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Revision as of 21:49, 15 February 2017

The Suffering
The Suffering cover
Developers
Surreal Software
Midway Home Entertainment
Next Level Games
Publishers
Midway Games
Engines
Riot Engine
Release dates
Windows June 8, 2004
The Suffering on Wikipedia
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The Suffering
The Suffering 2004
The Suffering: Ties That Bind 2005

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc 3 DRM[Note 1] disc check.
Windows
Official website
Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
 Free release. Ad-supported. PCGamingWiki mirror
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1 is required for hackable widescreen support.

Opening the launcher

After the first time launching the game, the launcher won't show up again and you will be unable to configure the settings.
Instructions
Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.
Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Missing sound effects

Instructions

Glitchy enemies and NPCs AI

With frame rate higher than 60 there are many problems with AI of monsters and human characters. Game is possibly unfinishable with risk of certain NPCs not triggering some key cutscenes.[citation needed]
Instructions

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98SE, ME, 2000, XP 98SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Pentium III 1GHz Pentium 4 2GHz
System memory (RAM) 128 512
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2GB 2GB
Video card (GPU) 32MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.0 compatible 		64MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ 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]

References