Cold Zero: No Mercy

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Cold Zero: No Mercy

Developers
	Drago Entertainment
Publishers
Europe	JoWood Productions
Europe	Deep Silver
Russia	Russobit-M
North America	Encore Software
Release dates
Windows	August 22, 2003
Reception
Metacritic	62
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Direct control, Point and select
Genres	Action, ARPG, Shooter, Stealth
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary

Cold Zero: No Mercy is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view action, ARPG, shooter and stealth game. It is also known as Cold Zero: The Last Stand.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM DRM
GamersGate

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	None

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files
Go to <path-to-game>\MOVIES. Rename, move or delete these files: Intro.avi and Title.avi.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\save

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
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)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		Characters have speech bubbles.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
German
Polish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Graphics settings revert to lowest values

This happens because the game assumes detecting more than 1024 MB of VRAM is due to an error, and therefore falls back to lowest possible graphics settings as a safety measure.

Use dgVoodoo 2 to run a virtual graphics card with limited VRAM

Download dgVoodoo 2 and extract its archive. Open the extracted directory for dgVoodoo 2. Copy all .dll files from the MS\x86 directory and paste them in the root directory of your Cold Zero installation, for example: C:\Program Files\JoWooD\ColdZero. Run the dgVoodooCpl.exe program. Click the Add button near the Config folders list and select your Cold Zero installation folder. Select the DirectX tab and verify that in the Videocard list, dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card is selected. In the VRAM list, select 1024 MB. Click Apply and try to launch the game from the ColdZero.exe file.

Stretched 4:3 aspect ratio on other aspect ratios

Use dgVoodoo 2 to use centered scaling for full screen
Assuming you already have dgVoodoo 2, open it and select Cold Zero's config folder. In the General tab, in the Appearance menu, select the "Centered" option from the scaling mode list.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	1.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	512 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM