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Silent Storm
Silent Storm cover
Developers
Nival Interactive
Publishers
JoWooD Entertainment
Nordic Games
Release dates
Windows November 7, 2003
Silent Storm on Wikipedia

Key points

Digital releases fix issues caused by 64-bit OSs using 4+ GB RAM.[1][2]
Retail releases have shadow and reflection issues on modern GPUs.[3][4] See Incorrect shadows and reflections.
Make sure to run the game as an administrator. See Privilege Level.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Template:Availability Table

The Gold Edition contains both Silent Storm and it's expansion Sentinels.
Demo versions are available for Silent Storm and Sentinels.

Essential improvements

Instructions

Patches

German versions of the patches are also included along with editor patches.

Silent Storm

Patches the game up to version 1.2.

Silent Storm Sentinels

Patches the game up to version 1.1.

Silent Storm

Unofficial Steam patch

Fixes some game breaking issues near the end of the game.
Comes with an already included d3d9.dll which fixes the shadow issues.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254960/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254960/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Windowed

Instructions

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

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Issues fixed

Unsupported video card

A cracked executable is required for these fixes.
This is only needed for the retail versions of the game.

Simple fix

Instructions

Hex editing

Instructions

Incorrect shadows and reflections

Huge performance hit on Nvidia videocards, even though it works fine on ATI cards.

Unnoficial Steam patch

Instructions

WineD3D

The game might simply lockup on certain setups, poor performance overall.
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) 800 MHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References