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- Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure is a game that explores the world of a graffiti artist. In a city where freedom of expression is being choked by a tyrannical mayor, you play as Trane, a youth trying to build his reputation from a rookie to the most reputable graffiti artist of all.
- The problem you could have, you can solve it changing the properties of the executable of the game. You can find it in the next folder: Program Files (x86) Steam SteamApps common Marc Ecko's Getting Up 2 Bin GettingUp.exe. You only have to change the compatibility mode to Windows Vista (this worked in my experience).
Introduction
This is a guide on how to set the game in order to have the most pleasant experience when speedrunning it.
According to http://www.generalarcade.com/ MEGU was ported to Steam without any access to the source code.
For what it is it the port is not bad and has different resolution options, but in general there are a lot of things wrong with the
game – crashes happen often, camera control is extremely wonky, and mouse sensitivity is abysmal to name a few.
After the changes in this guide your game will be a lot more stable and enjoyable to play, so let's begin!
Video Settings
General
You want to run the game in windowed mode, with 4:3 aspect ratio (1024x768 resolution).
1. Windowed mode makes alt-tabbing and managing windows easier.
2. The 4:3 aspect ratio is just an OBS tip for recording your runs with these measurements: 480x1080px for the splits, and 1440x1080px for the game.
3. Resolution should be 1024x768, because in bigger resolutions you lose the spray can level and weapon durability HUD element.
DxWnd
1. Download DxWnd from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/
2. Unzip DxWnd and start it
3. Right click on the white canvas and select 'Add'
4. Select your game directory (it should be the same for 'Path' and 'Launch')
5. Select these settings:
6. Click OK and go to File -> Save
7. Go to your game directory and in the 'engine' folder open up 'default_pc'
8. Change the settings to these:
9. Save it and go back to DxWnd
10. Open your game and it should look like this:
Gameplay Settings
General
Most of the older games tend to behave differently according to their fps. For example if you play GTA: SA without the frame limiter (which caps the game at 25fps) you get very clunky physics. The same applies to MEGU if you play the game with a 30fps limit.
In 30fps the game is generally faster and you can get boosts from jumps if you hit the jump button again on the last few frames of Trane's animation before he lands from his previous jump. Trane keeps getting momentum and every other jump has an increased chance to give you the same boost. Here's an example.
As of November 2017 we have found ways to skip large parts of the game with a glitch that requires you to run the game in 30fps, so if you want to have competitive times you should limit your fps to 30.
Configuration
There are a lot of settings that you can change/tweak in the file named 'vars_pc' which is also in the 'engine' folder.
I will only list my configuration and the settings I've changed, but you can play around with all the other settings as well.
fpsLimit=30
This value is for setting your fps limit.
mousespeed=0.300000
If you play in 60fps the value should be around 0.15 to 0.20 for easier camera control (this depends on your mouse of course, but the default 0.5 mouse sensitivity is really hard to control). If you play in 30fps the value should be x2 (0.15 -> 0.30).
THINGS YOU CAN'T CHANGE
deathtime=4.000000
This affects your death time so you can't make it 1 second and save 3 seconds each time you die.
difficultyLevel=2
This affects enemy difficulty so you can't make it 0 and complete the game without fighting anyone.
Unresolved Issues
Crashing
The game tends to crash due to bad memory handling so don't get discouraged if you lose a good run. For me crashes happen after Light's Out Cinematic (Level 4 Chapter 3) and after Subway Platform Cinematic (Level 9 Chapter 3), so I just restart the game before those missions to clear the memory. DxWnd helps bring random crashes to a minimum so you should only get a crash at the levels mentioned above.
On that note if you're a beginner I advise you to play with autosave on from the beginning until you're good enough to only turn it on when needed. It's worth playing through the game a few times to figure out if you have different crashing patterns than mine, so you know when you should turn autosave on and in turn restart your game.
Conclusion
Marc Ecko's Getting Up Pcsx2
If you want to speedrun MEGU I highly recommend using this guide, because playing the game this way makes it the most stable it could be. If I find anything new I will be sure to update this guide.
And remember, grey hair is God's graffiti. Whatever that means...
Last updated: December 2017
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Windows | February 14, 2006 |
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Key points
- Can't change keybindings, nor controller bindings in-game.
- Some menu options can't be applied such as changing the language of the game.
General information
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability[edit]
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDiscDRM[Note 1]. | |||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Steam |
- SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Version differences[edit]
- Steam release is an updated version featuring widescreen resolutions, XInput controller support and compatibility fixes for modern machines.
Essential improvements[edit]
Skip intro videos[edit]
Skip intro videos[3] |
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Game data[edit]
Configuration file(s) location[edit]
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>engine[Note 2] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260190/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game data location[edit]
System | Location |
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Windows | %PUBLIC%Documentsgetting up - contents under pressure |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260190/pfx/[Note 3] |
Save game cloud syncing[edit]
Video settings[edit]
Graphics feature | State | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Steam version only. Use Unknownproject's patch for retail. | |
Multi-monitor | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Use Unknownproject's patch. | |
4K Ultra HD | Use Unknownproject's patch. | |
Field of view (FOV) | See Field of view (FOV). | |
Windowed | Borderless only. See Windowed. | |
Borderless fullscreen windowed | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Vertical sync (Vsync) | On by default. Can be forced off through the graphics card control panel. | |
60 FPS | ||
120+ FPS | See High frame rate. |
Field of view (FOV)[edit]
Change FOV[citation needed] |
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Windowed[edit]
Enable windowed[citation needed] |
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High frame rate[edit]
Remove FPS cap[citation needed] |
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Input settings[edit]
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See Remapping. | |
Mouse acceleration | Mouse acceleration is present. Can't be disabled. | |
Mouse sensitivity | See Mouse sensitivity. | |
Mouse input in menus | Launcher only. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | X-axis can also be inverted. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | Steam version launcher requires requires mouse input. Lacks Button promps. | |
Controller remapping | See Remapping. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion | X-axis can also be inverted. |
Additional information | |
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Button prompts | Keyboard button prompts only. |
Controller hotplugging | |
Haptic feedback | |
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Remapping[edit]
Change keybinds[citation needed] |
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Mouse sensitivity[edit]
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- This is to fix the insane mouse sensitivity to which there is no menu option to change it.
Mouse sensitivity[citation needed] |
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Audio settings[edit]
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
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Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | The Steam version is available in German even though the store page says otherwise. | |||
Italian | The Steam version is available in Italian even though the store page says otherwise. | |||
Spanish | The Steam version is available in Spanish even though the store page says otherwise. |
Changing the game's language[edit]
Edit default_pc.cfg[citation needed] |
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Change the OS language[citation needed] |
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Issues fixed[edit]
Access Violation Exception errors[edit]
Change Windows Compatibility Mode to Windows XP Service Pack 3[citation needed] |
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Jumpy camera during train car riding missions[edit]
Cap the framerate to 30 for the duration of the levels |
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Other information[edit]
API[edit]
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 8 |
Middleware[edit]
Middleware | Notes |
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Cutscenes | Bink Video |
Various engine options[edit]
Instructions[4][5][6] |
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System requirements[edit]
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP | Vista, 7 |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | 2.2 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible | 256 MB of VRAM |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX Compatible |
Notes
- ↑SafeDisc retail DRMdoes not work on Windows 10[1] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑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). - ↑ 3.03.1File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/260190/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (260190) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑Steam Community :: Guide :: Skip logo/branding intros - last accessed on 2016-8-9
- ↑Marc Ecko’s Getting Up - Player option
- ↑Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure - Debug Console Enabler
- ↑Various engine options.
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