Emergency 3


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Emergency: Fighters for Life	1998
Emergency Police	2001
Emergency 2: The Ultimate Fight for Life	2002
Emergency 3: Mission:Life	2005
Emergency 4: Global Fighters for Life	2006
Emergency 2012	2010
Emergency 2013	2012
Emergency 2014	2013
Emergency 5	2014
Emergency 2016	2015
Emergency 2017	2016
Emergency 20	2017
Emergency	2023

Emergency 3 is a singleplayer bird's-eye view simulation and strategy game in the Emergency series.

General information

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Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Custom DRM in English release. Simple disc check in German release.
Steam

Only the original German version received any patches (with the newest being 1.03). There however exists an unofficial port of 1.03 cumulative patch to an English version, available here. This patch is not meant to be used with digital release of the game.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\em3.cfg^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/757200/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Data\Save\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/757200/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Edit line `<var name="r_fov" value="550" />` in the config file. Use Sui's Calculator to calculate your desired FOV value. May drasticly impact on performance.
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Edit `<var name="r_tex_anisotropic" value="1." />` line in config file, where value is your desired Anistropic filtering value (maximum of 16).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Enable Windowed mode^[1]

Edit <path-to-game>\Em3.exe with a hex editor.
Find a sequence of bytes:
```
7B0084E4780C6A01B9
```
Replace it with:
```
7B0084E4EB0C6A01B9
```
Save the changes.
Edit <path-to-game>\em3.cfg with a text editor.
Find a line <var name="r_fullscreen" value="1" /> and change its value to 0 to disable fullscreen mode.

Notes

This fix requires version 1.3 of the game.

Game settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Steam Input
Steam Input API support
Steam Virtual Gamepad (Legacy mode/Hook input)
Steam Input prompt modes
Steam Deck button prompts
Steam Controller (1st gen) button prompts
Motion sensors support
Official controller preset(s)
Cursor detection		Mouse is always on the screen.

Audio settings.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech				Retail. Fan - 1
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese				Fan translation by GameVicio; download.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	2000, XP, ME
Processor (CPU)	1.2 GHz	2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	1 GB	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	AGP graphics card 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0 compatible	AGP graphics card 64 MB of VRAM

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (757200) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

Developers

	Sixteen Tons Entertainment
Engines
	Vision 7
Release dates
Windows	January 21, 2005
Reception
Metacritic	58
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	Simulation, Strategy
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary
Series	Emergency