Crackdown Recomp

About

Crackdown Recomp is an unofficial native PC port of Crackdown. It is not an emulator: the game's original Xbox 360 code is translated ahead of time (static recompilation) into a native Windows program, then fixed and extended for modern PCs. A launcher installs the game from your own disc dump, checks every file, keeps your settings and updates itself.

The repository contains no game data. You need your own copy of Crackdown.

Features in 1.0

60 fps by default	Smooth gameplay with the game's physics, driving, stairs and audio fixed to match the original 30 fps timing. 30 fps is one click away.
Fast	The renderer's work is split across threads and repeated per-draw work is skipped. On an RTX 5080 at 1080p uncapped, the spawn point went from about 65 to 110 fps and camera pans from about 80 to 130+.
Graphics options	Internal resolution up to 4K, FXAA and texture filtering, in the launcher's GRAPHICS tab or the new PC Settings page in the game's own menus.
Ultrawide	Aspect ratios 16:9, 16:10, 21:9, 32:9 and 4:3. Wider ratios show more of Pacific City instead of stretching the picture.
Mouse and keyboard	Full mouse look and rebindable keys, plus any Xbox-style controller. A camera turn speed slider (0.25x to 4x) works for both.
Co-op	Two-player campaign over System Link between two PCs, set up from the launcher (Host or Join).
Archipelago randomizer	Join an Archipelago multiworld: orbs, supply points, weapon deposits and bosses hold items for every player in the room.
10 languages	Pick the game's language in the launcher (the disc may not include all of them).
Save profiles and portable mode	Separate save profiles, or keep saves next to the game on a USB drive.
Quality of life	F3 fps counter, F11 fullscreen/window toggle, skippable boot logos, one-click updates that keep your saves and settings.

Screenshots

Driving at 60 fps	Pacific City streets

Ultrawide without stretching. The same moment at 21:9: the extra width shows more of the city.

The launcher installs, verifies and updates the game	GRAPHICS tab: resolution, aspect ratio, FXAA, texture filtering

_{The new PC Settings page in the game's own menus}

Get started

1. Download CrackdownRecomp-1.3.0.zip from the latest release and extract the whole ZIP into a folder you can write to (for example Documents\CrackdownRecomp).
2. Run CrackdownLauncher.exe and choose Install game. Select your Crackdown ISO (or a folder of extracted files). The launcher extracts and verifies it.
3. Press Play.

The full guide, including Windows warnings, mouse and keyboard controls, co-op and the randomizer, is in SETUP.md.

Requirements

OS	Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Steam Deck and Linux players report it runs under Proton (notes).
CPU	x64 with AVX2 and FMA3 (most Intel since 2013, AMD since 2015)
GPU	DirectX 12
Runtime	Microsoft Visual C++ x64 Redistributable
Game	Your own dump of the Crackdown World multi-language disc (ISO, XISO or extracted folder)

Controls at a glance

Key	Action
F3	Show or hide the fps counter
F11	Switch between fullscreen and a window
W A S D, mouse	Move and look (turn on Mouse / keyboard mode in the launcher's CONTROLS tab)

Full key map: SETUP.md → Mouse and keyboard.

Known issues

• Windows may refuse to start it with 0xc0e90002 ("This app can't run on your PC"). That is Smart App Control blocking unsigned programs; see SETUP.md → Windows warnings.

Roadmap

• 1.2: DLC support (the Four-Play Pack, and the Free-For-All Pack with Keys to the City and Street Racing through Title Update #6), co-op at 60 fps, ultrawide and forced V-Sync fixes.
• 1.3: 120 and 144 fps, and the Archipelago randomizer on the title update.
• Native Linux: requested, no plan or date yet. Proton works today.

For developers

Path	What's there
crackdown/src	Game hooks and runtime fixes on top of the ReXGlue SDK (submodule sdk/, pinned to a release)
patches/sdk	SDK fixes, applied by build-and-run.bat / tools/apply-sdk-patches.sh
crackdown/launcher	The launcher and installer
docs/	Build playbook (docs/playbook.md), reverse-engineering notes (docs/re-notes.md), the 60 fps audit and design plans

The recompiled C++ is generated locally from your own default.xex; neither it nor any game file is committed. Building from source is covered in the playbook.

Legal

Crackdown Recomp is an unofficial fan project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft, Xbox Game Studios or Realtime Worlds. Crackdown and all related names and assets belong to their owners. No game data is distributed; you must own the game and supply your own disc dump.

The source code is released under the BSD-3-Clause license, see LICENSE. Third-party code keeps its own notices (tools/launcher-NOTICES.txt, sdk/LICENSE).