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Sanitarium

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Sanitarium
Sanitarium cover
Developers
DreamForge Intertainment
Publishers
XS Games
ASC Games
Engines
Asylum[1][2]
Release dates
Windows April 30, 1998
Reception
IGDB 92
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Sanitarium on Wikipedia

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows

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) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

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

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Create a shortcut[3]
  1. Create a shortcut for <path-to-game>\sntrm.exe
  2. Add the following command line to the target: -window or -w
  3. 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 settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
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]
  1. Run CPUGrab.
  2. Run the game.
Set the OS to use only 1 CPU[citation needed]
  1. Press Windows Key+R, then type msconfig. Click on boot tab, then on advanced options.
  2. Checkmark number of processors and put it to 1. Press ok. Restart computer. Play Game.
  3. 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
Cutscenes Smacker Video

System requirements

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

Notes

  1. 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. 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>/284050/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (284050) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  3. 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