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El Matador

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El Matador
El Matador cover
Developers
Plastic Reality Technologies
Publishers
1C Company
Release dates
Windows September 25, 2006
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General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\PROFILES\<user-id>\core.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289280/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\TYPHOON\USERS\DEFAULT USER\SAVES
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289280/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
French
German
Italian
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Low Framerate

The game starts only using one CPU core.
Set the program affinity
  1. While the game is running, alt-tab, and open Task Manager. Make sure you click the 'More details' arrow to show the full Task Manager.
  2. Go to the 'Details' tab, and find the process 'pc_matador.exe'
  3. Right click the process, and select 'Set affinity'.
  4. Check the box for '<All Processors>', and click OK.
This has to be done every time the game is launched.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 - 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 - 2.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1024 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 4
Ati Radeon 8500
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible 		Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT
Ati Radeon 9800 Pro
256 MB of VRAM
Shader model 2.0 support

Notes

  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).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References