Hammer & Sickle
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Developers | |
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Nival Interactive | |
Novik&Co | |
Publishers | |
Cdv Software Entertainment | |
Engines | |
Silent Storm Engine | |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 9, 2005 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 52 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Genres | Tactical RPG |
Themes | Cold War, Europe |
Series | Silent Storm |
Silent Storm | |
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Silent Storm | 2003 |
Hammer & Sickle | 2005 |
Warnings
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected versions).
Hammer & Sickle is a singleplayer Tactical RPG game in the Silent Storm series.
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
---|---|---|---|---|
Retail | StarForce 3.5 DRM[Note 1] | |||
Retail | Czech Extra Klasika release by CD Projekt |
- StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).
Essential improvements
Patches
- Patch 1.1 is the last patch for the game.
Unofficial English Patch 1.15 (H&S)
- Fixes some game-breaking issues.
- Turns other language releases to English.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\cfg\[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\save\[Note 2] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | None, x2, x4, x8, x16 | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Cannot be disabled (Low, Medium, High, Very high) | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | Edit <path-to-game>\cfg\s3input.cfg |
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Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Invert Turn X & Y, Invert Scroll X & Y | |
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sound, Music, Character Responses mutable | |
Surround sound | Dolby Surround 5.1 | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
German | ||||
Polish | ||||
Czech | Retail Extra Klasika release by CD Projekt | |||
Russian |
Issues fixed
Unsupported video card
WineD3D
- The game might simply lockup on certain setups, poor performance overall.
Put WineD3D components in root installation folder[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 9 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
---|---|---|
Cutscenes | Bink Video |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98 | 2000, ME, XP |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 3 1 GHz | Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce2 MX ATI Radeon 9000 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9 compatible | Nvidia GeForce 3 ATI Radeon 9700 128 MB of VRAM |
Other | Double-speed (2x) CD-ROM Drive |
Notes
- ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11.[1][2] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
- ↑ 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).