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Shadow Company: Left For Dead

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Shadow Company: Left For Dead
Shadow Company: Left For Dead cover
Developers
Sinister Games
Publishers
Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows October 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Africa
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Warnings

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected releases).

Shadow Company: Left For Dead is a singleplayer bird's-eye view strategy game.

The game has compatibility issues on modern systems; see Issues fixed.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc v1 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).

Essential improvements

Patches

Latest v1.31 patch can be found at The Patches Scrolls.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Sinister Games\Shadow Company

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save\[Note 2]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Game does not run on Windows 10

Use dgVoodoo 2.
  1. Download dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe and dgVoodoo.conf to <path-to-game>.
  3. Extract D3D8.dll, D3DImm.dll and DDraw.dll from the \MS\x86 subfolder to <path-to-game>.
  4. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe, go to the "DirectX" tab and uncheck the box for "dgVoodoo Watermark".

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium MMX
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU) 1 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. ↑ This version of SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. ↑ 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