Heavy Gear

Heavy Gear is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person vehicle combat game in the Heavy Gear series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Simple disc check.

A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Available here and here

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\CURRENT.CCT^{[Note 1]}^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\CHARINFO.HG1^{[Note 2]}

All saves regardless of their names and count will be stored in a single CHARINFO.HG1.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Use dgVoodoo 2.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Use dgVoodoo 2 and hex-edit a library^{[citation needed]}
Use a wrapper such as dgVoodoo 2 to force the resolution. Open the file `hgsim.dll` with a hex editor. Search for the hex-string `AB AA AA 3F`. Replace it with `39 8E E3 3F` for 16:9, `26 B4 17 40` for 21:9 (2560x1080), `8E E3 18 40` for 21:9 (3440x1440), or `9A 99 19 40` for 21:9 (3840x1600). Alternate aspect ratio values can be found on WSGF.

Additional information
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support		A3D 1.0^[1] (requires 1.1 patch)
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio		On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

The game fails to detect the CD when it is inserted on drives other than D: and E:

Insert the CD only to D: or E: drives

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play		Co-op, Versus
Online play		Co-op, Versus The official MPlayer.com service has been shut down.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	5

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Multiplayer	MPlayer.com

↑ CURRENT.CCT is the default name for the file that is created after customizing the controls, so if you named the file in the in-game controls options for example to "Player" the game will create Player.CCT in <path-to-game>
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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).