Difference between revisions of "Shrek SuperSlam"

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Shrek
Subseries of DreamWorks
Shrek Game Land Activity Center	2001
Shrek 2 Activity Center: Twisted Fairy Tale Fun	2004
Shrek 2: The Game	2004
Shrek 2: Team Action	2004
Shrek SuperSlam	2005
Shrek the Third	2007
Shrek's Carnival Craze	2008
Shrek Forever After	2010

Warnings

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

Key points

Doesn't feature any video settings besides resolution.

Frame-rate is locked at 32 FPS out-of-the-box (unlike console versions), however, this FPS-cap can be removed with a modified .exe file.

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		CD-ROM used only for installation.
Retail		SafeDisc 4 DRM^{[Note 1]} European version only.

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

This game is not available digitally.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>/config.ini^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>/data/saves/(username)-ShrekSuperSlam.sav^{[Note 2]}

US versions only contain an English language option.

Upon selecting a resolution above 1280x960 and re-launching the game, it will crash during the loading screen right before the title screen.

Use Patched Executable
Download this patched executable and replace the original `shrek.exe` executable in <path-to-game> to fix the crashing issue. Editing the `config.ini` and setting the resolution manually may be necessary to change the resolution afterwards.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8	Minimal required DirectX version listed is 9.0c, however the game uses D3D8 for rendering.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Cutscenes	Bink Video

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 800 MHz AMD Athlon XP 1500 MHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1200 MB (900 MB plus 300 MB for the Windows swap file)
Video card (GPU)	3D hardware accelerator card 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible

↑ SafeDisc retail 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]
↑ ^2.0 ^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).

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 '''Key points'''
 {{--}} Doesn't feature any video settings besides resolution.
-{{ii}} Frame-rate is locked at 32 FPS out-of-the-box (unlike console versions), however, this FPS-cap can be removed with a [https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Shrek_SuperSlam&action=submit#Video_settings modified .exe file].
+{{ii}} Frame-rate is locked at 32 FPS out-of-the-box (unlike console versions), however, this FPS-cap can be removed with a [https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Shrek_SuperSlam#Video_settings modified .exe file].
 ==Availability==