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Sanitarium

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Sanitarium
Sanitarium cover
Developers
DreamForge Intertainment
Publishers
XS Games
ASC Games
Release dates
Windows April 30, 1998
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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

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

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Windowed

Instructions


Issues Fixed

Stop Crashes

  1. Restart windows to run with only 1 processor by pressing 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. Game should not crash. You will have to run msconfig and uncheck number of processors and restart to change back to using all CPUs.

Another Method Another option that works is to run cpugrab.exe then run the game.

Input settings

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Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Russian
Retail russian version only.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw 5.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Smacker Video Technology

System requirements

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

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References