Play Insomniac's 1996 PlayStation shooter Disruptor as a real Windows game.
60 fps · true widescreen · mouse and keyboard · sharp high-resolution graphics
🎬 Full trailer with sound: 720p (9 MB) · 1080p60 (100 MB)
| 🎯 Smooth 60 fps | The game draws twice as many frames as the original, while it still plays at its original speed. |
| 🖥️ Real widescreen | A true 16:9 view that shows more of the world. Menus and movies keep their original shape. |
| 🖱️ Mouse and keyboard | Aim with the mouse, move with WASD, switch weapons with the wheel. Controllers work too. |
| 🔍 Sharp graphics | Up to 4× resolution, steady polygons, straight textures and clean, crisp sprites. |
| 🎬 Better movies | Cutscenes fill your screen and are smoothed instead of blocky. |
| 💾 Savestates | Save anywhere with F7, alongside the game's normal memory-card saves. |
| ⚙️ A launcher with every setting | Change graphics, controls and more, and rebind any key or mouse button. |
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Captured in widescreen at 1920×1080 with the default settings.
- 🪟 A 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 PC with a graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.3 (almost any PC from the last 10 years).
- 📀 Your own copy of Disruptor for the PlayStation (USA version), as a disc image (
.binor.iso). - 💽 About 1 GB of free space during installation.
That's all. No emulator, no BIOS file, no extra tools.
Note
This download contains no part of the game. Setup builds the game on your PC from your own disc, which is why you need a copy of Disruptor.
- Download
DisruptorRecompiled-…-Setup.exefrom the Releases page. - Run it and pick your Disruptor disc image when Setup asks. If you have a
.cueand a.binfile, pick the.bin. - Wait about a minute while Setup builds the game from your disc. A progress bar shows each step.
- Play! Open Disruptor Recompiled from the Start menu and click PLAY DISRUPTOR.
Tip
Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" because the installer is new and not signed. Click More info → Run anyway.
Disruptor was written for the PlayStation's processor. This project translates the game's original program into code a Windows PC runs directly. That is why it's a real Windows game, not an emulator. Because the game belongs to its makers, the download only brings the translation tools and the improvements. Setup reads the program from your disc, translates it, builds it, and double-checks every step so you get exactly the tested game.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| PLAY DISRUPTOR | Starts the game. If the game still has to be built, it says BUILD THE GAME instead. |
| Settings | Every option, sorted into Display, Graphics, Controls, Audio and Advanced. |
| Controls | Shows what each key does and lets you change it. |
| Saves folder | Opens the folder with your memory cards and savestates. |
| Logs folder | Opens the logs. Attach these when you report a problem. |
The launcher checks your disc image each time it starts. Close it any time; the game keeps running.
Click an option (or use the arrow keys) to change it. Changes are saved right away and apply the next time you start the game. Restore defaults resets the page you're on.
🖥️ Display
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Window mode | Borderless fullscreen (recommended), windowed, or exclusive fullscreen. Alt+Enter switches while playing. |
| Window size | How wide the window is when you play windowed. |
| Widescreen 16:9 | Shows more of the world on wide screens. Turn off for the original 4:3 picture. |
| Vertical sync | Off gives the snappiest controls and suits G-SYNC/FreeSync screens. Turn on if you see tearing. |
| Low-latency input | Makes controls feel more direct. |
🎨 Graphics
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Internal resolution | How sharp the 3D world is drawn, from the original (1×) up to 4×. |
| Texture filtering | Smart smooths the world and keeps enemies, weapons and text crisp. Original pixels looks like the PlayStation. |
| Terrain seam blending | Hides the lines between ground tiles. |
| Close polygon gaps | Hides thin cracks between polygons. |
| Geometry correction | Stops the classic PlayStation wobble of polygons. |
| Perspective-correct textures | Stops textures on walls and floors from warping. |
| Movie smoothing | How the cutscenes are scaled up. |
| Enlarge movies | Makes cutscenes as big as your screen allows. |
| Screen style | Clean picture, or the colours of an old TV. |
| Scanlines | Adds TV scanlines. F6 turns them on and off while playing. |
| Smooth screen scaling | Softens the picture a little when it's stretched to your screen. |
