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Safe Deposit: Widescreen and Renderer Fix for XIII (2003)

A widescreen, renderer and input fix for XIII (2003): any resolution, sharp menus, raw mouse, every setting inside the game.

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Safe Deposit launcher: install, update and settings for XIII

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What it is

A widescreen, renderer and input fix for XIII (2003), Ubisoft’s cel-shaded comic shooter. The look has aged well. The PC version hasn’t: 4:3 only, tiny menus at high resolutions, a mouse that floats, settings scattered across INI files. Getting it to run nicely on a modern PC is a chore.

Safe Deposit fixes that from the outside. It doesn’t replace a single game file, and uninstalling puts everything back the way it was. The name comes from the key to a safe deposit box at Winslow Bank, the first clue XIII has to who he is.

Safe Deposit launcher: install, update and settings for XIII
The launcher: install, update, settings.

What it does

  • Any resolution and aspect ratio, from 4:3 to 32:9, with Hor+ field of view: wider screens see more, nothing gets cut off
  • Borderless fullscreen, or a window you can resize and move freely while you play, without losing the aspect ratio
  • Render resolution independent of the window, upscaled with AMD FSR 1.0. Useful on 4K and 5K screens, or to save performance
  • Menus and HUD stay sharp and in place at any resolution. The HUD size is adjustable on its own
  • Menu fonts re-rendered in high resolution (comic sans be gone! (if you will))
  • Raw mouse input, 1:1 and without smoothing. In menus the cursor sits exactly under the Windows pointer
  • All settings inside the game: native entries in its own video and control menus that look and work like the originals, or an overlay on F10 if you prefer. In five languages
  • Text language switchable in the main menu
  • Optional 4 GB memory patch, automatic save game backups, intro logos skipped
  • One-click install and uninstall

See it in action

A short showcase of the tool and the game running with it. Screenshots of the launcher and the settings are further down.

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Safe Deposit launcher for XIII: install, update and display settings with FSR 1.0 upscaler and render scale
XIII profile menu running in a freely resizable window
XIII running in a small window in front of the Safe Deposit launcher
XIII video options with new entries for resolution, display mode, aspect ratio and upscaler
XIII advanced video menu: render scale, FSR sharpness, V-Sync, FPS cap, HUD size, anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasingView all 7 images

Under the hood

For the curious, in plain words:

  • Its own renderer. XIII speaks Direct3D 8, a graphics interface from 2001. Safe Deposit ships its own d3d8.dll that translates every call to Direct3D 9Ex and presents the image through a modern DXGI flip-model swap chain. That means low latency, VRR support (G-Sync, FreeSync), MSAA and 16× anisotropic filtering
  • Decoupled resolution. The engine believes it renders into a window of the internal resolution. The real window can be anything. In between sits the upscaler: FSR 1.0 (EASU and RCAS sharpening), Lanczos or bilinear
  • Virtual canvas. XIII’s interface was laid out for 640×480. A virtual canvas keeps that layout and maps it onto the real resolution, so a menu at 5K looks like it did in 2003, just sharp
  • Engine hooks. A small DLL hooks about 40 functions of Unreal Engine 2 while the game runs: window handling, field of view, input, menus. The extra menu entries are created through the game’s own UnrealScript functions, so they look and behave like the originals
  • Raw Input replaces the old DirectInput mouse path. The game gets the mouse movement unfiltered
  • Signed updates. The launcher only accepts updates signed with my key (ECDSA P-256) and checks every download (SHA-256)

Download

One download for everyone. With Plus you get the key that unlocks every feature, right next to the download.

Safe Deposit (XIII)

Gets XIII (2003) running properly on today’s PCs: any resolution, a freely resizable window, FSR upscaling and raw mouse input – all set inside the game.

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Download

  • Version 1.0 Free

    Windows 10/11 (32- and 64-bit) · .exe · 2.7 MB · Oct 20, 2026

    Checksum (SHA-256)

    0e7a57679da320c32b56ab78a96f97e4d1f366748b8a77e88e4d341d296d074d

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What you need

  • Your own copy of XIII (PC). Tested with the GOG release “1.0 update”; other versions may work, but I haven’t tested them
  • Windows 10 or 11

Run Safe Deposit.exe, click Install, play. If Defender complains: it’s safe, trust me bro. The SHA-256 is listed next to the download if you’d rather check.

Found something weird?

If something looks off or the game misbehaves, tell me. I’m always happy about testers.

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