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Yar's Revenge
Yar's Revenge cover
Developers
Killspace Entertainment
Publishers
Atari
Engines
Gamebryo
Release dates
Windows April 28, 2011
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Key points

Very limited in-game settings. Other settings such as resolution, display modes, and Vsync require tweaking the setting files manually.
Frame rate is capped at 35 FPS by default. See High frame rate to raise it.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
 Requires its steam_api.dll to run, but can be played without Steam.[1]
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\win32\AppSettings.ini[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\win32\Config.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/99120/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\win32\savegame.svg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/99120/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Windowed

Modify AppSettings.ini[2]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open AppSettings.ini with a text editor (e.g. Notepad).
  3. Find the ScreenWidth and ScreenHeight variables and set these values to match your desired resolution.
  4. Look for the line Fullscreen and set this to 0 to run the game in windowed mode.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Modify AppSettings.ini[2]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open AppSettings.ini with a text editor (e.g. Notepad).
  3. Find the line VSync and set this to 1 to enable Vsync.

High frame rate

Raise the frame rate cap in Config.ini[3]
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Config.ini with a text editor (e.g. Notepad).
  3. Find the line MaxFrameRate and raise its value to your desired frame rate.

Notes

Increasing the frame rate cap above your display's refresh rate can negatively impact mouse control.[4]

Input settings

Control settings.
Control settings.

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Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
Requires two controllers.
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Shader Model support 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Wwise
Interface Scaleform

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo
AMD Athlon X2 4400
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8600
Radeon ATI Radeon HD 2600
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. ↑ Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2020-02-18
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2020-02-18
  3. ↑ 60 fps - Steam Community Disucssions - last accessed on 2020-02-18
  4. ↑ Verified by User:AmethystViper on 2020-02-18
    Attempted to raise the frame-rate cap to 120 FPS on a 60Hz display caused mouse cursor movement to move slowly whereas mouse movement worked fine at 60 FPS. Cannot be certain if this is true for 120Hz displays with a 120 FPS cap.