, что из-за обрыва соединения загрузка прошла неудачно, такое тоже бывает. А если устанавливаете Kingpin: Life of Crime с диска, то стоит поглядеть, нет ли на носителе царапин и чужеродных веществ!
Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается. Ошибка при запуске. Решение
Kingpin: Life of Crime установилась, но попросту отказывается работать. Как быть?
Выдает ли Kingpin: Life of Crime какую-нибудь ошибку после вылета? Если да, то какой у нее текст? Возможно, она не поддерживает вашу видеокарту или какое-то другое оборудование? Или ей не хватает оперативной памяти?
Помните, что разработчики сами заинтересованы в том, чтобы встроить в игры систему описания ошибки при сбое. Им это нужно, чтобы понять, почему их проект не запускается при тестировании.
Обязательно запишите текст ошибки. Если вы не владеете иностранным языком, то обратитесь на официальный форум разработчиков Kingpin: Life of Crime. Также будет полезно заглянуть в крупные игровые сообщества и, конечно, в наш FAQ.
Если Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается, мы рекомендуем вам попробовать отключить ваш антивирус или поставить игру в исключения антивируса, а также еще раз проверить соответствие системным требованиям и если что-то из вашей сборки не соответствует, то по возможности улучшить свой ПК, докупив более мощные комплектующие.
В Kingpin: Life of Crime черный экран, белый экран, цветной экран. Решение
Проблемы с экранами разных цветов можно условно разделить на 2 категории.
Во-первых, они часто связаны с использованием сразу двух видеокарт. Например, если ваша материнская плата имеет встроенную видеокарту, но играете вы на дискретной, то Kingpin: Life of Crime может в первый раз запускаться на встроенной, при этом самой игры вы не увидите, ведь монитор подключен к дискретной видеокарте.
Во-вторых, цветные экраны бывают при проблемах с выводом изображения на экран. Это может происходить по разным причинам. Например, Kingpin: Life of Crime не может наладить работу через устаревший драйвер или не поддерживает видеокарту. Также черный/белый экран может выводиться при работе на разрешениях, которые не поддерживаются игрой.
Kingpin: Life of Crime вылетает. В определенный или случайный момент. Решение
Играете вы себе, играете и тут — бац! — все гаснет, и вот уже перед вами рабочий стол без какого-либо намека на игру. Почему так происходит? Для решения проблемы стоит попробовать разобраться, какой характер имеет проблема.
Если вылет происходит в случайный момент времени без какой-то закономерности, то с вероятностью в 99% можно сказать, что это ошибка самой игры. В таком случае исправить что-то очень трудно, и лучше всего просто отложить Kingpin: Life of Crime в сторону и дождаться патча.
Однако если вы точно знаете, в какие моменты происходит вылет, то можно и продолжить игру, избегая ситуаций, которые провоцируют сбой.
Однако если вы точно знаете, в какие моменты происходит вылет, то можно и продолжить игру, избегая ситуаций, которые провоцируют сбой. Кроме того, можно скачать сохранение Kingpin: Life of Crime в нашем файловом архиве и обойти место вылета.
Kingpin: Life of Crime зависает. Картинка застывает. Решение
Ситуация примерно такая же, как и с вылетами: многие зависания напрямую связаны с самой игрой, а вернее с ошибкой разработчика при ее создании. Впрочем, нередко застывшая картинка может стать отправной точкой для расследования плачевного состояния видеокарты или процессора.
Так что если картинка в Kingpin: Life of Crime застывает, то воспользуйтесь программами для вывода статистики по загрузке комплектующих. Быть может, ваша видеокарта уже давно исчерпала свой рабочий ресурс или процессор греется до опасных температур?
Проверить загрузку и температуры для видеокарты и процессоров проще всего в программе MSI Afterburner. При желании можно даже выводить эти и многие другие параметры поверх картинки Kingpin: Life of Crime.
