No One Lives Forever Modernizer

About

The Operative: No One Lives Forever is a first-person shooter developed by Monolith Productions and released for Windows in 2000. No One Lives Forever Modernizer is a Windows patch for the original NOLF that fixes long-standing bugs and performance issues and adapts the game to larger resolutions. It adds working out-of-the-box multiplayer, a 60fps frame cap, a fixed mouse stutter, HUD scaling and a jukebox, supports the Game of the Year edition, and requires an installed copy of the game.

How it differs from the original

Beyond the fixes, it adds a developer console, many new config options (HUD scale, framerate lock, 4:3 cinematics, quick weapon switching), a windowed-mode toggle, anisotropic filtering, a jukebox and a "Big Head Mode". GameSpy was patched out of servers and the server browser, and the master server now points to openspy.net.

Getting started

Download a release and install it over your copy of NOLF; the Visual C++ 2019 redistributable is required. Intel HD graphics users should enable the "Intel HD Graphics Fix" in Display options to avoid black screens underwater.

Known issues & limitations

• compatibility: Non-QWERTY keyboard layouts are not properly supported due to Lithtech engine limitations.
• features: Controller support is bare bones and only partially implemented during gameplay.

Media

Licensing & legal

• The code remains bound to the original EULA from the No One Lives Forever Source Code v1.003.

Additional notes

Compatibility

The author does not recommend using DGVoodoo2 with the patch, citing severe framerate drops with dynamic lights.