Difference between revisions of "Sanitarium"

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General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com
Steam

Demos are available from ScummVM.

Essential improvements

Peixoto's patch

Fixes multiple issues:

Allows nearest neighbor or xBRz scaling
Deinterlaced FMVs
Fixes jerky mouse movement in the menu
Fixes crashes on multicore processors
Fixes flicker on the mouse cursor when you move it around

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DreamForge\Sanitarium\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SAVES^{[Note 3]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Resolution is locked to 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Frame rate is limited to 30 fps.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Create a shortcut^[3]

Create a shortcut for <path-to-game>\sntrm.exe
Add the following command line to the target: -window or -w
Launch the game from the shortcut.

Notes

If the game becomes too slow after activating windowed mode add the following command line to the target: -e, which activates DirectDraw's emulation mode.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Limited.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master, music, ambient, SFX, voice and cinematic.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German				Retail and Steam only; download for GOG.com release.
Polish				Fan translation, download.
Russian				Retail Russian version only. Official localization by "Новый диск/Логрус" (ND/Logrus)
Russian				Unofficial translation by «Fargus Multimedia»
Spanish				Fan translation, download.

Issues fixed

Game crashes

Use CPUGrab^{[citation needed]}
Run CPUGrab. Run the game.

Set the OS to use only 1 CPU^{[citation needed]}
Press Windows Key+R, then type msconfig. Click on boot tab, then on advanced options. Checkmark number of processors and put it to 1. Press ok. Restart computer. Play Game. You will have to run msconfig and uncheck number of processors and restart to change back to using all CPUs.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DirectDraw	5.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL
Input	SDL
Cutscenes	Smacker Video Technology

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	30 MB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 5.0 compatible

Notes

↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/284050/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (284050) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ 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).

References

[HKLM-3] Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

[Proton_path_note-4] 2.0 ^2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/284050/.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (284050) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[3] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[4] Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/284050/.

[5] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[6] The app ID (284050) may differ in some cases.

[7] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[8] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[gamedir-5] 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).

[1] Sanitarium - ScummVM :: Wiki

[2] scummvm/configure.engine at asylum · alexbevi/scummvm

[6] Windowed Mode, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

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 ==Essential improvements==
-===[https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Peixoto Peixoto's patch]===
+===[https://www.patreon.com/user?u=44312848 Peixoto's patch]===
 {{++}} Fixes multiple issues:
 * Allows nearest neighbor or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel-art_scaling_algorithms#xBR_family xBRz scaling]

Developers

	DreamForge Intertainment
Publishers
	XS Games
	ASC Games
Digital	DotEmu
Engines
	Asylum^[1]^[2]
Release dates
Windows	April 30, 1998