Какие температуры опасны? Процессоры и видеокарты имеют разные рабочие температуры. У видеокарт они обычно составляют 60-80 градусов по Цельсию. У процессоров немного ниже — 40-70 градусов. Если температура процессора выше, то следует проверить состояние термопасты. Возможно, она уже высохла и требует замены.
Если греется видеокарта, то стоит воспользоваться драйвером или официальной утилитой от производителя. Нужно увеличить количество оборотов кулеров и проверить, снизится ли рабочая температура.
Kingpin: Life of Crime тормозит. Низкий FPS. Просадки частоты кадров. Решение
Kingpin: Life of Crime лагает. Большая задержка при игре. Решение
Многие путают «тормоза» с «лагами», но эти проблемы имеют совершенно разные причины. Kingpin: Life of Crime тормозит, когда снижается частота кадров, с которой картинка выводится на монитор, и лагает, когда задержка при обращении к серверу или любому другому хосту слишком высокая.
Именно поэтому «лаги» могут быть только в сетевых играх. Причины разные: плохой сетевой код, физическая удаленность от серверов, загруженность сети, неправильно настроенный роутер, низкая скорость интернет-соединения.
Впрочем, последнее бывает реже всего. В онлайн-играх общение клиента и сервера происходит путем обмена относительно короткими сообщениями, поэтому даже 10 Мб в секунду должно хватить за глаза.
В Kingpin: Life of Crime нет звука. Ничего не слышно. Решение
Kingpin: Life of Crime работает, но почему-то не звучит — это еще одна проблема, с которой сталкиваются геймеры. Конечно, можно играть и так, но все-таки лучше разобраться, в чем дело.
Сначала нужно определить масштаб проблемы. Где именно нет звука — только в игре или вообще на компьютере? Если только в игре, то, возможно, это обусловлено тем, что звуковая карта очень старая и не поддерживает DirectX.
Если же звука нет вообще, то дело однозначно в настройке компьютера. Возможно, неправильно установлены драйвера звуковой карты, а может быть звука нет из-за какой-то специфической ошибки нашей любимой ОС Windows.
В Kingpin: Life of Crime не работает управление. Kingpin: Life of Crime не видит мышь, клавиатуру или геймпад. Решение
Как играть, если невозможно управлять процессом? Проблемы поддержки специфических устройств тут неуместны, ведь речь идет о привычных девайсах — клавиатуре, мыши и контроллере.
Таким образом, ошибки в самой игре практически исключены, почти всегда проблема на стороне пользователя. Решить ее можно по-разному, но, так или иначе, придется обращаться к драйверу. Обычно при подключении нового устройства операционная система сразу же пытается задействовать один из стандартных драйверов, но некоторые модели клавиатур, мышей и геймпадов несовместимы с ними.
Таким образом, нужно узнать точную модель устройства и постараться найти именно ее драйвер. Часто с устройствами от известных геймерских брендов идут собственные комплекты ПО, так как стандартный драйвер Windows банально не может обеспечить правильную работу всех функций того или иного устройства.
Если искать драйверы для всех устройств по отдельности не хочется, то можно воспользоваться программой Driver Updater. Она предназначена для автоматического поиска драйверов, так что нужно будет только дождаться результатов сканирования и загрузить нужные драйвера в интерфейсе программы.
Нередко тормоза в Kingpin: Life of Crime могут быть вызваны вирусами. В таком случае нет разницы, насколько мощная видеокарта стоит в системном блоке. Проверить компьютер и отчистить его от вирусов и другого нежелательного ПО можно с помощью специальных программ. Например NOD32. Антивирус зарекомендовал себя с наилучшей стороны и получили одобрение миллионов пользователей по всему миру.
ZoneAlarm подходит как для личного использования, так и для малого бизнеса, способен защитить компьютер с операционной системой Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista и Windows XP от любых атак: фишинговых, вирусов, вредоносных программ, шпионских программ и других кибер угроз. Новым пользователям предоставляется 30-дневный бесплатный период.
