Set after the events of the 1982 John Carpenter movie, The Thing is a squad based 3rd person shooter, where each member of your team is equipped with a range of weapons and items to help you in your quest to destroy The Thing.
You must use every player in the squad if you wish to proceed through each level, and once you find one of the thousands of alien creatures through-out the complex, weapons such as flame throwers, pistols and more come into play.
20 levels are on offer, with humans scattered around the area. But are they friend or an infected foe? Trust is the key to success.
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What you need to do: Change the Aspect Ratio and Resolution
16:10 - Hex Edit the TheThing.exe -> look for AB AA AA 3F and change it to CD CC CC 3F
Resolution - via Regedit -> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Computer Artworks\The Thing\1.0] look for "DisplayModeWidth" and "DisplayModeHeight" and put your des. Res. in
16:9 - Hex Edit the TheThing.exe -> look for AB AA AA 3F and change it to 39 8E E3 3F
Resolution - via Regedit -> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Computer Artworks\The Thing\1.0] look for "DisplayModeWidth" and "DisplayModeHeight" and put your des. Res. in
New solutions:
You can also download The Thing - Sui's wrapper from attachment to get widescreen. Extract the file from attachment to the game folder. Computer Atworks - The Thing - bin. Open d3d8 ini in the text editor for example notepad ++ and find these lines and set your resolution, for example:
Width = 2560
Height = 1440
You can also try set higher FOV (Default FOV is 60). I set FOV 90 but I didn't notice any changes.
About This File
Wrapper is only for 1.2 version of The Thing, that simplifies widescreen fixes, allows to run the game in windowed mode and configure FOV. files available from the PC Gaming Wiki Community Files (search there).
21:9 - Hex Edit the TheThing.exe -> look for AB AA AA 3F and change it to CD 90 18 40
Resolution - via Regedit -> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Computer Artworks\The Thing\1.0] look for "DisplayModeWidth" and "DisplayModeHeight" and put your des. Res. in
Use The Thing - Sui's wrapper Wrapper from attachment to get 4K Ultra HD.
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