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Revision as of 10:57, 8 February 2015

The Showdown Effect
The Showdown Effect cover
Developers
Arrowhead Game Studios
Publishers
Paradox Interactive
Engines
Bitsquid
Release dates
Windows March 5, 2013
macOS (OS X) March 5, 2013
The Showdown Effect on Wikipedia

Key points

The game features the ability to stream directly to Twitch.
Due to severe lag compensation in multi-player games and reliance on P2P hosting instead of using dedicated servers, players with higher ping are likely to warp around the map and simultaneous kills may happen.

General information

Steam Community Discussions
Official forum
Official website

Availability

All versions require Steam.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/204080/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/204080/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Additional settings

Further configuration options can be found in the config file.
Instructions

Input settings

Input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Issues unresolved

Freezing on OS X

Freezes randomly on OS X.[1] The issue still hasn't been addressed in recent updates.

Issues fixed

Game crashes on start-up

Instructions
Instructions

Black screen on launch

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 10
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) nVidia GeForce 9800
ATi Radeon HD 2600 XT
512 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) 2.4 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) nVidia GeForce 9800
ATi Radeon HD 2600 XT
512 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References