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Cryostasis

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Cryostasis
Cryostasis cover
Developers
Action Forms
Publishers
Steam 1C Company
North America Aspyr Media
Europe 505 Games
Japan Zoo Corporation
Engines
AtmosFear 4
Release dates
Windows February 27, 2009
Cryostasis on Wikipedia

Key points

This game supports Hardware PhysX and allows for additional PhysX effects on Nvidia cards.
The game is badly optimized and has numerous problems with performance, even on systems with specs way above recommended ones.[1]
Poor implementation of Shader Model 4.0. It's recommended to use Shader Model 2.0 or 3.0 instead.[2]

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

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A game used to be available on multiple platforms of digital distribution including GOG, Steam and GamersGate, but it was taken down - no reason has been given. People who bought the game on these platforms can still download and play the game.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7850/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7850/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

General settings.

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Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Windowed

Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Issues fixed

Noclip bug

A common problem that is encountered after saving in certain places and then reloading from that save point is the player will suddenly start clipping through walls and be unable to progress normally.
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista SP1
Processor (CPU) Intel Dual Core 2.0 GHz
Athlon 4000+
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6.5 GB
Video card (GPU) GeForce 7600
Radeon X1900

Notes

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

References