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Marc Eckō's Getting Up:
Contents Under Pressure
Developers
Steam
Publishers
Steam
Engines
Release dates
WindowsFebruary 14, 2006
  • 1Availability
  • 2Essential improvements
  • 3Game data
  • 4Video settings
  • 5Input settings
  • 6Audio settings
  • 7Issues fixed
  • 8Other information

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

The characters and storyline of Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure are said to be the culmination of over seven years of planning by title project lead Marc Ecko, whose 'Rhino' brand of urban attire helped propel him to the heights of the fashion world in the early '90s. Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure is a video game released in February 2006 for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Windows. It was developed by The Collective and published by Atari, Inc. Under license by Ecko Unlimited. There were two editions of the game, one being a limited edition and the other being the normal release. Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure 2006. There are a lot of settings that you can change/tweak in the file named 'varspc' 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. Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure 2006. Go to your game directory and in the 'engine' folder open up 'defaultpc' 8.

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Availability[edit]

SourceDRMNotesKeysOS
Retail SafeDiscDRM[Note 1].
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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]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open default_pc.cfg.
  3. Change playlicensemovie = 1 to playlicensemovie = 0.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

SystemLocation
Windows <path-to-game>engine[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux)<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260190/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location[edit]

SystemLocation
Windows %PUBLIC%Documentsgetting up - contents under pressure
Steam Play (Linux)<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/260190/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

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Video settings[edit]

Graphics featureStateNotes
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).
WindowedBorderless 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+ FPSSee High frame rate.

Field of view (FOV)[edit]

Change FOV[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open vars_pc.cfg.
  3. Change defaultfov=65 to the desired value.

Windowed[edit]

Enable windowed[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open default_pc.cfg.
  3. Change fullscreen = 1 to fullscreen = 0.

High frame rate[edit]

Remove FPS cap[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open vars_pc.cfg.
  3. Change fpsLimit=60 and maxFPSLimit=60 to the desired value.

Input settings[edit]

Keyboard and mouseStateNotes
RemappingSee Remapping.
Mouse accelerationMouse acceleration is present. Can't be disabled.
Mouse sensitivitySee Mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menusLauncher only.
Mouse Y-axis inversionX-axis can also be inverted.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller supportSteam version launcher requires requires mouse input. Lacks Button promps.
Controller remappingSee Remapping.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversionX-axis can also be inverted.
Additional information
Button promptsKeyboard button prompts only.
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Remapping[edit]

Change keybinds[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open binds_pc.cfg.
  3. Keyboard controls are the top of the file. Controller controls are the lower two sections of the file.

Mouse sensitivity[edit]

This is to fix the insane mouse sensitivity to which there is no menu option to change it.
Mouse sensitivity[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>engine
  2. Open vars_pc.cfg.
  3. Change mousespeed=0.50000 (found roughly half way down) to a desired value. 0.2 and 0.15 work well.
  4. Save the file.

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Audio settings[edit]

Audio featureStateNotes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Ecko

Localizations

LanguageUIAudioSubNotes
English
French
GermanThe Steam version is available in German even though the store page says otherwise.
ItalianThe Steam version is available in Italian even though the store page says otherwise.

Changing the game's language[edit]

Edit default_pc.cfg[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>engine
  2. Open default_pc.cfg.
  3. Change 'language = os' to 'language = [desired language]' (replace [desired language] with ru, ru or whatever abbreviation necessary)
  4. Save the file
Change the OS language[citation needed]

Issues fixed[edit]

Access Violation Exception errors[edit]

Change Windows Compatibility Mode to Windows XP Service Pack 3[citation needed]

Jumpy camera during train car riding missions[edit]

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Cap the framerate to 30 for the duration of the levels

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Executable32-bit64-bitNotes
Windows

Middleware[edit]

Various engine options[edit]

Instructions[4][5][6]
  1. Go to Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure > Guides > Various engine options.
  2. Download Debug Patch to enable hidden DebugUI and Debug windows.

System requirements[edit]

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS)XPVista, 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

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  1. ↑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]
  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. ↑ 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

  1. ↑Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  2. ↑Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  3. ↑Steam Community :: Guide :: Skip logo/branding intros - last accessed on 2016-8-9
  4. ↑Marc Ecko’s Getting Up - Player option
  5. ↑Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure - Debug Console Enabler
  6. ↑Various engine options.