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Revision as of 16:59, 17 April 2021

Second Sight
Second Sight cover
Developers
Free Radical Design
Publishers
Codemasters
Release dates
Windows February 4, 2005
Second Sight guide on StrategyWiki
Second Sight on MobyGames
Second Sight on Wikipedia

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3.4.62.00 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
GOG.com (unavailable)
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Peixoto's patch

Forces the game to run at you desktop resolution - or higher - without shrinking the HUD\Menus

Skip intro videos

Instructions[3]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename the trailers folder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\secondsight.cfg[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11550/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\profiles\[Note 2]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/11550/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Running the game in windowed mode may cause minor graphical issues.
Force windowed mode[citation needed]
  1. Install ThirteenAG's fix.
  2. Go to the installation folder.
  3. Create wndmode.ini.

Input settings

Control settings.
Control settings.
Movement keybindings.
Movement keybindings.
Combat keybindings.
Combat keybindings.
Actions keybindings.
Actions keybindings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Low frame rate

The game may initially run at a low frame rate, such as 38 FPS.
Restart your computer[4]
  • Restarting your computer fixes the low frame rate issue.

Black screen with some resolutions

Setting the resolution higher than 1024x768 using the in-game options may result in a black screen.
Use widescreen fix[citation needed]

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Although the in-game graphics option allows you to select 85 Hz, the game will not run higher than 60 Hz.
Set refresh rate manually[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Open secondsight.cfg.
  3. Change scr_hz=60 to the screen refresh rate.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III
AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon 8500
Nvidia GeForce3 Ti200

Notes

  1. 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. 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).
  3. 3.0 3.1 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>/11550/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (11550) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References