Sanitarium
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Developers | |
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DreamForge Intertainment | |
Publishers | |
XS Games | |
ASC Games | |
Retail (Russia) | Noviy Disk[1] |
Steam | DotEmu |
Engines | |
Asylum[2][3] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | April 30, 1998 |
Windows (ScummVM) | September 29, 2022[4] |
Linux (ScummVM) | September 29, 2022[4] |
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) | January 20, 2023[5] |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Perspectives | Isometric |
Controls | Point and select |
Genres | Adventure |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Horror |
Sanitarium is a singleplayer isometric adventure game.
General information
Availability
Version differences
GOG version
- Game version (press V while in game): Version 1.01 FINAL / Build 851
- Preconfigured with ScummVM.
- The latest GOG version does not include
sntrm.exe
, so ScummVM must be used.[6] (It is possible to revert to a previous version that includes it.) - Has Performance setting.
- Settings are stored in
<path-to-game>\sanitarium.ini
, saves in<path-to-game>\SAVES\
. - It is possible to load non-ScummVM saves. See Using classic saves with ScummVM for details.
DotEmu/Steam version
- Game version: Version v1.00 NDEMO / Build 849
- Has Fullscreen on/off switch.
- Fullscreen is pillarboxed 4:3, always uses desktop resolution.
- OpenGL API.
- Settings are stored in
UserDefault.xml
file, saves either in Steam Cloud folder or in%APPDATA%
.
Demo
- Demos are available from ScummVM.
Essential improvements
Peixoto's patch
- Not compatible with GOG.com version. However, ScummVM seems to address all of the listed issues.[6]
- 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 moved.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\DreamForge\Sanitarium\[Note 1] |
GOG.com | <path-to-game>\sanitarium.ini |
Steam | %APPDATA%\DotEmu\Sanitarium\ %PROGRAMDATA%\DotEmu\Sanitarium\ |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/[Note 2] |
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVES\[Note 3] |
Steam | %APPDATA%\DotEmu\Sanitarium\SAVES\<Localized EN>\ <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\284050\remote\<Localized EN>\ |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/284050/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
- ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|
Widescreen resolution | Native resolution is 640x480.[2] | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Press Alt+↵ Enter with ScummVM, or 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
Use the -w or -window command line argument[7]
|
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Remapping | Limited native support. Use ScummVM for full remapping. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
---|---|---|
Separate volume controls | Master, music, ambient, SFX, voice and cinematic. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
Czech | Fan translation. link #1 or link #2 | |||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Polish | Fan translation, download. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation. Download and guide — ScummBR or Steam Community. | |||
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] |
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Set the OS to use only 1 CPU[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
DirectDraw | 5.0 | |
OpenGL | Steam version only. |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
---|---|---|
Audio | OpenAL | Steam version only. |
Input | SDL | Steam version only. |
Cutscenes | Smacker Video Technology |
Using classic saves with ScummVM
Rename save files[6] |
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System requirements
Windows | ||
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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) | SVGA DirectX 5.0 compatible |
|
Sound (audio device) | 16-bit Sound Card | |
Other | 4X CD-ROM |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.11 | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4 GB |
Linux | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | Ubuntu 18.04 | |
Processor (CPU) | 1.8 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4 GB |
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
- ↑ Шизариум - last accessed on 2023-02-20
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sanitarium - ScummVM :: Wiki
- ↑ scummvm/configure.engine at asylum · alexbevi/scummvm - last accessed on 9 June 2023
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 GOG Database - Sanitarium - Release Notes - last accessed on 2022-10-25
- ↑ GOG Database - Sanitarium - Changelog - last accessed on 2023-02-03
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-10-25
- ↑ Windowed Mode, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023