Nod32 — анитивирус от компании ESET, которая была удостоена многих наград за вклад в развитие безопасности. На сайте разработчика доступны версии анивирусных программ как для ПК, так и для мобильных устройств, предоставляется 30-дневная пробная версия. Есть специальные условия для бизнеса.
Kingpin: Life of Crime, скачанная с торрента не работает. Решение
Такие версии игр использовать не просто неудобно, а даже опасно, ведь очень часто в них изменены многие файлы. Например, для обхода защиты пираты модифицируют EXE-файл. При этом никто не знает, что они еще с ним делают. Быть может, они встраивают само-исполняющееся программное обеспечение. Например, майнер, который при первом запуске игры встроится в систему и будет использовать ее ресурсы для обеспечения благосостояния хакеров. Или вирус, дающий доступ к компьютеру третьим лицам. Тут никаких гарантий нет и быть не может.
К тому же использование пиратских версий — это, по мнению нашего издания, воровство. Разработчики потратили много времени на создание игры, вкладывали свои собственные средства в надежде на то, что их детище окупится. А каждый труд должен быть оплачен.
Поэтому при возникновении каких-либо проблем с играми, скачанными с торрентов или же взломанных с помощью тех или иных средств, следует сразу же удалить «пиратку», почистить компьютер при помощи антивируса и приобрести лицензионную копию игры. Это не только убережет от сомнительного ПО, но и позволит скачивать обновления для игры и получать официальную поддержку от ее создателей.
Kingpin: Life of Crime выдает ошибку об отсутствии DLL-файла. Решение
Как правило, проблемы, связанные с отсутствием DLL-библиотек, возникают при запуске Kingpin: Life of Crime, однако иногда игра может обращаться к определенным DLL в процессе и, не найдя их, вылетать самым наглым образом.
Чтобы исправить эту ошибку, нужно найти необходимую библиотеку DLL и установить ее в систему. Проще всего сделать это с помощью программы DLL-fixer, которая сканирует систему и помогает быстро найти недостающие библиотеки.
Если ваша проблема оказалась более специфической или же способ, изложенный в данной статье, не помог, то вы можете спросить у других пользователей в нашей рубрике «Вопросы и ответы». Они оперативно помогут вам!
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Глючит или не запускается Kingpin: Life of Crime? Решение есть! Постоянные лаги и зависания — не проблема! После установки мода Kingpin: Life of Crime начала глючить или НПС не реагируют на завершение задания? И на этот вопрос найдется ответ! На этой странице вы сможете найти решение для любых известных проблем с игрой и обсудить их на форуме.
Проблемы с модами
Игра тормозит и лагает
Скорее всего данная проблема носит аппаратный характер. Проверьте системные требования игры и установите корректные настройки качества графики. Подробнее об оптимизации игры можно почитать на форуме. Также загляните в раздел файлов, где найдутся программы для оптимизации Kingpin: Life of Crime для работы на слабых ПК. Ниже рассмотрены исключительные случаи.
Игра не запускается (2001)
Я скачал Kingpin: Life of Crime из магазина, но она не работает.
О: Большая часть старых игр представленных в каталогах Steam и GOG полностью оптимизированы для современных систем, но встречаются исключения. Рекомендуем внимательно прочитать описание на странице магазина, где могут быть указаны советы по запуску игры. Также рекомендуем воспользоваться советами изложенными выше.
Kingpin: Life of Crime не запускается в оконном/полноэкранном режиме.
О: Проверьте наличие официального патча или сторонних загрузчиков на сайте разработчика или в разделе файлы. Внимание! Для запуска может потребоваться дополнительное ПО, так что внимательнее читайте описание.
Не работает сетевая игры в Kingpin: Life of Crime.
