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Revision as of 22:28, 29 August 2021

The Sting!
The Sting! cover
Developers
Neo Software Produktions
Publishers
JoWood Productions
Release dates
Windows July 1, 2001
Reception
Metacritic 73
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Continuous turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, First-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Puzzle, Simulation
Art styles Cartoon
Series The Clue!
The Sting! on HowLongToBeat
The Sting! on IGDB
The Sting! on MobyGames
The Sting! on Wikipedia
The Clue!
The Clue! 1994
The Sting! 2001

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM DRM
Windows
GamersGate
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\neoSoftware\TheSting!\Settings\

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Savegame\[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
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 and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Polish
Local retail version only.
Russian
Local retail version only.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95 / 98 / 2000 / Me
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 90 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX 8.0 compatible
Other 4x CD-ROM drive


Notes

  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