Call of Juarez: Gunslinger

Call of Juarez
Call of Juarez	2006
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood	2009
Call of Juarez: The Cartel	2011
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger	2013

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is a singleplayer first-person shooter game in the Call of Juarez series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GamersGate

GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

Free trial

A demo is available.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use the `-nologos` parameter^[1]

Use intro skip^{[citation needed]}
Download the Call of Juarez: Gunslinger intro skip. Extract to `<path-to-game>\coj4\Data\Menu\Movies`.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\techland\cojgunslinger\out\Settings\Video.scr
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/204450/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\techland\cojgunslinger\out\
Steam	<Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/204450/remote/out/
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/204450/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud		Approx. 100 MB available.

Video

Graphics settings.

General settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution for custom resolutions.
Multi-monitor		Objects such as cover and ammo crates often aren't displayed until you get close, particularly problematic on enemies using doors as shields. The HUD is invisible for many users, though the cross-hairs are visible.^{[citation needed]}
Ultra-widescreen		HUD is not centered correctly, and certain HUD elements (i.e. boss life bars) may not display properly.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)	See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed	Set to borderless by playing in the Windowed mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)	See Anti-aliasing (AA).
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Edit Video.scr^{[citation needed]}
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Edit `Video.scr`. Find the `Resolution(YourWidth,YourHeight)` line and replace YourWidth and YourHeight with the desired values.

Field of view (FOV)

Edit Video.scr^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Edit Video.scr.
Add the following line at the end of the file, then replace YourFieldOfView with a value between 80 and 110 degrees (the default FOV is 82.72).

ForcedHorzFov(YourFieldOfView)

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Edit Video.scr^{[citation needed]}
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Edit `Video.scr`. Change the `Filtering` mode to one of the following (from the least to the most GPU intensive): `Bilinear`, `Trilinear`, `Anisotropic`, `AnisotropicTrilinear`.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Use Nvidia Profile Inspector^[2]

Download and run Nvidia Profile Inspector.
Find the Profiles field located on the top left corner and select Call of Juarez: Gunslinger from the drop down list.
Under Compatibility set Antialiasing compatibility to 0x000010C0 and Antialiasing fix to On.
Under Antialiasing set these settings to these values.

Antialiasing - Behaviour Flags to None.
Antialiasing - Mode to Override any application setting.
Antialiasing - Setting to 4x [4x Multisampling].
Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling to 4x Sparse Grid Supersampling.

5. Push the Apply changes button located on the top right corner.

Disable the hand-painted comic border

Edit Video.scr^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Edit Video.scr.
Add the following line at the end of the file.

DisableScreenBorder()

Disable letterboxing

Edit Video.scr^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Edit Video.scr.
Add the following line at the end of the file.

RenderViewportProportion(-1, -1)

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Allows for a specified smoothing level, including disabled.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		XInput only.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Not possible to remap every action to any button, but you can choose a few different presets.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Generic/other controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Rapidly changes button prompts.

Input settings, keyboard and mouse.
Keyboard remapping.
Input settings, controller.
Controller presets.

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, SFX, Speech, Narration & Movies
Surround sound		Up to 5.1.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech				Fan translation, download.
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Slovak				Fan translation, download.
Spanish
Ukrainian				Fan translation, download.

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Native 3D
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Call of Juarez Gunslinger.
vorpX		Z3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues fixed

Low FPS with CPUs with more than four cores

Set Affinity^{[citation needed]}
Run the game, alt-tab out and open Task-Manager Go to 'details' tab Find CoJGunslinger.exe Right-click, and select Set affinity. Unselect every core except the first four, go back to the game to see changes.

(Steam Version) Refusing to launch with CPU´s with more than 10 cores

Set Affinity from Steam.exe
Go to task manager and look for steam32bit and right click it then select go to details. Right click steam.exe, set affinity Untick every cores except 0 up to 10.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Mods

QOL Tweaks

Remove black borders, black bars (Letterbox), change the FOV, resolution, HD shadows, removal of the comic border and more.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3, Vista SP2, 7 SP1, 8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.0 GHz	Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5 GB
Video card (GPU)	512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	1 GB of VRAM DirectX 10 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/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>/204450/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (204450) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2021-11-12
Tested with the Steam version. Game launches fine and does not show intro videos, though it makes the game run poorly for a few seconds on startup.
↑ Call of Juarez: Gunslinger – An awesome budget game and FSAA on nVidia - last accessed on 9 June 2023

[Proton_path_note-2] 1.0 ^1.1 File/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>/204450/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (204450) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2021-11-12
Tested with the Steam version. Game launches fine and does not show intro videos, though it makes the game run poorly for a few seconds on startup.

[3] Call of Juarez: Gunslinger – An awesome budget game and FSAA on nVidia - last accessed on 9 June 2023

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Developers

	Techland
Engines
	Chrome Engine 5
Release dates
Windows	May 22, 2013
Reception
Metacritic	79
IGDB	75
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Shooter
Art styles	Comic book
Themes	North America, Historical, Western
Series	Call of Juarez