Bad Boys: Miami Takedown

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Released as Bad Boys II in Europe.

Frame rate is capped at 50 FPS. See the WSGF entry to fix.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc 3 DRM^{[Note 1]}

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\BB2Config.cfg^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor		See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen		See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD		See the WSGF entry.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS	Capped at 50 FPS. See the WSGF entry.
120+ FPS	See the WSGF entry.
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Enable compatibility settings^[3]
Go to the installation folder, right-click on BBpc.exe and click on Properties. Select the Compatibility tab. Tick "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" and select "Windows XP (Service Pack 3)" in the drop-down list. Tick "Run this program as an administrator". Click OK.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 600 MHz or equivalent	Intel Pentium III 800 MHz or equivalent
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	500 MB	1 GB
Video card (GPU)	Direct3D compatible 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 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).