Initial D: Mountain Vengeance

Initial D
Initial D: Ryosuke Takahashi's Fastest Typing Theory	2000
Initial D Second Stage: Fastest Typing in Kanto Project	2001
Initial D: Mountain Vengeance	2004

Initial D: Mountain Vengeance is a singleplayer third-person racing game in the Initial D series.

It's based on the TOKYOPOP dub of the anime, and thus uses the dub's names and soundtrack, and was released only in North America.

However, it has limited resolutions, only two (800x600, 1024x768) screen resolutions are supported.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		CD-ROM used only for installation.

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

Editing files doesn't seem to change anything.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Saves\^{[Note 1]}

Save files are encrypted.

Sound and Display options.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Stretches from 4:3 resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Has three separate viewing angles.
Windowed		See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		On/Off.
High-fidelity upscaling		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Forced on.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Play in Borderless Windowed mode^{[citation needed]}
Download and install 3D-Analyze. Launch 3D-Analyze. In 3D-Analyze, click the SELECT button and choose `<path-to-game>\InitialD.exe`. Check "force windowed mode". Click the RUN button.

Control options.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity		Mouse is only used for menus.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Only DirectInput.
Full controller support		Some options can only be toggled by KB/M, intro videos cannot be skipped with controller.
Controller remapping		Some buttons cannot be properly remapped.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers		See Controller support.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger support

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)
Additional button prompts		Game uses generic button names, ie "Button A".

Additional information
Controller hotplugging		When controller is unplugged, the game will input randomly until it's plugged back in.
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Fix button assignment^{[citation needed]}
Download and run XInput Plus. Set the "Target Program" to `InitialD.exe`. Go to "DirectInput" and check "Enable DirectInput Output". Assign LT/RT to Button 11/12. Click Apply, this will install DLL files in `<path-to-game>`.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master volume only, music is toggled on or off.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 500 MHz	Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	375 MB
Video card (GPU)	16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	64 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 8.1 compliant sound card
Other	4X CD-ROM drive	Wheel/Joystick or other game controller

↑ ^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).