Going to play this old game soon. Are there any patches I need to download?

When wondering if a game has problems and solutions to them, a good place to check is pcgamingwiki.com

[url=https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick:_Assault_on_Dark_Athena]https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick:_Assault_on_Dark_Athena[/url]

(even posting a URL these days seems to be a mission, who the hell is making sites these days, I give up, screw it)

Though in this case it isn't as useful as it usually is.

I played it a while ago and made a readme for myself incase I want to play it in future and don't want to try find solutions all over again.

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== Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena ==
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-- 5.1 Surround Sound.
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There seems to be two solutions for this.

This seems to be related to using 5.1 settings with Side Speakers,
changing the speaker setup to 5.1 with Rear Speaks seems to fix it,
changing the speaker setup to 7.1 also seems to fix it.

Using IndirectSound and setting "milesCompatibility = true" in "dsound.ini"
also seems to restore surround sound for 5.1 with Side Speakers because it
reports to the game as 5.1 with Rear Speakers.

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-- Severe Stutter and Lag
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Turn off ingame Multithreading option.

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-- Micro Stutter and Lag
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Turn off ingame/driver AA.
Turn off ingame/driver SSAO.
Turn off ingame Multithreading option.

In the Nvidia Control Panel try the following settings for the game (DarkAthena.exe).
Power Management = Adaptive or Max (not Optimal)
Threaded Optimisation = Off
Max pre-render frames = 1

(Note: If using Profile Inspector to do this and it doesn't work try in actual Nvidia CP.)

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-- Skipping Intro Videos / Logos
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-Skip all intros (logos and videos).

Edit "\Content\GUI\CubeWnd.xrg" search for
*DEFAULT "deferredscript(\"cg_rootmenu('legal')\")"

Edit too
*DEFAULT "deferredscript(\"cg_rootmenu('main')\")"

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-Intro videos, can be individually prevented by editing CubeWnd.xrg
or by simply renaming/removing their files..

\Content\Videos\atari.ogg
\Content\Videos\logo_mixed.ogg
\Content\Videos\logo_Sierra.ogg
\Content\Videos\Tigon.ogg
\Content\Videos\universal_ntsc.ogg

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-Intro Logos, can be individually prevented by editing CubeWnd.xrg
but it's simpler to make their duration very short.

ESRB Logo: Search "\Content\GUI\CubeWnd.xrg" for (*WINDOW "esrb"),
just below that in its section edit (*TIME 5) to (*TIME 0).

Legal Logo: Search "\Content\GUI\CubeWnd.xrg" for (*WINDOW "legal"),
just below that in its section edit (*TIME 5) to (*TIME 0).

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-- Console Commands
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There doesn't seem to be a way to run console commands at launch (such as idTech autoexec)

Though the game does store a number of the most recently entered console commands,
(C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Atari\The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena\Environment.cfg)

So you could use the console to bind a quicksave button by entering "bind f9 savegame('quick')"
though it would have to be reapplied each time the game is launched and sometimes after
loading into a new area.

Some other console commands used..
bind f5 r_antialias(0)
bind f6 r_antialias(32)
bind f7 xr_ssao(0)
bind f8 xr_ssao(1)

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