О: Запуск старых игры в режиме сетевой игры, зачастую, возможен только посредством эмуляции локального подключения между компьютерами. Для его создания можно использовать такие программы как Tunngle. Также существуют и готовые варианты вроде Hamachi.
Вопросы по прохождению
Ответы на все вопросы касающиеся прохождения Kingpin: Life of Crime можно найти в соответствующих разделах Wiki, а также на нашем форуме. Не стесняйтесь задавать вопросы и делиться своими советами и решениями.
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You can also try other compatibility options such as Disable visual themes and Disable desktop composition.
Ошибки загрузки/обновления
Проверьте стабильность подключения к интернету, а также скорость загрузки. При слишком высоком пинге или низкой пропускной способности обновление может выдавать ошибки.
Если магазин или лончер Kingpin: Life of Crime не завершает обновления или выдает ошибки, то переустановите саму программу. При этом все скачанные вами игры сохранятся.
Запустите проверку целостности данных игры.
Проверьте наличие свободного места на том диске, на котором установлена игра, а также на диске с операционной системой. И в том и в другом случае должно быть свободно места не меньше, чем занимает игра на текущий момент. В идеале всегда иметь запас около 100Гб.
О специфических ошибках связанных с последними обновлениями можно узнать на форуме игры.
Источник
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
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Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. This week’s expletive-filled Pixel Boost goes out to former PC Gamer editor Norman Chan, who lived the Life of Crime back in ’99.
In 1999, the year before Soldier of Fortune famously let you shoot off arms, legs, and blow heads into chunks of brain and gore, there was Kingpin: Life of Crime. Kingpin ran on the iD Tech 2 engine, but its characters look like the lumpy meatbags of Unreal Engine 3 transported back in time half a decade. Before Soldier of Fortune stole away the accolade, Kingin’s claim to fame was a lesser, but still impressive, degree of character model dismemberment. Heads blew off into chunks of flesh, and dead bodies pumped blood onto the dirty concrete. Arms and legs would explode into pieces of meat with enough damage.
And then there was the cursing. The first line of dialogue your thick-necked sack of meat utters is “I’m gonna bury those two motherfuckers,” and that pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the game. It’s relentlessly violent in a way that feels more ugly than fun. You beat a lot of people in the head with a lead pipe in the first level until their faces are matted with blood.
Once you get past the “mature” content of brutal violence and the word “fuck” featuring in every line of dialogue and the drab urban environments, though, there’s something interesting about Kingpin. The AI was smart for its day, the levels were hub-based slices of city instead of linear missions, and it looked pretty amazing compared to the iD Tech 2 games of just a year or two before. It was definitely a step forward for technology—even if the flesh of all the characters pulsates in cutscenes, like worms are writing just under the surface of their skin.
Today, playing Kingpin is like walking across the bridge between Quake II and Soldier of Fortune and saying fuck a lot. On the bright side, it runs on Windows 7 and Windows 8—in 4K, no less—with little effort.
Install it
You can grab Kingpin: Life of Crime on Steam for $10. Which, honestly, seems a bit expensive for a first-person shooter from 1999. Just install the game from Steam and move along to the next step.
Run it in high resolution
Kingpin’s resolution support stops short of 1080p, though it does natively support widescreen resolutions. Thankfully, there’s a handy modder tweak that makes it easy to run the Steam version of the game at 1080p or beyond. This Steam Guide from user helix666 includes just two files, a dll and a .ini, that tell the game to support higher resolutions. Download the zip file, extract it in the Kingpin install directory, and open up the ResolutionSettings.ini. By default, this file tells the game to set all resolution options to 1080p. Put your desired resolution in this file and save it.
Now boot up the game. You can adjust graphics settings from the Visuals menu, but if you replaced all of the resolution options in the .ini file with your desired resolution, you shouldn’t have to change anything—the game’s running at your resolution of choice. And don’t be concerned if the menu looks hideous. It’s low-res 2D; as soon as you jump into the game proper, you’ll be greeted with crisp 3D graphics.
