The Saboteur

Not to be confused with Saboteur!.

The Saboteur

Developers
	Pandemic Studios
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Engines
	Odin
Release dates
Windows	December 8, 2009
Reception
Metacritic	76
IGDB	78
Taxonomy
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Open world
Vehicles	Automobile, Tank, Truck
Art styles	Realistic, Stylized
Themes	Europe, World War II

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM DRM disc check.
Amazon.com
GOG.com
Origin		Included with EA Play. SecuROM PA DRM, limited to five activations per machine.

Essential improvements

Origin to GOG patch

This patch updates Origin version of The Saboteur to GOG version. Patch only affects game's main executable. Download it here.

With this patch you'll get all the GOG fixes for your Origin release of The Saboteur: fixes for multi-core and map issues, plus enabled LAA.

Skip intro videos

Overwriting files
Use The Saboteur intro skip

Retail patches

The latest version for retail release is Patch 1.03b.

This patch may slightly improve any performance issues on ATI/AMD cards. GOG and Origin versions are already patched.

Large Address Aware

Allows the game to use more than 2 GB of RAM (already enabled in the GOG.com version, you do not have to patch it).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Saboteur™\SaveGames\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\The Saboteur™\SaveGames\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Origin
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.

Video

Configuration tool.

Video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			See the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor			See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen			See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD			See the WSGF entry.
Field of view (FOV)		See the WSGF entry.
Windowed		See Windowed.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Nvidia users can enable MSAA and SGSSAA by following this guide.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Double Buffered V-sync enabled by default. See Vertical sync (Vsync).
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Windowed

Edit config file
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open config.ini. Add Windowed 1 at the end of the file.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Edit config file
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open config.ini Change VSync 1 to Vsync 0 to disable V-sync.

Motion blur

Edit config file
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open config.ini. Change PostProcessing 1 to PostProcessing 0.

Input

The controls menu.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Both XInput and DirectInput.
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Edit InputTemplates.txt in the installation folder and in the configuration file(s) location.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Toggles

Instructions[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder. Edit InputTemplates.txt. At the end of the DEFAULT section, change the following settings to YES/NO. SPRINT_TOGGLE SNEAK_TOGGLE AIM_TOGGLE MELEE_STATE_TOGGLE MELEE_GRAB_TOGGLE

Audio

The audio menu.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, effects and voices.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian				Fan translation, ZoG.
Spanish				Fan translation, download.
Indonesian				Fan translation by IGTC Team, download.
Turkish				Fan translation by [1].

Languages can be changed by modifying entries under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\electronic arts\The Saboteur

Issues fixed

Game doesn't start on a windows 10/4+ core system

Download this fix Extract to installation folder The problem may still persist on Windows 10 x64 build 1803

Accessing the Stats screen and exiting the game crashes to desktop/freezes the game

Change resolution to 1920x1080

As a workaround to exit the game at higher than 1920x1080 resolutions, select the stats screen to force the game to crash to desktop and therefore exit without freezing the game at the exit prompt. If exiting normally at 4K resolution for example, a freeze occurs which can block access to the desktop requiring a system restart to regain control (saves are not impacted by this workaround). Set the game's resolution to 1920x1080 or less (1440p and higher causes these crashes)

Low performance on modern systems

Disable shadows
Open <path-to-game>\VideoSetup.exe. Disable the game's shadows in the options menu.

Disable Vertical sync (Vsync) for more consistent frame pacing[citation needed]

Set compatibility to Windows XP[citation needed]
Right-click on the launcher (or desktop icon). Set the compatibility to Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows XP (Service Pack 3). Notes On Windows setting the game's priority through the task manager to Real Time might help.[citation needed] Running the game with less cores will only end up with the game running even more poorly.

Broken map overlay

Fixed in the GOG.com release.

Install older drivers for Nvidia GPU's[citation needed]
Install older drivers versions for Windows Vista and 7 (64-bit), Windows Vista and 7 (32-bit) or Windows XP. Notes No need to uninstall current drivers, they can be simply overridden. Limited fix only up to the GTX 400 series.

Set lower resolution
Set the game's resolution to 720p or lower.

Game only runs at 640x480 resolution

If the refresh rate is set higher than 60 Hz, the resolution will always default back to the lowest settings

Change refresh rate[citation needed]
For running the game at higher than 60 Hz properly, see Run the game at screen refresh rate.

Set windowed mode[citation needed]
See Windowed.

Run the game at screen refresh rate

Fullscreen mode defaults to 60 Hz, even if the screen refresh rate is set higher than that.

Set screen refresh rate[citation needed]

Open VideoSetup.exe in the installation folder. Set refresh rate to 60 Hz or less. Install Special K by following the Special K Unofficial Guide. Manual local installation may work better. Start the game once and close it to allow the configuration file of Special K to be created. Open <path-to-game>\d3d9.ini or %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Profiles\Saboteur.exe\SpecialK.ini depending on the installation method you used. Change RefreshRate=-1 to RefreshRate=0 under [Render.FrameRate].

"The Saboteur is unable to continue due to an error initializing your graphics hardware."

Set windowed mode[citation needed]
See Windowed.

Game freezes when opening certain messages from other characters

Set windowed mode. Alternatively, try changing Vsync and refresh rate.
See Windowed. Notes The game auto saves after a (properly) opened message is closed, so you can quit the game and revert the changes before meeting the sender. Windowed mode can be disabled by adding "//" before it in the config.ini file (//Windowed 1) or changing to Windowed 0.

Controller incorrectly mapped

Instructions[citation needed]
Download The Saboteur - Controller Remapping Fix. Copy the file to the installation folder and overwrite. Notes Alternatively, go to the installation folder, open InputTemplates.txt and remove alternative pad then save.

Xbox 360 Controller camera control fix

Instructions[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder. Open InputTemplates.txt. Look for a section called OTHER GAMEPAD. Change SOLDIER_TURN_LEFT from JOYSTICK_STICK2_LEFT to INPUT_NONE. Change SOLDIER_TURN_RIGHT from JOYSTICK_STICK2_RIGHT to INPUT_NONE. Go to the configuration file(s) location. Repeat this process for InputTemplates.txt.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
Shader Model support	3

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP	Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 1.86 GHz	AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Core Intel Core 2 Quad Q6850 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	7 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon HD 2600 Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	ATI Radeon HD 3800 Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512 MB of VRAM