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Cold Fear

Pick any resolution your display offers in Screen Configuration, see more at the sides on wide screens with the HUD at the edges, and give the retail version the crash, shadow and Alt+Tab fixes of the GOG release.

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Features

Display

  • Every resolution of your display in Screen Configuration
  • Wider view on wide screens, with a field of view setting
  • Fullscreen, windowed or borderless
  • Movies shown whole, or enlarged past their black bars

Interface

  • Health bars and weapon display at the screen edges, or in a centred box
  • Cutscenes keep their bars, or their 4:3 picture on wide screens
  • Brightness and contrast bars show their values

Fixes

  • Alt+Tab no longer pauses and resets the game
  • Two crashes and a blend state today's drivers reject fixed
  • Shadows of objects just outside the view no longer vanish
  • Follows high refresh rate displays instead of holding at 120 FPS
  • Title music and window keep responding while videos play

Extras

  • Frame rate limit and pause when the window is inactive
  • Skip the publisher, Darkworks and RenderWare logos and the Press Start prompt
  • Controllers through the included Xidi

Supported versions

  • The retail version (ColdFear_retail.exe) and the GOG version, whose own widescreen patch the fix replaces.

Install

  1. Customize the settings below, or keep the recommended ones.
  2. Download the package and unpack it into the game's folder, beside the game executable, keeping its folders. The loader is winmm.dll; do not copy a dinput8.dll into the GOG version.
  3. Start the game. The settings are under Settings, Plugins.

Fusion Fix is funded by its supporters

The fixes, the presets and every update are open to everyone. Supporters fund the work on new fixes and updates, and get:

  • Your own settings in the download
  • Share presets as links
  • Your name in the credits

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The fixes, the presets and shared presets stay open to everyone.