Cabela's Dangerous Hunts

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts is a singleplayer first-person and third-person FPS, hunting, shooter, simulation and TPS game in the Cabela's Dangerous Hunts series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Simple disc check.

Delete or rename video folder^[1]
Delete or rename `Movies` inside `<path-to-game>\Dngh_pc\`.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Dngh_pc\Cfg\console.cfg^{[Note 1]}

System	Location
Windows

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Vert- gameplay and stretched menus and HUD. Increase the FOV to compensate, see Field of view (FOV).
Multi-monitor		Vert- gameplay and stretched menus and HUD, unplayable by default due to the very low FOV. Increase the FOV to compensate, see Field of view (FOV).
Ultra-widescreen		Vert- gameplay and stretched menus and HUD, unplayable by default due to the very low FOV. Increase the FOV to compensate, see Field of view (FOV).
4K Ultra HD		Vert- gameplay and stretched menus and HUD. Increase the FOV to compensate, see Field of view (FOV).
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Up to 4x MSAA through the in-game options. For higher, use the `r_antialias X` console command to enable higher MSAA values (X can be up to 8), and use the `r_apply` console command to apply new settings.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Capped at 100 FPS by default. Use `cl_fps X` to raise the cap (where X is the desired maximum FPS).
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Use the FOV fix^[1]

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

This game comes with a 16-bit InstallShield installer, which doesn't work on 64-bit versions of Windows.

Use 32-bit installer^[1]
Download `Is5Engine.zip` from here. Copy the CD contents to a folder in any location. Extract `Setup.exe` from the downloaded `Is5Engine.zip` to the newly created folder, replacing the original file. Run the new `Setup.exe` to install the game.

Use dgVoodoo 2^[1]

Use crosire's d3d8to9 wrapper^[1]
Download `d3d8.dll` from here. Place it in `<path-to-game>`.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

↑ 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).

Developers

	Fun Labs
Publishers
	Activision Value
Release dates
Windows	January 13, 2004
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	FPS, Hunting, Shooter, Simulation, TPS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary, North America
Series	Cabela's Dangerous Hunts