Mod it
There are only a few mods floating around out there for Kingpin: Life of Crime. Check out the Rags 2 Riches mod which gives it a nice little graphical polish.
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Основные причины ошибок исполняемого файла EXE связаны с отсутствием или повреждением файла kingpin.exe или, в некоторых случаях, заражением вредоносным ПО. Как правило, эти ошибки наблюдаются во время запуска Kingpin: Life of Crime. Для устранения неполадок, связанных с файлом EXE, большинство профессионалов ПК заменят файл на соответствующую версию. В некоторых случаях реестр Windows пытается загрузить файл kingpin.exe, который больше не существует; в таких ситуациях рекомендуется запустить сканирование реестра, чтобы исправить любые недопустимые ссылки на пути к файлам.
Формат Windows Executable File с расширением файла EXE классифицируют в качестве Исполнимые файлы. Ниже вы также можете найти последние версии файлов для %%os%% (и для других версий ОС). Если в настоящий момент отсутствует необходимая вам версия kingpin.exe, запросите ей, нажав на кнопку Request (Запрос) рядом с необходимой версией файла. В крайнем случае, если ниже отсутствует необходимый вам файл ниже, для получения необходимой версии вы также можете связаться с Xatrix Entertainment, Inc..
Если вы успешно заменили соответствующий файл в соответствующем месте, у вас больше не должно возникать проблем, связанных с kingpin.exe. Однако мы рекомендуем выполнить быструю проверку, чтобы окончательно в этом убедиться. Чтобы убедиться в том, что удалось решить проблему, попробуйте запустить Kingpin: Life of Crime, и посмотреть выведется ли ошибка.
kingpin.exe Описание файла | |
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Ext: | EXE |
Группа: | Game,Videogame |
Софт: | Kingpin: Life of Crime |
Версия выпуска: | 2.5 |
Разработчик: | Xatrix Entertainment, Inc. |
Имя: | kingpin.exe |
KB: | 417792 |
SHA-1: | b7812788339f866132d12404cba295383b2c00ea |
MD5: | 9e7e8c1037a25f58e30d2b57ef86e89d |
CRC32: | 2f003a36 |
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Распространенные проблемы Kingpin.exe
kingpin.exe Проблемы, связанные с Kingpin: Life of Crime:
- «Ошибка Kingpin.exe. «
- «Kingpin.exe не является приложением Win32.»
- «Возникла ошибка в приложении Kingpin.exe. Приложение будет закрыто. Приносим извинения за неудобства.»
- «Kingpin.exe не может быть найден. «
- «Kingpin.exe не может быть найден. «
- «Ошибка запуска программы: kingpin.exe.»
- «Kingpin.exe не работает. «
- «Ошибка Kingpin.exe. «
- «Неверный путь к приложению: kingpin.exe.»
Проблемы kingpin.exe с участием Kingpin: Life of Crimes возникают во время установки, при запуске или завершении работы программного обеспечения, связанного с kingpin.exe, или во время процесса установки Windows. При появлении ошибки kingpin.exe запишите вхождения для устранения неполадок Kingpin: Life of Crime и чтобы HelpXatrix Entertainment, Inc. найти причину.
Создатели Kingpin.exe Трудности
Проблемы Kingpin.exe могут быть отнесены к поврежденным или отсутствующим файлам, содержащим ошибки записям реестра, связанным с Kingpin.exe, или к вирусам / вредоносному ПО.
В первую очередь, проблемы kingpin.exe создаются:
- Недопустимый kingpin.exe или поврежденный раздел реестра.
- Зазаражение вредоносными программами повредил файл kingpin.exe.
- Kingpin.exe злонамеренно удален (или ошибочно) другим изгоем или действительной программой.
- Kingpin.exe конфликтует с другой программой (общим файлом).
- Kingpin: Life of Crime (kingpin.exe) поврежден во время загрузки или установки.