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Revision as of 07:56, 10 April 2018

Second Sight
Second Sight cover
Developers
Free Radical Design
Publishers
Codemasters
Release dates
Windows February 4, 2005
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Second Sight guide on StrategyWiki
Second Sight on Wikipedia
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Key points

No longer sold digitally due to legal issues.[1]

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 StarForce 3.4.62.00 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions[4]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename the trailers folder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\secondsight.cfg[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11550/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\profiles\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11550/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Running the game in windowed mode may cause minor graphical issues.
Force windowed mode[citation needed]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix.
  2. Go to the installation folder.
  3. Create wndmode.ini.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Low frame rate

The game may initially run at a low frame rate, such as 38 FPS.
Restart your computer[5]
  • Restarting your computer fixes the low frame rate issue.

Black screen with some resolutions

Setting the resolution higher than 1024x768 using the in-game options may result in a black screen.
Use widescreen fix[citation needed]

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Although the in-game graphics option allows you to select 85 Hz, the game will not run higher than 60 Hz.
Set refresh rate manually[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open secondsight.cfg.
  3. Change scr_hz=60 to the screen refresh rate.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz		 Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB 1 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon 8500
Nvidia GeForce3 Ti200 		AMD Radeon 9000 series
Nvidia GeForce FX 5000 series

Notes

  1. ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[2][3] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References