El Matador
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| Developers | |
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| Plastic Reality Technologies | |
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| 1C Company | |
| Engines | |
| MAX-FX | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | September 25, 2006 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 54 |
| IGDB | 47 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Microtransactions | None |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Third-person |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Action, Shooter |
| Art styles | Realistic |
| Themes | Contemporary, South America |
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General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Retail | |
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| GamersGate | |
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| Green Man Gaming | |
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| Steam | |
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Game data
In-game general settings.
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | <path-to-game>\PROFILES\<user-id>\core.ini[Note 1] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289280/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %USERPROFILE%\TYPHOON\USERS\DEFAULT USER\SAVES\ |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289280/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| Steam Cloud |
Video
Launcher settings.
In-game video settings.
| Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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| Widescreen resolution | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
| Multi-monitor | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
| Ultra-widescreen | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
| Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Up to 16x. | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | Use El Matador FOV and HUD Fix. | ||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. | ||
Input
In-game input settings, page 1.
In-game input settings, page 2.
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support |
| Controller types |
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Audio
In-game audio settings.
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | ||
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| EAX support | EAX 5.0; no DirectSound3D support. |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Czech | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Brazilian Portuguese | Retail only - revista CD Expert / DVD Game release. | |||
| Russian | ||||
| Spanish |
Issues fixed
Low frame rate
- This removes the single core affinity (all CPU cores will be used).
| Use this file |
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Buggy Shadows
- Some of these patches must be applied for the shadow patch to work El_Matador_Centred_HUD.7z or El_Matador_Stretched_HUD.7z
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 9 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 2000, XP | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz | Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 1 GB |
| 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
- ↑ 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/289280/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (289280) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.