Shadow Complex Remastered

Key points

In-game settings are fairly limited, with several common options requiring tweaking the settings file manually. Including Anisotropic filtering (AF) and Motion Blur.

General information

Official game page

Steam Community Discussions

Official forum

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		See how to skip using the launcher here.
Mac App Store
Microsoft Store
Steam

Game data

In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Shadow Complex\EmpireGame\Config\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/385560/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Shadow Complex\EmpireGame\<user-id>
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Steam	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Shadow Complex\<user-id>
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/385560/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video settings

In-game video settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Aspect ratios other than 4:3, 16:9, and 16:10 have skewed gameplay without this fix.

Fix aspect ratio constraint^[3]
Edit `%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Shadow Complex\EmpireGame\Config\EmpireEngine.ini` Change `AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainXFOV` to `AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV` Save your changes and close the file.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Anisotropic Filtering is set to 4x by default with no in-game way to modify it.

Edit EmpireSystemSettings.ini^{[citation needed]}
Go to `%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Shadow Complex\EmpireGame\Config\` Edit `EmpireSystemSettings.ini` Change `MaxAnisotropy=` to a number between 0-32 (higher numbers equal more filtering).

Disable Motion Blur

Edit EmpireSystemSettings.ini^[4]
Go to `%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Shadow Complex\EmpireGame\Config\` Edit `EmpireSystemSettings.ini` Change `MotionBlur=True` to `MotionBlur=False` Change `MotionBlurPause=True` to `MotionBlurPause=False` Change `MotionBlurSkinning=1` to `MotionBlurSkinning=0`

Disable ambient occlusion

Edit EmpireSystemSettings.ini^{[citation needed]}
Go to `%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Shadow Complex\EmpireGame\Config\` Edit `EmpireSystemSettings.ini` Change `AmbientOcclusion=true` to `AmbientOcclusion=false`

High frame rate

Change frame rate smoothing^{[citation needed]}

Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Shadow Complex\EmpireGame\Config\
Edit EmpireEngine.ini
Search and change bSmoothFrameRate to FALSE or raise MaxSmoothedFrameRate value.
Save file and make it "read only".

For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.

Input settings

In-game control settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Simplified Chinese
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision		See Helix Mod: Shadow Complex Remastered.
vorpX		G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9, 11
OpenGL		macOS/OS X only.
Shader Model support	3, 5

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX

Skip launcher

Achievements, Cloud Saving and Leaderboards will be disabled.

Some modified settings such as alternative key remappings and anti-aliasing always revert to default upon launch with this fix.^[5]

Instructions^[6]
Use the command line arguments `-AUTH_LOGIN= -AUTH_PASSWORD= -AUTH_TYPE=` Add exe to outbound rules in firewall.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	8, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo AMD Athlon II X2	Intel Core i5 AMD A4 Series
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 7800 ATI Radeon HD 4600 Intel HD 4000 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3 support	Nvidia GeForce GT 540 ATI Radeon HD 5550 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible Shader model 5 support

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.10.5	10.11
Processor (CPU)	2.5 GHz Dual-Core	2.0 GHz Quad-Core
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.3 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 670M 1 GB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 750M 2 GB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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>/385560/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (385560) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Shadow Complex Remastered coming to PS4, Xbox One; free download on PC right now | Polygon - last accessed on 2015-12-04
↑ Shadow Complex Remastered is Now on Mac App Store! - Steam Game News
↑ Shadow Complex Remastered | WSGF
↑ Verified by User:AmethystViper on September 19, 2016
Has disabled Motion Blur without the game crashing on start-up by using these settings.
↑ Verified by User:AmethystViper on December 21, 2018
I made some changes to use "Best" anti-aliasing with some changes made to my controller and key remapping, closed the game, launched it again at a later time, and then discovered my settings reverted back to default after using this fix on the Epic Games version. Any help to fix this problem would be appreciated with workaround.
↑ Kopert comments on [Configuration] GUIDE: Shadow Complex Remastered

[Proton_path_note-3] 1.0 ^1.1 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>/385560/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (385560) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[freedownload-1] Shadow Complex Remastered coming to PS4, Xbox One; free download on PC right now | Polygon - last accessed on 2015-12-04

[2] Shadow Complex Remastered is Now on Mac App Store! - Steam Game News

[4] Shadow Complex Remastered | WSGF

[5] Verified by User:AmethystViper on September 19, 2016
Has disabled Motion Blur without the game crashing on start-up by using these settings.

[6] Verified by User:AmethystViper on December 21, 2018
I made some changes to use "Best" anti-aliasing with some changes made to my controller and key remapping, closed the game, launched it again at a later time, and then discovered my settings reverted back to default after using this fix on the Epic Games version. Any help to fix this problem would be appreciated with workaround.

[7] Kopert comments on [Configuration] GUIDE: Shadow Complex Remastered

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Developers

	Chair Entertainment
	Epic Games
Windows	Hardsuit Labs
Publishers
	Epic Games
Engines
	Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows	December 3, 2015^[1]
macOS (OS X)	August 4, 2016^[2]