🖱️ Controls
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Mouse look | Turn with the mouse. |
| Mouse sensitivity | How fast the view turns. |
| Smooth turning | Makes mouse turning perfectly smooth. |
| Mouse wheel selects weapons | Scroll to change weapons; hold R and scroll for psionic powers. |
| Controller | Use a gamepad together with keyboard and mouse, or keyboard and mouse only. |
| Stick deadzone | How far a stick has to move before it counts. |
| Keys and mouse buttons | Opens the Controls page. |
🔊 Audio
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Output sample rate | 44.1 or 48 kHz. Use keypad +/- to change the volume while playing. |
| High-quality sound processing | Slightly more precise sound mixing. |
🧪 Advanced
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Console CPU speed | 300% keeps busy scenes at a steady 60 fps. 100% is the original console. The game's speed doesn't change. |
| Frame interpolation (experimental) | Adds in-between frames for high-refresh monitors. |
| Fast-forward speed | How fast Tab fast-forwards. F9 keeps it on. |
| Show FPS counter | Shows the frame rate. F10 toggles it while playing. |
| Faster loading (experimental) | Shortens loading times. |
| Rebuild the game | Builds the game again from your disc, if something ever goes wrong. |
| Action | Keyboard and mouse |
|---|---|
| Move forward / back | W / S (or ↑ / ↓) |
| Strafe left / right | A / D |
| Turn | Mouse (or ← / →) |
| Fire / confirm | Left click or Left Ctrl |
| Psionic power | Right click or F |
| Change weapon | Mouse wheel |
| Change psionic power | Hold R + mouse wheel |
| Weapon / psionic list | Hold Q / R, step with W/S, release to pick |
| Pause | Enter or Esc |
In menus, W/S or the arrow keys move and Left Ctrl confirms. Controllers work out of the box.
To change a key: open Controls, click a slot, then press the key or mouse button you want. Delete clears a slot, Esc cancels.
| Hotkey | |
|---|---|
| F7 | Savestate menu (save and load anywhere) |
| Alt+Enter | Fullscreen on/off |
| Tab (hold) / F9 | Fast-forward / fast-forward on/off |
| F6 | Scanlines on/off |
| F10 | FPS counter on/off |
| Keypad + / - | Volume |
- 💾 Your saves live in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\DisruptorRecompiled\saves. The Saves folder button takes you there. - ⬆️ Updating: run the new Setup. It remembers your disc, keeps your settings and saves, and builds the new version.
- 🗑️ Uninstalling: use Windows Settings → Apps. Your saves and settings stay; your original disc image is never touched.
Tip
Savestates are handy, but keep using the game's own memory-card saves too. They carry over between versions.
Setup says my disc image isn't right
Only the USA version of Disruptor works. Pick the full .bin file (about 607 MB), not the .cue file or a zip archive.
Images converted to other formats (for example a 2048-byte .iso, .chd or .pbp) won't work. Make a fresh copy from your disc.
The build didn't finish
Open the launcher and click BUILD THE GAME to try again. If it fails again, click Logs folder and attach
build-last.log to a bug report.
The game doesn't start or closes
Update your graphics driver, then try again. If it keeps happening, attach game-last.log from the Logs folder to a
bug report.
It stutters or runs slowly
Lower Internal resolution in Settings → Graphics, and make sure Console CPU speed is 300%.
This is a release candidate: it's ready to play, and we'd love your help to find what's still wrong before the final release.
- 🐞 Found a bug? Open an issue and tell us the level, what you did and what happened. Attach the logs from the launcher's Logs folder.
- 🎮 Played through a level? Let us know it works, and which PC, graphics card and controller you used.
- 📸 Screenshots and videos of the game running are very welcome.
- 🧑💻 Developers: see CONTRIBUTING.md and docs/BUILDING.md.
- PSXRecomp, the tools that translate PlayStation games into native code.
- OpenBIOS from the PCSX-Redux project, the free replacement for the PlayStation BIOS.
- SDL, and the GCC and MinGW-w64 projects, whose tools build the game on your PC.
Disruptor was developed by Insomniac Games and published by Universal Interactive Studios. This is an unofficial, non-commercial fan project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the game's owners. It contains no game code, graphics, sound or other game data; you need your own copy of the game.
The project is shared under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0: free to use, share and change, but not to sell. Third-party licenses are included with the installer.