F.E.A.R. has a bad and random tendency of giving the players a *disconnect bug* at the end of certain levels, notoriously **Flight** and **Urban Decay**. To fix this, you'd typically have to drop your *Texture Resolution* in-game setting to either *Minimum* or *Medium*, however it's important to mention that even with that setting set to either of these two, you can still get the disconnect bug, which is annoying af. And to properly fix all of this, I'd recommend patching your game using the 4GB patch in this resource.

All it does is increase the amount of possible allocated virtual memory to the game, because by default F.E.A.R. can't use more than 2GB of virtual memory, and if that happens you can also get an "Out of Memory" error which is really repulsive. The 4GB patch ensures that you *NEVER* get the disconnect bug ever again. Fortunately, the patch itself doesn't affect anything else inside the game (i.e. AI behavior, gameplay etc.)

**(25/11/2025) EDIT:** It turns out that it's still possible to get a **disconnect bug** with **Texture Resolution** set to **Maximum**. So it is advised to have that setting set at either *Minimum **or** Medium*. I'm happy to report that I got **0 disconnect bugs** with the Texture Resolution set to **Medium** ever since I used this patch.

**(24/03/2026) EDIT:** As it turns out, it's still possible to get a **disconnect bug** with **Texture Resolution** set to **Medium**, however I'm not sure about the *Minimum* setting. One thing worth noting is that the patch itself did make the disconnect bug become mega rare, and a word of advice is that you shouldn't spam any inputs during loading screens. Once the loading is fully done, only then you can press any key to continue and get in-game.

4GB Patch (version 1.0.0.1)

This dll file allows you to have proper framerate in F.E.A.R., as without it, the game will run at abnormal low FPS even on a modern system. The dll file can also be used for both expansion packs of the first game, as well as Condemned: Criminal Origins and other games that run on the Lithtech Jupiter EX engine which have this problem.

DirectInput FPS Fix

Here is the full 1.0 version of F.E.A.R.


Credits to Swartt for providing a drive link to it :D


F.E.A.R. 1.0 (Unpatched)

F.E.A.R. Split

The newest AutoSplitter for the Unpatched version. Allowed in runs as of August 1st, 2025.

**Note: Only works on version 1.0 of F.E.A.R.**

*Known Bugs*

The timer won't autostart if the run isn't reset in the menu before hitting "New Game" and "Low Difficulty" (or any other difficulty).

Latest ASL (v1.0 ONLY)

The new official load remover replacing Colon's old load remover from July of 2024. Allowed in runs as of September 7th, 2025.

**Note: Only works on version 1.08 of F.E.A.R. (Steam/GOG)**

*Known Bugs*

The timer won't autostart if the run isn't reset in the menu before hitting "New Game" and "Low Difficulty" (or any other difficulty).


Latest ASL (v1.08 ONLY)

The new official load remover replacing Rythin's load remover. Allowed in runs as of 26/7/24. (Outdated - please use the new load remover uploaded by Churp.)

Old Load Remover

Old load remover, kept in resources page for archiving purposes. Please instead use ColonSpeedrun's new load remover (integrated with livesplit automatically, or otherwise available as "New Official Load Remover" in the resources tab).

Spanish files for F.E.A.R.
Compatible with any version of the game.

All you need to do is extract the files to the root folder of the game :)

Name	Manager
Latest ASL (v1.0 ONLY) von ColonSpeedruns	Churp 9 months ago
Latest ASL (v1.08 ONLY) von ColonSpeedruns	Churp 9 months ago
Old Load Remover von ColonSpeedruns	Draiga 1 year ago
Old Load Remover von rythin	maxylobes 6 years ago

Name	Manager
4GB Patch (version 1.0.0.1) von Daniel Pistelli	Churp 10 months ago
DirectInput FPS Fix von Methanhydrat	Churp 5 months ago
F.E.A.R. 1.0 (Unpatched) von swartt	Churp 9 months ago
Spanish files von Churp	Churp 6 months ago