After 14 Years, Fan Patch Fixes PC Port Issues and Adds High-FPS Support to Alice: Madness Returns

Some PC ports perform poorly, and Alice is no exception.

Recently PC players have returned their attention to Alice: Madness Returns. A modder known as Wemino published an unofficial patch on GitHub called “MadnessPatch,” aimed at resolving many issues present in the game’s PC port.

Notable changes and improvements:

• Proper scaling of subtitle fonts (removes the 720p limitation).
• Numerous fixes for physics and gameplay issues that appeared at high frame rates (FPS).
• Resolves crashes and endless loading screens.
• Forces loading of high-resolution textures (the game previously loaded blurry textures first and sharpened them as you approached).

Before / After

• Disables mouse and gamepad acceleration.
• Adapts the game for widescreen and ultrawide monitors.

Before and after on a 21:9 monitor

• Cutscenes can be skipped with Enter instead of the jump key (Space).
• Option to run the game in windowed mode instead of fullscreen.
• Disables legacy Unreal Engine 3 driver “hacks” intended for very old graphics cards (pre-2010): these legacy tweaks can impede modern GPUs by forcing outdated rendering paths; disabling them lets the game run more efficiently on contemporary hardware.

Source: iXBT.games