Silver
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Developers | |
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Infogrames UK | |
Spiral House | |
Digital release updates | THQ Nordic |
Publishers | |
1999-2003 | Infogrames |
2003-2013 | Atari |
2013-2016 | Nordic Games |
2016-present | THQ Nordic |
Release dates | |
Windows | May 1999 |
Mac OS (Classic) | August 2000 |
macOS (OS X) | June 2, 2017[citation needed] |
Linux | June 2, 2017[citation needed] |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Cinematic camera |
Controls | Multiple select |
Genres | JRPG |
Art styles | Stylized |
Themes | Fantasy, Steampunk |
Warnings
- The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Silver is a singleplayer cinematic camera JRPG game.
General information
Availability
Essential improvements
Peixoto's patch
- Get the game running on Windows 10 with nearest neighbor or xBRz scaling
Skip intro videos
Delete/rename video files[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME\SILVER.OPT[Note 1] %APPDATA%\THQNordic\Silver\SAVEGAME\SILVER.OPT |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | $XDG_DATA_HOME/THQNordic/Silver/silver.opt |
Mac OS (Classic) |
- First path is used by Retail version and second one by Digital re-release
- This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\SAVEGAME[Note 1] %APPDATA%\THQNordic\Silver |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | $XDG_DATA_HOME/THQNordic/Silver/*.sav |
Mac OS (Classic) |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud | Linux Steam cloud saves are stored at $HOME/.local/share/THQNordic/Silver , but the game actually uses $XDG_DATA_HOME/THQNordic/Silver |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | 640x480 only, but the THQ Nordic version allows for various degrees of filtered upscaling and stretching. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
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 |
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Separate volume controls | Sound effect, music and speech. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Go to Options\Preferences and set Dialogue option to "Text & Speech" | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | Retail, GOG.com & Steam releases. | |||
Portuguese | Retail only | |||
Russian | Collection of unofficial localizations and review: 1) «Da CrewCuts Studios» / «Русский проект» 2) «7Wolf» 3) «Fargus/Фаргус» GOG Russian presumably «Da CrewCuts Studios». |
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Spanish |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 6 | Pre-THQ Nordic versions only. |
OpenGL | 1.4 | THQ Nordic version only.[1] |
Executable | PPC | 16-bit | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||||
macOS (OS X) | This 32-bit-only macOS game does not work on macOS Catalina (10.15) or later. | ||||
Linux | |||||
Mac OS (Classic) |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 166 MHz | Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 2 MB of VRAM OpenGL 2.0 compatible DirectX 6.1 compatible | 4 MB of VRAM |
Mac OS | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 9.0 | |
Processor (CPU) | PowerPC 7 PowerPC G3 |
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System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.7 Lion | |
Processor (CPU) | 1 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | OpenGL 2.0 compatible |
Linux | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | Ubuntu and SteamOS | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel 1 0.4 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 256 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 4 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | OpenGL 2.0 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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).
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Expack3 on 2020-10-02
- THQ Nordic version uses OpenGL as indicated by the game's shaders folder using GLSL-formatted files, and the given version number used within all these shaders is 140 (1.4.0)